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RULES * USA - CA air district to CARB: Suspend truck rules, other climate change regs
The Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District ask the California Air Resources Board to suspend trucking and other regulations
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine -March 23, 2010: -- A California air quality management district is asking the California Air Resources Board to suspend trucking and other regulations tied to the state’s 2006 climate change law... The Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District voted Monday, March 22, to formally request that CARB suspend several regulations developed under California Assembly Bill 32 – a 2006 law aimed at cutting the state’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020... Several trucking regulations, including CARB’s Port Drayage Rule, its On-Road Truck and Bus Rule, and the SmartWay (retrofit) rule, were created under the authority of AB32... Brad Mitzelfelt, a San Bernardino County supervisor and board member of the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District, said district officials are worried that the region’s lack of jobs will continue to be at a competitive disadvantage as CARB continues to roll out greenhouse gas rules... (Picture from Wallpaper-s.org: Distant Thunder, Mojave Desert, California)* California - CARB staff proposes reefer rule change
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -March 24, 2010: -- The California Air Resources Board may soon be changing its regulation for trucks that haul reefers... On Wednesday, CARB staff presented several changes to its Transportation Refrigeration Unit rule, a two-step regulation for reefers...
* California - Truck inspections
... CARB announced that since it began enforcing the first requirements of the TRU rule in January and February, 2,800 inspections resulted in 55 citations for failure to register, 157 citations for not meeting the state’s TRU emissions requirements, and $180,000 in penalties assessed... CARB says its TRU inspection teams enforce the regulation at “distribution centers, scales, border crossings, truck stops, ports, intermodal facilities and other locations”... The state requires all in-state motor carriers to sign up with CARB’s TRU registry, and recommends TRUs based outside the state to register... (Photo from coronado.ca.us/egov/gallery: CAL Police at work)
* California - Some trucks bought with port money aren’t being used at the Port of L.A.
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Cunningham Report/Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -March 24, 2010: -- Several news reports out of Southern California contain surprising information about the Port of Los Angeles’ billion dollar truck replacement program... Many of the trucks purchased so far aren’t being used enough, and some trucks haven’t been used at the port at all... The port has reviewed progress of its $44 million truck incentive program that began purchasing 2,200 trucks for motor carriers last year. The port found that about 70 percent of trucks the port purchased through the grant program haven’t met the minimum number of port calls required by contract, and nearly 20 percent of the trucks hadn’t made any port calls... Pacific Maritime Magazine reported that for each truck that doesn’t meet the minimum port call requirement, those motor carriers could be forced to pay $4,000 for a clause that’s in the incentive contract... Two of the biggest recipients of port truck grants were mega-carriers like Swift Transportation and Knight Transportation, which received a reported $20,000 per truck in grant monies. Swift was issued a check last year of $8.24 million in port money to buy 412 trucks through the program... Joe Rajkovacz, OOIDA director of regulatory affairs said, the manipulation of large motor carriers to take port grant money and use trucks elsewhere hurts the port and small-business truckers... “This is a typical example of larger motor carriers siphoning grant money to subsidize their operations,” Rajkovacz said. “They undermine legitimate small businesses”.. OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer, said the carriers who moved the trucks away from the port may accept the $4,000 penalty... “As for only having to maybe pay back $4,000 from a $20,000 grant – Bernie Madoff would love that deal,” Spencer said... (Photo from cache1.asset-cache.net: Truckers Going to LA Port's)
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