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PROTESTING TRUCKERS * USA - Snarl traffic on 710 Freeway and in downtown L.A.
Blasting their horns while driving past City Hall, more than 400 big-rig drivers try to draw attention to new environmental rules that they say threaten their livelihoods
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Los Angeles Times, by Seema Mehta -November 14, 2009: -- Hundreds of protesting truck drivers slowed traffic Friday on the 710 Freeway and blasted their horns while driving past Los Angeles City Hall to draw attention to new environmental rules they say threaten their livelihoods... More than 400 truckers protested new restrictions in the year-old Clean Truck Program, a pollution-reduction effort credited with cutting diesel truck emissions by 70% at the Port of Los Angeles and a similar amount at the Port of Long Beach... Starting Jan. 1, all trucks built before 1994 will be barred from the ports, as will trucks built from 1994 to 2003 that have not been retrofitted to reduce emissions... Retrofitting one truck can cost tens of thousands of dollars, and buying a new truck costs more than $100,000... Sofia Quiñones of the National Port Drivers Assn., which represents thousands of independent truckers said tens of millions of dollars in grants have been awarded to trucking companies to help green their fleets, but none has been given to independent drivers who own their rigs... The trucking industry is challenging this provision in the courts, saying it is aimed at unionizing independent truckers... (Photo by Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times: Independent truckers who say their livelihood of hauling port cargo is threatened are cheered on as they pass L.A. City Hall, which is reflected in the new Los Angeles Police Department headquarters)Labels: truckers' protests
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