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CLEAN TRUCKS PROGRAMS * USA - 78 Lawmakers Back Granting Ports More Power
Members ask Oberstar to include changes in transportation bill
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by R.G. Edmonson -Apr 28, 2010: -- House members advocating a change in federal law that would give ports the authority to regulate local trucking are turning up the heat in advance of a May 5 hearing before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee... The committee leadership on Wednesday received a letter from Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and signed by 78 House members urging Chairman James Oberstar, D-Minn., to include changes in federal preemption law in a new comprehensive surface transportation authorization bill... A trial is under way in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles of a suit filed by the American Trucking Associations challenging the constitutionality of a portion of the port of Los Angeles clean truck program that would ban independent owner-operators from drayage services in favor of companies that sign concession agreements and hire drivers who are employees... According to the BlueGreen Alliance, Nadler intends to file legislation to change the law in the coming weeks... (Photo from JOC)* Carriers Warn Against Anti-Truck Policies. LTL executives say shippers, carriers need to educate Washington on freight
Orlando,FL.,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Apr 27, 2010: -- Trucking executives say they’re watching for signs of additional modal shift from truck to rail or inland waterways, three leading carrier executives said yesterday... Michael J. Smid, president of YRC, was one of three carrier officials who spoke with shippers at the annual NASSTRAC conference in, April 25. The trucking executives pointed to delay in passing a multi-year surface transportation bill and the Obama administration’s focus high-speed rail and inland waterways “to get trucks off the road”... Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has stressed the importance of “getting more trucks off the roads” to reduce congestion and pollution. The trucking industry makes an easy target, “because there are so many trucks on the road,” said Bill Logue, president of FedEx Freight. “It’s a visible thing”... Truckers and shippers need to do a better job teaching federal officials and congressional staff about trucking’s important role in the economy, Logue and Smid said...
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