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CLEAN PORTS * USA - The Most Effective Clean-Air Programs in the Nation
New Report on Port Trucking Details Imminent Threats to One of
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -PRNewswire -April 15, 2010: -- Environmentalists, Residents, and Port Workers Hail "From Clean to Clunker: The Economics of Emissions Control" by the Sierra Club, BlueGreen Alliance, LAANE, and the Teamsters... The new data reveals the cost of truck maintenance, coupled with the financial inability of individual drivers to meet this challenge, pose a profound environmental threat to clean-air gains initially achieved by the LA Clean Truck Program... The findings come a year after a deep-pocketed special interest, the American Trucking Associations (ATA), stalled full implementation of the green-growth program. The data also underscores the environmental risk for other U.S. ports being pressured by the Virginia-based industry group to put onerous and unreasonable costs onto the backs of individual drivers who earn $10-11/hr, rather than capitalized trucking companies that receive large public subsidies and incentives to acquire their fleets... Other findings include:* The average cost of maintaining a clean truck in its first 12 months of service is $2,200 and rapidly accelerates over time.
* Adding typical wear-and-tear repairs to routine maintenance pushes out-of-pocket costs to port drivers in excess of $8,500 annually. Over the course of a standard 7-year lease the total cost can skyrocket to nearly $60,000.
* These expenditures are over 70 percent higher than what drivers typically paid to maintain the old dirty diesel trucks they drove prior to the implementation of the Clean Truck Program.
One long-time port truck driver cited in the report explains his inability to pay for maintenance... (Photo from cache1.asset-cache: Trucks are driven near the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, the busiest port complex in the US, on September near Long Beach, California)
* USA - ATA Calls Teamsters Report An Attack on Owner-Operators
Arlington,VA,USA -Trucking Info, by Deborah Lockridge & Diana Britton -16 April 2010: -- A new report backed by the Teamsters Union and several environmental interest groups claims the cost of truck maintenance and the financial inability of drivers to maintain their vehicles poses a threat to the clean air goals of the Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program... "That salvo is not a research report, as the Teamsters claim, but just a collection of rhetoric that they have used before to attack owner-operator independent contractors," said Clayton Boyce, spokesman for the American Trucking Associations, in reaction to the report. "They falsely allege that owner-operators are not equipped intellectually or financially to properly maintain and service clean diesel engines. That's a huge insult to thousands of owner-operators"...Labels: clean ports, Clean Trucks Program
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