California cleans its trucks
They’ll be no more dirty trucks at Californian ports from next year
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have announced that trucks older than 2006 will be banned from port terminals next year.
This is the last phase of a planned, progressive ban on older trucks by the ports. The Clean Truck Programme introduced in October 2008 instituted a series of phased-in bans.
The trucks that will be banned in January of next year do not meet the 2007 Federal Clean Truck Emissions Standard.
In practicality though, most of the port’s drayage trucks are no longer paying a fee because they have already converted to newer, cleaner trucks. Of the more than 10,000 trucks registered to do business in the LA/Long Beach complex, less than 300 are still paying the fee because they haven’t yet converted.
Phillip Sanfield, Port of Los Angeles spokesman, said to GP: “The Clean Truck Programme has been an overwhelming success.The trucking industry stepped up to the plate and has played a major role in reducing diesel particulate matter from truck-related pollution by more than 80 percent. Today, more than 95 percent of gate moves at the port are done so by cleaner trucks. The Port of Los Angeles is proud to be a leader of this transformational programme".
Article first published in Port Strategy
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