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Feb 21, 2011

Delaying Truck Drivers * USA - DeFazio Targets Shippers

Bill would require regulating detention time with penalties for excessive delay


Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Feb 18, 2011: -- Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., wants shippers to speed truck drivers through their gates or pay the consequences for excessive detention time during loading or unloading... The Oregon Democrat introduced a bill Feb. 17 that would require the Department of Transportation to regulate how long truckers may be detained at docks... The bill, H.R. 756, would require the DOT to study the issue and establish a maximum number of hours drivers may be detained by shippers... The legislation would require shippers to pay drivers and carriers for detention... DeFazio's bill follows a Government Accountability Office report that found 80 percent of drivers detained had trouble complying with hours of service rules...

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Jun 14, 2010

Trucks Waiting Longer at Calif. Ports *USA - As Cargo Rise Hits Leaner Terminals

Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Transport Topics, by Eric Miller -June 14 2010: -- An increase in cargo traffic and warehouse staffing cutbacks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have left trucks at the ports waiting in longer lines to enter terminal gates, port officials said... As a result, terminal operators are exploring the possibility of implementing an appointment system to ease congestion, especially during peak hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m... Total container numbers at the Port of Los Angeles were up 9% through April from a year ago and more than 16% at the Port of Long Beach. As a result, Wong said, truckers are now complaining that the waits can be three hours or more... Currently, only three of the 13 container terminals at the two ports require carriers to make appointments to pick up loads, said Bruce Wargo, chief executive officer of PierPass Inc., the Long Beach company that contracts with the terminals to operate the gates... Wong said the ports are “encouraging” the terminals to take action to reduce the wait times but cannot force them to create an appointment system...

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Jul 30, 2009

TRUCKERS' PORT DELAYS * USA - Frustrating. Endure shrinked hours during recession

In McIntyre's line of work, time is money. He gets paid based on the number of loads he picks up or delivers each day, and his paycheck will shrink with every missed assignment

New Orleans,LA,USA -The Times-Picayune, by Jen DeGregorio -July 26, 2009: -- Edward McIntyre woke before dawn Tuesday, ready for a routine day of work behind the wheel... As McIntyre passed through the port gate toward the Mississippi River, he learned that work would have to wait. Ports America, one of two companies that run the port's container terminal, slashed its operating hours to deal with the recession. The company shaved five hours off of its 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule on Tuesdays and Fridays, staying closed until noon on those days... In McIntyre's line of work, time is money. He gets paid based on the number of loads he picks up or delivers each day, and his paycheck will shrink with every missed assignment... The narrower hours at Napoleon Avenue have proved a drain on Wells' finances. He counts on moving about eight or nine containers during a typical day, driving back and forth between the port and various industrial yards in the New Orleans area. With the new hours, though, Wells is down to about four loads per day, cutting his paycheck in half... Truck drivers -- of which there are more than 5,000 in the New Orleans area -- are the latest victims of a national recession that has put unemployment at a staggering 9.5 percent. In Louisiana, unemployment stands at 6.8 percent... (Photo by ELIOT KAMENITZ/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE - Robert Wells Jr., a trucker, waits Tuesday at the Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal. Wells said that with the port's narrower hours, drivers line up to be the first served when the terminals open. Just a few months ago, Wells said he could get his truck in and out of Napoleon Avenue within 45 minutes, a task that now takes hours)

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Oct 9, 2007

DELAYS * India - Trucks spend 60% time idling at checkpoints

A three-day trip from Delhi to Chennai now takes an average 10 days with stops at as many as 73 points

Mumbai,India -LiveMint/The Wall Street Journal (NY,USA), by .R. Sanjai -8 Oct 2007: -- Despite a seemingly improving network of roads, around 60% of the time it takes a cargo truck to travel between key Indian cities is still spent idling at multiple checkpoints... Roads carry about 61% of the cargo and 85% of passenger traffic in the country and have long been seen as a major bottleneck in India’s rapid development... Take an example of a cargo-laden truck running from Delhi to Chennai, covering 2,310km across seven states. Drivers of major transport and logistics companies say the trip can be completed in 2.7 days but, instead, now takes, on average, 10 days, mostly on account of about 73 checkpoints throughout the route. And some of them can take 8-10 hours to clear... The checkpoints include stops related to forest, regional transport offices, entry tax, toll taxes, sales tax, octroi and value-added tax, or VAT... (Picture from fetchfun.com/Trip/Malabar.asp -Indian truck on country roads')

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