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Clean Trucks * USA – Cost To Ports Less Than Expected
Long Beach,CA,USA -The Cunningham Report -15 June 2009: -- Less than one year into the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach clean truck program, the fleet is turning over faster than anyone would have anticipated, and the private sector is footing most of the bill... In November 2006 when the two ports adopted their Clean Air Action Plan, the cost of greening the trucking fleet was estimated at more than $1.8 billion. At the time, the clean truck programs were a bare bones version of what they are now. When the ports started putting on the meat in 2007, the projected cost jumped to more than $2.2 billion. That figure included all of the costs to bring the entire fleet into compliance with 2007 emissions standards by 2012... But that's not actually happening. What's emerging is a situation in which already, more than one-third of the drayage fleet serving the harbor is eligible to call at the ports after 2012. At the same time, the ports are paying about one fourth of what they had anticipated for the program so far... (Photo from unitedgs.com: Trucks at the LAS/Long Beach ports)
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