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CLEAN TRUCKS * USA - LA container fees set to go this week
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -17 Feb 2009: -- The planned container collection fee at the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach will start being collected this Wednesday, Feb. 18... The Federal Maritime Commission cleared the plan to proceed -- for now -- but warned that it will keep a close eye on the process... The money from the fees ($35 for a twenty-foot container) -- to be collected by PortCheck -- will go towards helping truckers retrofit older trucks under the ports' Clean Trucks programs... Critics also insist that the fees and the Clean Port program will deter shippers away from the ports...
* NRS Deploys Clean Truck Fleet
Washington,DC,USA -Traffic World, by John Gallagher -17 Feb 2009: -- Trucking and logistics company National Retail Systems will be plying the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with 115 new trucks that fully comply with the ports' Clean Truck Program... The new trucks, with engines that meet 2007 Environmental Protection Agency pollution mitigation standards, will allow NRS customers to avoid a $70 per 40-foot container fee required by the ports beginning Feb. 18... NRS, along with other large carriers participating in the CTP such as Swift Transportation and Knight Transportation, was able to offset the cost of its investment by $30,000 per truck provided by the ports as an incentive to bring fully compliant trucks into the program...
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