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Sep 15, 2016

CLEANER TRUCKS GRANTS * USA: At New Orleans Port

* New Orleans - Latest port to finance cleaner trucks
--- New Orleans has become the latest US port to launch a program to help drayage truck owners finance replacement of older vehicles with newer, less-polluting models... The port announced a Clean Truck Replacement Incentive Program (Clean TRIP), which will provide incentives for voluntary replacement of about 20 drayage trucks from the 1993-2006 model years with 2012 or later models... The scrap-and-replace program provides grants of 50 percent of the purchase price, or up to $35,000 per truck. The program is available to local short-haul truck owners that serve port cargo terminals and warehouses... This is the first such truck-replacement program at New Orleans. Several other US ports have conducted similar programs using federal grants... The port said it had no statistics on the number of pre-2007 trucks at the port. Port spokesperon Matt Gresham said trucks make an average of 2,300 trips a day through the port’s container terminal, for an average of 1,150 trucks in and out, but that many trucks make multiple turns during the day...
 (Photo: Trucks at the Port of New Orleans' container terminal)   -- New Orleans, LOUIS, USA -  The JOC, by Joseph Bonney - Sep 13, 2016

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Jan 13, 2009

CLEAN TRUCKS PROGRAM * USA - Swift Payment To Trucking Giant Peeves Little Guys

The Port of Los Angeles has made its first clean truck program incentive payment - a check for $8.24 million to Swift Transportation, Inc.

Long Beach,CA,USA -The Cunningham Report -11 Jan 2009: -- The money represents a payment of $20,000 per truck for 412 trucks that comply with 2007 U.S. EPA emissions standards that the Phoenix-based company has put into harbor drayage service at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach... However, only the Port of L.A. has offered the $20,000-per-truck incentive, and it is poised to pay out up to $44 million to companies that had signed up for the program by the port's cutoff date of Sept. 19... The L.A. port made the offer in order to expedite the 80-percent reduction in harmful emissions from trucks that both ports hope to achieve by 2012... That Swift, one of the nation's largest trucking companies, got paid first raises questions about the process, said Brian Griley, president of Southern Counties Express. "It doesn't seem like it's fair when everybody put their documents in at the same time," he said. Griley is waiting for $1.1 million in incentive money to defray the cost of 55 cleaner-burning diesel trucks that his Carson-based company has already purchased...

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