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CLEAN TRUCKS * USA - Dirty diesel ban at Port of Oakland does not win approval
Oakland,CAL,USA -SFBG Politics, by Rebecca Bowe -3 June 2009: -- Around 100 environmental and social justice activists crammed into yesterday’s Oakland Port Commission meeting in support of a program that, among other things, would have banned polluting diesel trucks from the Port of Oakland... New air-quality regulations that come into effect in January 2010 will require trucks to meet more stringent emissions standards, and the proposed measure would have barred noncompliant trucks from entering the port. Instead of approving the program, known as the Comprehensive Truck Management Plan, Commissioners voted to revisit it on June 16, the next scheduled meeting... The trucking industry recently sued ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach for banning independent contractors, resulting in a legal injunction on those ports’ truck programs that will remain in place at least until December... The lawsuit and injunction has indirectly affected how far the Port of Oakland can take its own truck management plan. “We do have our hands tied,” Port spokesman Robert Bernardo told the Guardian. “We don’t want to overstep any legal bounds.”... (Photo courtesy Coalition for Clean & Safe Ports: Clean and safe ports)Labels: clean trucks plans
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That's great. Hope this so called green Teamster campaign to take away our right to truck ownership is doomed for failure. If you think clearly, how will the current motor carriers be able to afford newer trucks or retrofits if we cannot? That's just plain stupid talk. They will each raise the rates to purchase the new equipment, how else? The motor carriers will certainly raise rates under this employee recognition plan if we had a collective bargaining contract. The majority of the trucking companies would still rather chose owner-operators even if they have to operate under a union contract. So what is the real purpose behind this labor backed "clean&safeport" coalition taking away our right to own a small business? It's not all about air polution as they claim. Many of us have worked hard for years to own what little we have. This clearly is about control by the big union to reduce us to their idea of company drivers & bringing in their favorite companies to take over the ports. Not all of us own smoke belching junk as they love to claim in their prescripted media coverage! The small minority that do have bad trucks would be able to upgrade their trucks or buy another if decent freight rates were finally paid.
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