* California - Average LA-LB truck turn times hit hour and a half
-- Harbor truckers in Los Angeles-Long Beach are accepting the fact that, at least for the moment, turn times are stuck at about 90 minutes, when a little over a year ago average turn times in the largest U.S.A. port complex were about one hour... The reason for this grudging acceptance of a 50 percent degradation in turn times is that harbor drayage rates have gone up, and on top of the higher rates, many trucking companies have succeeded in getting customers to pay for waiting times at congested marine terminals... The industry stakeholder groups that the two ports have formed to address important issues such as truck turn times must find a way to eventually get the average times back to about one hour, Weston La Bar, executive director of the Harbor Trucking Association of Southern California, said. This is especially true now because each year the average size of the vessels calling in Los Angeles-Long Beach gets larger... A recent study by PIERS, stated that vessels calling in Los Angeles-Long Beach generate an average of more than 5,000 container moves per visit, far more than at any other port in the world. New York-New Jersey is second in that metric. The two largest U.S. port complexes also experience more congestion problems than other ports, so it is obvious that the mega-ports have still not developed the processes needed to handle today’s big ships...
Los Angeles, CAL, USA - JOC, by Bill Mongelluzzo - Jul 15, 2015
* DC - Proposed Truck Safety Bill would hike driver pay, insurance limits
-- Sen. Cory Booker, (D-N.J.) has introduced legislation that would order fleet owners to pay their truck drivers for hours worked rather than miles driven, increase the minimum insurance levels, mandate speed limiters and crash avoidance equipment, and study the effects of excessive commuting for truck drivers... Called the Truck Safety Act, Sen. Booker — who is a member of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure — claims the bill will “modernize” truck safety standards and make the nation’s highways safer... Booker said provisions of the Truck Safety Act include:
° Driver Compensation
° Minimum Insurance
° Collision Avoidance Systems
° Speed Limiting Devices
° Excessive Commuting – Would require a study on the effects of excessive commuting. There are concerns that far too often, truck drivers commute several hours to and from their base of operation, only adding to the grueling schedules many of them already work...
Washington, DC, USA - Trucking News - July 15, 2015Labels: trucking industry USA
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