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CLEAN TRUCKS * USA - Supply Chain Groups Implore L.A. Port To Change Course
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Cunningham Report -25 Aug 2009: -- Twenty-five trade associations representing importers, exporters, logistics industries and service providers have written a strong letter to Port of Los Angeles Executive Director, Geraldine Knatz, urging the port to stop lobbying for federal legislation "designed to force out of business hard working harbor truckers while simultaneously increasing costs to the Port's customers"... The letter stresses that the groups all favor the goals of the Clean Truck Plan to reduce diesel emissions, but strongly oppose efforts by the port to change the "Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (F4A) to include a provision within the Clean Truck Plan that has nothing to do with reducing truck emissions"... The port is under increasing fire for its decision to hire the Gephardt Group to lobby with the Teamsters and environmental organizations to amend F4A so ports could have more control over trucking. At stake is the port's attempt to include a mandate that all truckers servicing the port be trucking company employees, not owner-operators... That change would open the port drayage business to efforts by the Teamsters to organize the drayage business. Since most port truckers now own and operate their own rigs and are legally independent business people, it is almost impossible to unionize them... (Photo from keetsa: Port of Los Angeles)
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