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TRUCKING INDUSTRY * USA & Canada
* California - Up to 1,000 Oakland Truckers Will Be Out of Work
Oakland,CAL,USA -East Bay Express -November 18, 2009: -- Up to 1,000 independent truckers at the Port of Oakland will be out of work by January 1 because of the port's new ban on older, dirty diesel trucks. The truckers had hoped to receive public funding to buy new trucks or retrofit their existing ones, but the Bay Area Air Quality Management District ran out of money, the Trib reports...
* Wiscosin - Schneider to Provide Dedicated Service for Emerson
Green Bay,Wisconsin,USA -Transport Topics -18 Nov 2009: -- Schneider National said it will take over the transportation operations of Emerson Electric Co., an appliances and electronics manufacturer... As part of the agreement between the companies, Schneider will provide Emerson with a dedicated fleet, including about 300 drivers, by the end of the year, Schneider said in a statement Wednesday... The fleet will replace Emerson’s own transportation division, a fleet that was established in 1962 and operated 170 trucks, Schneider said...* California - This week’s CARB meeting to hit on trucking-related topics
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -November 16, 2009: -- The California Air Resources board is preparing to hold a two-day meeting later this week, and it appears the board’s planned discussion of trucking measures will attract some interest from an alliance within the trucking industry... CARB’s board is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday, Nov. 19-20, in Sacramento, CA, and will include presentations on new air quality legislation from the state assembly and on diesel emissions... Staffers also will give an update on the implementation of California Assembly Bill 32, the 2006 global warming legislation that gave CARB much of its authority to enact recent aggressive diesel emissions rules on trucking, shipping and other businesses... The West State Alliance – a group of motor carriers, including many from Oakland – said in an article on its Web site that it plans to attend this week’s meeting. The alliance blasted CARB for postponing a workshop scheduled for Oct. 28, which would have included discussions on the economic impacts of the air quality agency’s emissions enforcement... (Images from balqon: Lithium-Ion Battery Powered Drayage Truck, Los Angeles,CAL,USA)
* Canada - Rocky road for B.C. gravel haulers
Vancouver,BC,CAN -Today's Trucking -16 Nov 2009: -- As the hourly rate for gravel haulers in B.C. slides downward, truckers are looking to their union for a solution, which might include a work stoppage... More than 200 gravel haulers gathered last week in Surrey, B.C. to ask the Teamsters Union to come up with some options to deal with unacceptably low trucking rates. The focus of their anger is the decision by Peter Kiewit and Sons, the lead contractor on the Port Mann Bridge expansion project, to reduce the gravel haulage rate from previously established levels... The hourly rate for a tandem gravel truck in the B.C. government’s Blue Book is $93.45 an hour, but the union says Kiewit is only paying $65 an hour... Don McGill, president of the BC Teamsters Union said, the truckers in the meeting – both union and non-union – were clear and direct. They can not survive with these low haulage rates, particularly if they become the standard on other projects such as the South Fraser Perimeter Road... In June of 2004 BC’s independent truckers shut down the construction industry for two weeks. The issue at that time was haulage rates as well as gasoline surtaxes. The truckers went back to work only after government-appointed mediators engineered an industry-wide agreement on rates...* D.C. - Wetlines Proposal Unnecessary, Dangerous, ATA’s Windsor Says
Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -16 Nov 2009: -- A proposal to prohibit the transportation of flammable liquids in unprotected product piping would not improve safety and would be dangerous to technicians an American Trucking Associations official told a House subcommittee Monday... Barbara Windsor, first vice chairwoman of ATA, gave her remarks at a Baltimore field hearing on the Hazardous Material Transportation Safety Act, ATA said in a statement... Windsor told the committee that the odds of being killed in a wetlines incident are one in 30 million... Furthermore, the $8,000-per-truck retrofits would require welding, which would be dangerous to technicians, Windsor said... Windsor asked that Congress require an in-depth study of the issue before making a decision, to properly assess the risks involved... (Photo from upload.wikimedia.org: Diesel truck)
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