“The Port Authority agrees: the trucks aren’t the largest polluter. Well, why do we have the mandatory Clean Truck Program?: This is about the Teamsters wanting to unionize"...
New YorK,NY,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -October 8, 2010: -- A longtime trucking association says plans to use stickers to identify emissions compliant trucks at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are mandatory and illegal, and it has asked FMCSA to review the program... The Port Authority says the program is voluntary and it is changing the name to say just that... The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey recently created a new port tariff with several provisions aimed at cutting diesel emissions from drayage trucks. The port designed a drayage truck registry for all trucks that conduct business on port authority terminals, and a “voluntary” compliance sticker program they say may speed up port visits for truckers... It also bans 1993 and older model year engines by Jan. 1, 2011... To help port security identify compliant trucks, the port has implemented what it calls a compliance sticker program... Port Authority spokesman Bill Nurthen told Land Line the stickers will help drivers facilitate timely movement through the ports... Gail Toth, the New Jersey Motor Truck Association’s executive director, said: “Going green makes green, and we’ve supported that ... But there’s one thing about supporting something... This is not about the environment. This is about the Teamsters wanting to unionize. People need to see this for what it is” ... Toth said New Jersey trucks at the ports are responsible for a tiny percentage of particulate matter emitted at the ports... “The Port Authority agrees, and they admit we aren’t the largest polluter at the port. Well, why do we have the mandatory Clean Truck Program?” Toth said... (Photo from p12.nysed.gov: Aerial photograph of New York City Harbor from Jersey City)Labels: "Clean Trucks" Program, clean ports debate
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