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Clean Truck Program * USA - Tacoma Gets One, but No Clean Truck Fees
Tacoma,CAL,USA -The Cunningham Report - 22 March 2009: -- Port of Tacoma Commissioners have adopted a voluntary truck emissions improvement program that is free of fees associated with the Clean Truck Programs in Southern California... Tacoma officials have said repeatedly that they want to avoid the kinds of fees established at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, which they believe would drive business away from Puget Sound. Drayage trucks serving the heavily intermodal port contribute only one percent of the diesel particulate emissions in the Puget Sound region... Under the program adopted last week, the port will implement a series of practices to encourage independent truckers and trucking companies to modernize their fleets...* Court ruling deals setback to California clean trucks scheme
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Lloydslist (UK), by Rajesh Joshi -23 March 2009: -- An Appellate Court Verdict in California has dealt a significant setback to the clean-trucks programme introduced by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach... The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the lower district court, in a decision handed down last year, made an error in not allowing the American Trucking Associations’ request for an injunction, which would have prevented the implementation of concession requirements included in the programme.
Agreeing with a different issue raised during the course the appeal, the Circuit Court held that the concession agreements improperly attempted to regulate the price, route, and service of a motor carrier in violation of federal law... However, the Circuit Court has left it up to the district court to decide whether the concession agreements are to be enjoined, that is, prevented entirely or only in portions that are pre-empted by federal law and are illegal...
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