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Clean Trucks & Fees * USA - LA/LB's one Could End Within Year
Private financing covers purchases of most clean trucks
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluso -5 March, 2009: -- The unpopular clean-truck fees that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began collecting two weeks ago could be ended within a year if motor carriers continue to finance the purchase of environmentally-friendly trucks with private money... Revenue from the $35 per-TEU fee is intended to subsidize motor carriers that purchase 2007 model or newer trucks that comply with the emissions requirements in the ports' clean-truck program... Since last fall, however, motor carriers have entered into harbor service about 3,000 trucks that comply with the ports' diesel emissions regulations. Many of the trucks were purchased with private capital, while only a fraction of the new trucks were purchased with subsidies through the ports' clean truck center... The fees are charged directly to cargo interests that send non-compliant trucks to the harbor. The Federal Maritime Commission charged that certain exemptions in the fee program are non-competitive. The FMC delayed implementation of the fees for several months and has sought a temporary injunction against the fees in litigation before the U.S. District Court in Washington... Port officials concede that the fee program has never been popular... (Photo: Examining a compliant truck)* SoCal Ports Face Dray Truck Scramble - LA-Long Beach ports must replace 7,500 older trucks in next 10 months
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Mar 11, 2009: -- The harbor trucking community in Southern California will have to scramble to replace or retrofit about 7,500 trucks over the next 10 months in order to meet the next deadline in the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-truck program... Port representatives who addressed the Los Angeles Transportation Club March 10 conceded that the next deadline will be more challenging because a much larger number of trucks will have to be replaced... While the precise number is not known, it could total 7,500 to 8,000, which would be a rather large percentage of the existing harbor drayage fleet, said Tom Jelenic, assistant director-environmental, at the Port of Long Beach. At its peak, the harbor drayage fleet totaled about 16,800... Motor carriers with newer trucks that wish retrofit their vehicles at a cost of about $20,000 each face rather than pay $100,000 for a new truck face a Catch-22 situation. The ports allow retrofitting only if the trucks are brought up to 2007-model emissions standards, but at present the California Air Resources Board has not certified any retrofit device that meets that standard... (Photo courtesy tomsaint11@Flickr) Labels: clean truck fee
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