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OPINION * USA - California Clean-Trucks Program Builds on Ports’ Plans
Drayage truck registry is CARB’s main tool for enforcing state plan
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Oct 2, 2009: -- Thursday was a green day for California's drayage industry, marking the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-truck program, and the start of a statewide clean-air program for trucks serving ports and rail yards... While the ports' banning of old, polluting trucks has applied only to Los Angeles and Long Beach this past year, the California Air Resources Board regulations will apply to heavy-duty drayage trucks calling at all ports and rail yards within 80 miles of California's ports... Out-of-state motor carriers sending trucks to California's ports and rail yards will also have to comply with the regulations in CARB's drayage truck program... Motor carriers in recent weeks rushed to meet the Oct. 1 deadline for registering their vehicles in CARB's drayage truck registry. Mike Miguel, air resources supervisor at CARB, said only 6,000 drayage trucks were in the registry two weeks ago. By Thursday, the registry had grown to 46,000 trucks... The next deadline in the statewide program will be Jan. 1, 2010, when pre-1994 trucks will be banned from California's ports and intermodal rail yards unless they have been retrofitted with a CARB-approved diesel particulate trap... (Photo from fineartamerica: cargo ships at sunset alasdair turner)
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