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Port of Los Angeles’ Clean Truck Program * USA
* DC - U.S. Supreme Court rejects L.A. port's concession program
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line, by Charlie Morasch -13 June 2013: -- The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a major component of the Port of Los Angeles’ Clean Truck Program... In a 19-page ruling released Thursday, June 13, the high court unanimously stated the port’s concession program did fall under the scope of a congressional pre-emption that prohibits states and local government bodies from regulating motor carriers... The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach each approved Clean Truck Programs in 2008. The programs banned pre-1989 trucks from entering their ports in 2009. By January 2010, trucks with 1993 model year engines and older were banned. Since 2012, only trucks meeting 2007 model year diesel engine emissions standards have been allowed onto the ports... The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act ( FAAAA) protection prohibits enforcement of state or local laws and regulations “having the force and effect of law related to a price, route, or service of any motor carrier”... ATA President and CEO, Bill Graves, stated: “Our position has always been that the port’s attempt to regulate drayage operators – in ways that had nothing to do with its efforts to improve air quality at the port – was inconsistent with Congress’ command that the trucking industry be shaped by market forces, rather than an incompatible patchwork of state and local regulations"...
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