User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: Trucks World News
Google
 
Loading

Aug 8, 2016

TRUCKS FEES * USA: For drayage ones at LA & LB Ports

* California - Shippers say chassis fee to reduce LA-LB's port competitiveness
---  The fee increase has been postponed once and could add a total of $29 million to the costs of operating at the port complex... Shippers said Tuesday the decision by marine terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach to impose a $5 gate fee on chassis moves will reduce the competitiveness of the largest U.S. port complex by adding another layer of cost on their operations... For more than 50 years, shipping lines in the U.S. trades tendered a chassis, basically free of charge, to importers and exporters along with each container. Several years ago the carriers began to transition out of the chassis business, selling their equipment primarily to the three major IEPs that operate across the country. The IEPs obviously charge lease rates for the equipment... The new chassis regime is still in flux because carriers oftentimes agree in their shipping contracts with larger BCOs to pay certain costs associated with chassis, but smaller BCOs are on their own...
(Photo: Drayage truck entering Port of Los Angeles)  - - Los Angeles, CAL, USA - JOC, by Bill Mongelluzzo - Aug 02, 2016

Labels: ,

posted by Unknown @ 5:29 PM  0 comments

May 26, 2016

TRUCKS FEES * Russia: HIGHER ONES TO NON RUSSIAN VEHICLES CROSSING THE COUNTRY

* Moscow - Rule change threatens to raise trucker, shipper costs
-   Non-Russian trucking companies face steep border fees...
The cost of transshipping containers by truck in Russia using international motor carriers has doubled due to a decision of the government to levy extra charges on foreign motor carriers, increasing costs for shippers... The charges for foreign motor carriers previously existed but will increase from 385 rubles to 850 rubles ($5.88 to $12.99) per day, and from 60,000 rubles to 120,000 rubles per year... They will apply to trucks with capacities ranging from 3.5 tonnes to 12 tonnes (3.8 tons to 13.2 tons)... Foreign motor carriers had anticipated the charges, so shipments through the country should not decline too much, according to Constantine Sharshakov, deputy director of the Association of International Road Carriers — a public association that includes Russian and foreign motor carriers... Motor carriers from the following countries are likely to be impacted by the new regulation: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkmenistan, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Sweden...
Moscow, Russia - JOC, by Eugene Gerden - May 24, 2016

Labels: ,

posted by Unknown @ 6:58 AM  0 comments

Apr 30, 2016

STEEP BORDER FEES * Europe - For non-Russian trucks in Russia

* Moscow - Non-Russian trucking companies face steep border fees

--- The cost of transshipping containers by truck in Russia using international motor carriers has doubled due to a decision of the government to levy extra charges on foreign motor carriers, increasing costs for shippers... The charges for foreign motor carriers previously existed but will increase from 385 rubles to 850 rubles ($5.88 to $12.99) per day, and from 60,000 rubles to 120,000 rubles per year. They will apply to trucks with capacities ranging from 3.5 tonnes to 12 tonnes (3.8 tons to 13.2 tons)... The proceeds from the rule, which was passed to help reverse the effects of the devaluation of the ruble, will go into Russia’s Road Fund, which provides funding for the majority of the country’s infrastructure projects... Foreign motor carriers had anticipated the charges, so shipments through the country should not decline too much... The rule should increase the competitiveness of Russian motor carriers, according to the government, which has not ruled out the possibility that the implementation of this measure may result in price increases for some imported goods... Motor carriers from the following countries are likely to be impacted by the new regulation: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkmenistan, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Sweden... 
Moscow Russia - JOC, by Eugene Gerden - Apr 28, 2016

Labels: ,

posted by Unknown @ 3:57 PM  0 comments

Apr 11, 2016

TRUCKS' REGISTRATION FEES * USA: Defeated in New York

* N.Y. - Truck fee costs $50 million, the registration penalized out-of-state truckers
... While not explicitly outlined, the state is expected to lose about $50 million this year thanks to a court battle two months ago that overturned a controversial registration fee among truckers from outside of New York... "They've eliminated the $19 fee," said Kendra Hems, president of the state Motor Truck Association. "Now they pay a $1.50 administrative fee" ... The change stemmed from a lawsuit by the Missouri-based Owner Operators and Independent Drivers Association, which argued that the $19 fee — $15 for registration and $4 for the decal, collected every four years was illegal. That's because out-of-state truckers who may simply pass through the state were required to pay the same amount as intrastate truckers, or those who remain within New York's borders... 
(Photo by John Carl D'Annibale)   --  Albany, NY, USA - The Times Union, by Rick Karlin - April 7, 2016

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 5:31 PM  0 comments

Aug 24, 2015

CARGO FEES * USA: Oakland Port proposes they to fight congestion

* California - The Port of Oakland, wants to charge to move containers during peak hours 
-- Terminal operators at the Port of Oakland plan to start charging cargo owners to move containers during peak times in an attempt to alleviate congestion... The proposal, which federal regulators are currently evaluating, is facing criticism from large retailers, farmers and other companies that rely on the port for imports and exports and could end up paying millions of dollars to move cargo. Port officials say the fees are necessary to reduce traffic during the busiest periods and to pay for new Saturday service at container terminals... Few major U.S. ports operate on weekends or charge fees to move containers during peak hours. But experts say more could follow Oakland’s lead as cargo volumes grow and capacity is strained by bigger ships and rising imports. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s busiest, added evening and weekend hours in 2005 and introduced fees to fight congestion and reduce emissions from idling trucks... Retailers and other large importers and exporters say they’re concerned about the plan...
(Photo: Bloomberg News - The Port of Oakland plans to charge fees to move containers during peak hours)  --  Oakland, CAL, USA - Bloomberg/The WSJ, by ERICA E. PHILLIPS - August 20, 2015

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 5:25 AM  0 comments

Jun 19, 2010

FEES * Australia - 4.2 percent increase to FIRS passes

Canberra,Australia -ATN, by Brad Gardner -June 18, 2010: -- The Rudd Government has passed a 4.2 percent increase to fees for federally registered heavy vehicles after the Opposition supported it in the Senate... The higher registration fee will take effect from July 1 this year, pushing up the cost of a B-double to $15,340 and a six-axle semi-trailer to $5612... While supporting the increases, opposition spokesman on transport, Warren Truss, urged the Government to invest more in rest areas to help the industry comply with fatigue management obligations... Albanese in 2008 introduced the $70 million Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program, which is designed to fund roadside facilities and infrastructure upgrades... The final round of funding is currently being allocated, but the ATA wants the program extended... (Photo from roadtransport/big-lorry-blog: Superliner wading through the creek to deliver a monster dump truck)

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 10:33 AM  0 comments

Jun 9, 2009

Truck Fees * USA - Florida hikes ones, 35 percent

Tallahasee,FL,USA -eTrucker, by Jill Dunn -5 June 2009: -- This year, Florida truckers face a registration fee increase of an average 35 percent after the Legislature instituted its first hike since 1971... Ann Nucatola, press secretary for the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, said the increase puts Florida level with averages nationwide. Truck registration has remained constant so far, she said... Legislators established the new fee schedule, effective Sept. 1, as part of the state’s budget development process...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 5:59 AM  0 comments

Feb 13, 2009

TAXES / FEES / TOLLS: UP * USA - Illinois bill would double base plate fee

Truckers would have to pay twice as much to base plate their trucks in Illinois under legislation in the state’s House

Springfield,ILL,USA -Land Line Magazine -February 12, 2009: -- ... Rep. LaShawn Ford, D-Chicago, is the sponsor of a bill that would have commercial vehicles pay double the flat weight tax rates to be paid each registration year. For truck registrations of 80,000 pounds, the fee for tags would increase to $5,580 – up from $2,790... To add insult to injury, truckers also would pay more for the commercial distribution fee because it is a percentage tax paid on registrations for trucks in the state. The amount is a 14.35 percent surcharge of the registration fees... Ford said the state needs to look at ways to fund the capital construction bill, and this is one option. He noted that truck fees might be a better option than imposing a tax on business...


* Texas - Trucking Moving Day convenes at State Capitol

Austin,TX,USA -News 8 Austin -12 Feb 2009: -- A fleet of transportation professionals turned out Thursday for Trucking Moving Day at the State Capitol... Members of the Texas Motor Transportation Association and Southwest Movers Association dropped in on lawmakers to talk about the negative impact of the franchise tax reform, passed last legislative session, which restructured business taxes in order to provide tax relief for property owners... One industry spokesman says if the current driver shortage continues, there will be about 20,000 vacancies by the year 2016... John Esparza, TMTA President, says one out of every 14 jobs in the state is related to the trucking business...


* Traffic Tolls Up Amid Recession

Washington,DC,USA -The Washington Times, by David Sharp -3 Feb 2009: -- Toll road collections are decreasing as people drive less during the recession. At the same time, maintenance and constructions costs are rising, prompting the nation's 75 turnpike operators to raise tolls. Toll revenue is used to pay off bonds as well as fund maintenance and upgrades. However, most turnpike authorities are autonomous and are not likely to benefit from proposed federal stimulus funds for states, says Paul Godfrey, a toll expert at HNTB, a nationwide engineering and consulting firm. HNTB said many of the 99 toll roads it monitors raised rates in 2008, including the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, New York State Thruway, and the turnpikes of New Hampshire. The New York State Thruway is considering an additional increase in 2009, as are the Maine Turnpike, Ohio Turnpike, Massachusetts Turnpike, New Jersey Turnpike, Kansas Turnpike, and John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway in Maryland... (Photo by ASSOCIATED PRES - Traffic slows for the York tolls on the Maine Turnpike in York, Maine, on Saturday. Tolls went up this week for motorists using the turnpike, a year earlier than the Maine Turnpike Authority had anticipated)

Labels: , ,

posted by Unknown @ 12:52 PM  0 comments

Nov 9, 2008

Higher Truck Fees * USA - Threaten Toledo port

Some fear increase of 3,536% will send business to Detroit

Toledo,OH,USA -The Toledo Blade, by LARRY P. VELLEQUETTE -9 Nov 2008: -- ... Farmers, truckers, independent businessmen - all patiently wait their turn to deposit their loads, collect their checks, and start the roundtrip from Michigan to the bustling Port of Toledo all over again... But an administrative change enacted last month by the Ohio Department of Transportation threatens to dim what has been a bright spot on an otherwise bleak regional economic landscape... ODOT - seeing its gasoline tax revenues declining dramatically as people travel less and drive more fuel-efficient vehicles - has set its sights on large trucks to make up part of the shortfall... It notified truckers last month that it had raised permit fees for vehicles heavier than the state's standard 40 tons from the traditional $55 a year to $500 a quarter, an increase of 3,536 percent in 10 months... (Photo by DAVE ZAPOTOSKY/ The Toledo Blade - Jeff Gryca, a driver for Gentner, Inc., of Saline, Mich., gets a load of sand at the Kuhlman Corp., in Toledo. A 3,536% fee increase for trucks over 40 tons enacted by ODOT has Port of Toledo officials fearing transportation business will leave the area, choosing Detroit instead)

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 6:13 PM  1 comments

Sep 25, 2008

FEES & TAXES * USA - Congress May Link Change in Truck Size to Vehicle Miles Tax

Congress may link any change in truck size- and-weight limits in upcoming highway legislation to a new commercial vehicle-miles-traveled tax

Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics, by Sean McNally -Sept. 22, 2008: -- ... Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), chairman of the House Highway and Transit Subcommittee, said last week... DeFazio said Sept. 16 at the American Road and Transportation Builders Association’s annual “Public-Private Ventures in Transportation” meeting, there were fewer issues, such as privacy and technological upgrades, with imposing a mileage fee on large trucks than on passenger cars and that would make the conversion simpler...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 4:44 PM  0 comments

CLEAN TRUCK FEE * USA - Long Beach Delays Truck Fee

Long Beach,CAL,USA -Journal of Commerce/Traffic World, by Bill Mongelluzzo -24 Sept 2008: -- The Port of Long Beach will delay for several weeks the collection of a $35 per-TEU clean-trucks fee that was scheduled to take effect on Oct. 1... In a statement Tuesday, the port explained that it is still developing the computerized PortCheck collection system. It expected the system to be operational "a few weeks" after Oct. 1... It is uncertain if the Port of Los Angeles will also delay collection of the fee. Port executives could not be reached for comment...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 12:23 AM  0 comments

Aug 6, 2008

TRUCK'S FEES * Bulgaria - Turkey Officially Introduces Fees for Bulgarian Vehicles

Beginning September 1, 2008 Turkey is going to require a fee from all Bulgarian vehicles entering the country as a response to the fee imposed by Bulgaria for all Turkish trucks crossing into Bulgarian territory

Sofia,Bulgaria -Novinite -5 August 2008: -- The General Director of the Turkish Road Agency stated that the Turkish authorities have been forced to undertake the measure in order to respond to the transit fees imposed by Bulgaria. He had not specified the exact amount of the fee... In addition, Turkish trucks would no longer pass through Bulgaria. They would deposit the goods they transport for other European countries at the Bulgarian border and would receive their import goods at the border as well...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 5:04 PM  0 comments

Jul 5, 2008

Transporters Condemn * Bulgaria’s - Transit fees on Turkish trucks

İstanbul,Turkey -Today's Zaman -5 July 2008: -- The International Transporters' Association (UND) on Friday condemned Bulgaria's recently adopted regulation on the collection of transit fees from Turkish cargo trucks... Bulgaria, following its accession to EU, unilaterally cancelled its transportation agreement with Turkey, and on June 28 Bulgaria started to require 83 euros from every Turkish truck that uses the Bulgarian border to reach the European market... Turkey has 250,000 trucks crossing the Bulgarian border annually to carry exported and imported goods in the trade with the vast European market...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 6:36 AM  0 comments

Mar 9, 2008

FEES * USA - Wyoming doubles certain truck ones

WYO,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Keith Goble -March 6, 2008: -- Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal has signed a bill into law boosting the fees charged per mile traveled for oversized or overweight trucks in the state... The new law, increases the oversize single trip permit fee for overweight trucks from $15 to $30. The minimum fee for an overweight vehicle permit will increase from $25 to $50... When an overweight permit is issued, the fee will increase from 4 cents to 7.5 cents for each ton or fraction thereof of weight in excess of the weight limitation for each mile traveled on the highways... A fiscal analysis reports the fee increases are expected to generate $3.5 million in fiscal year 2009, growing to $4.2 million in fiscal year 2011 and each year thereafter. The revenue will be earmarked for the state’s highway fund...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 7:25 AM  0 comments

Nov 14, 2007

FEES * USA - Changes sought to ‘bad driver’, in Michigan

MICH,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Keith Goble -November 13, 2007: -- An effort in the Michigan House seeks to modify the Drivers’ Responsibility Law. The law tacks on additional fees for drivers who have certain traffic violations and point accumulations to keep their driving privileges... Advocates for changing the law say the extra fees are devastating to poor and working class drivers. Others say the fines are unconstitutional...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 3:00 PM  0 comments

Nov 5, 2007

Fees * UK - Road Pricing & Congestion Charging

London,UK -Road Transport, by Louise Cole -5 November 2007: -- Road pricing is a form of demand management for the road network designed to dispel congestion...

Congestion charging: Durham was the first city in the UK to implement limited local road pricing in the form of a congestion charge, with London following suit in 2003. Transport for London has claimed the scheme as a success, citing a fall of 25% in traffic volume and improved journey times following its implementation of the £8 a vehicle charge...


The government commissioned Sir Rod Eddington to investigate the future of UK transport and he initially proposed a road pricing scheme, among other initiatives, citing the £7-8bn cost of congestion to British commerce annually... Other polls have also shown a solid opposition although the most recent, by Ipsos Mori, has suggested a bedrock of support provided the government reinvested the money in public transport and the scheme was fiscally neutral for motorists.

The Freight Transport Association has consistently supported the idea of road pricing as a way of decoupling motoring and road transport taxation. It argues that improved journey times and a rebate scheme to operators would compensate for the additional cost.

The Road Haulage Association has however been steadfastly opposed. It particularly objects to the long period in which operators may face the complication of many different regional schemes throughout the country.

Lorry Road User Charge: Current road pricing schemes follow in the wake of the government’s abortive plan for Lorry Road User Charging (LRUC). Supported by the trade associations, the government invested £37m in investigating a way of charging HGVs for use of UK roads and then rebating UK operators. The aim was to decouple HGV and car taxation and ensure that foreign lorries contributed to the cost of UK roads. However the scheme proved prohibitively expensive and unwieldy to implement and was abandoned by transport secretary Alistair Darling. The LRUC was opposed by transport academic Alan McKinnon of Heriot-Watt University... (Picture by Max Miller. Courtesy from BigLorryBlog)

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 12:02 PM  0 comments

Nov 2, 2007

Truck Fee Plan * USA - New study cites cost of Houston’s proposed one

Houston,TX,USA _Land Line Magazine -October 31, 2007: -- A proposed city ordinance in Houston that would put stiff new fees on certain trucks would cause the loss of more than 20,000 jobs and create more than $1 billion in economic damage, according to a study by the Port of Houston Authority... The proposed city ordinance would establish new permit fees for overweight and oversize trucks ranging from $145 for a single trip to more than $1,200 for a two-year permit... The councilman who proposed the ordinance claims he did so after his constituents complained about road damage caused by overweight trucks... The council could vote on the proposal Dec. 5...

Labels:

posted by Unknown @ 10:31 AM  0 comments