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Ports' clean-rig program * USA - Puts truckers in more comfortable driver's seat
Dumping exhaust-spewing rides for new trucks that offer comparative luxury is one advantage of complying with the L.A. and Long Beach harbor complex's lower-emissions effort
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Los Angeles Times, by Ronald D. White -April 6, 2009: -- The cargo is pretty much the same -- a rusty 40-foot container filled on a recent morning with 50,000 pounds of Asia-bound hay cubes. The trip on a recent Saturday also was unchanged: the few miles between the 51-year-old Los Angeles Harbor Grain Terminal and the TraPac Inc. terminal at the Port of Los Angeles... But that's where the similarities end... Now he travels to and from the local ports in a sparkling new 2009 Kenworth T800 liquefied natural gas truck with a drive train that derives 95% of its power from natural gas... The Kenworth required just one smooth try to latch on to a container and its chassis, and it pulled away as if the 250-ton load weighed almost nothing. Inside the quiet, almost stylish, air-conditioned cab, there was no hint that 5% of the truck's power came from diesel fuel. The only odor: the familiar organic compounds known as new car smell... (Photo by Ann Johansson/LA Times - Heriberto Perez Jr., an independent owner-operator, is leasing a 2009 Kenworth T800 that runs on liquefied natural gas. The new truck keeps the foul-smelling emissions from older rigs at the Port of Los Angeles out of his climate-controlled cab, he says)* Truckers Sue to Enjoin Clean-trucks Concessions
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Apr 6, 2009: -- ATA says provisions deal with administrative efficiency, not safety... The American Trucking Associations asked the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to enjoin all of the concession requirements imposed by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on motor carriers in their clean-trucks plans... In a filing at the weekend in Los Angeles, the ATA asked the court to enjoin the concession agreements "in toto," stating that virtually all of the provisions in the agreements are directed toward administrative efficiency, rather than motor vehicle safety... Judge Christina Snyder, in her original ruling last summer, denied ATA's request for a preliminary injunction, stating that the concession agreements that harbor drayage companies must sign in order to operate at the ports are necessary for reasons of truck safety and port security...
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