New year marks end of dirty trucks at LA
100% of containers in and out of Port Terminals now hauled by clean trucks in L.A.
From the 1 January 2012, every local short-haul or drayage truck calling at the Port of Los Angeles will meet the strictest clean air and safety standards of any major port in the world.
New Year’s Day 2012 marked the final milestone of the Clean Truck Program (CTP), the port’s unprecedented initiative that has succeeded in slashing harmful diesel particulate emissions from trucks serving the San Pedro Bay Ports by 89% in about three years.
As a result of the progressive ban adopted in 2006 and enacted in 2008, 1,473 of the current drayage fleet of 11,772 trucks which were serving the Port of Los Angeles have now retired from port service as from 1 January. That date marked the final leg of a phased in programme to replace all dirty heavy duty drayage trucks serving the port with rigs whose engines meet or exceed 2007 standards.
The CTP has been a crucial component of the 2006 Clear Air Action Plan (CAAP), an ambitious, ground-breaking environmental undertaking that sought to cut pollution 45% from all port related sources – ships, trains, trucks, harbour craft and off-road equipment – by the end of 2011.
The port is working toward a commercially feasible zero emission truck that can be operated in full duty cycles in port operations to ensure clean air benefits continue to grow. The zero emissions truck demonstration project is an integral part of the future of port trucking, which reaffirms the port’s ongoing commitment to clean air and sets new short term and long term goals for further reduction of port related air pollution.
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