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Port Expands Clean Trucks Program To Include More Vehicles

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By Ryan ZumMallen
 | Tuesday, 21 December 2010 11:01
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The Port of Long Beach will make expansions to its Clean Trucks Program that aim to increase the use of efficient vehicles being used at the port, and penalize companies that do not meet strict standards.

In response to a ban on pre-2007 emissions level Class 8 trucks earlier this year, some trucking companies switched to using smaller but older and more dirty Class 7 trucks instead. The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners on Monday approved a plan to include Class 7 trucks in the Clean Trucks Program and subject them to the same standards as larger trucks. The port estimates that about 550 Class 7 trucks have been operating in the region, accounting for about 2-3 percent of truck movement.

The other big announcement is that a plan was approved to find ways to penalize trucking companies that switch cargo from Clean Trucks Program approved trucks to older, dirtier trucks once the vehicle has left the cargo terminal. The Port could not provide statistics on how often this practice is used, but says that there is an "unfair advantage" when companies switch to dirty trucks compared to companies that use clean trucks from start to finish.

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John M. Fentis
The key word here being "penalties" for companies that do not meet strict standards. If we are talking about penalties similar to the ones imposed upon JetBlue prior to their prosecution for violation of the City's noise ordinance ($200 per flight)then those are penalties that are simply the cost of doing business. If we are talking meaningful penalties such as $1000-$2000 per violation with the Long Beach Police Department actively participating in the enforcement process with meaningful regularity, then that's a whole other story. Hopefully, they will be the latter types of peanalties rather than the former. Still doesn't account for all of the nefarious trucking activity taking place after working hours though...does it?
Bixby Knolls
Great. Now, how do we ban the trucks from Long Beach?
Jules Bourgeois
This state and this city is driving out business by the rediculously strict "Green Laws". We are greeing everything, even if it means bankrupting the state to do it - which we are doing!
I am curious how many individual trucks and companies have gone out of business and/or been hurt in their businesses. I would also like to see a total cost to the tax payers to GREEN the port, considering they city and state cannot afford do pay teachers to teach our kids and continues to give money to every social program around.
Leslie the Taxpayer
Jules we have to make the decision sometime to clean up our enviornment. It might as well be now. There will always be someone saying why we shouldn't do it, change is tough. We have one planet, let's take care of it so it can continue to take care of us.
paintboy
Leslie, I totally agree. Jules believe it or not there is more to life than money... like still having a life. Tired of people complaining about spending money all the time especially for projects, etc that are worth while. Guess what people, this is America. That's what we do. Spending money is what DRIVES the economy! Without spending there is NO economy.
Col. Nemo
Now all the port needs is a real need for more trucks or even replacing the exosting trucks. All the California regs have driven business out of California. Texas is Booming. Why is that do you suppose?? Manbe Gov. Rainbow will save California... lol
Wrigley Gal
I agree with Mr. Fentis. We need to get very serious about this. Our health should trump everything else.
Jon
What about regulating the ships that come through and cause most of the polution?
John M. Fentis
I can't tell you how amused I am by all of the pro-business commentary which promotes the making of money at everyone else's expense. Obviously these posters have never been to Riverside/San Bernardino where all of the so-called clean trucks wind up so that the 40 foot containers can be repackaged into 50 foot containers using illegal labor (yes the same labor that fosters all of the immigration debates) so that they can be transported throughout the rest of the nation using Warren Buffet's railroad which utilizes diesel spewing locomotives. Ever lived in an area where one breathes diesel particulate matter? Ever seen a three-five year old child going about their day carting around their breathing equipment to address their asthma issues? Yeah, I know, out of sight, out of mind. 20 years from now when booming Texas is suffering from the same environmental issues that are troubling California all the money in the world won't be able to correct the problem. I would encourage the pro-business posters to engage in some education and reading prior to posting their usual pro-business pablum. Everyone has the right to breathe clean air and drink clean water. Making a profit should not be accomplished by denegrating another's quality of life.
About Money
If health really mattered we'd be penalizing and passing legislation aimed at the refineries. Do you know what is in the air that reeks like rotten eggs as you drive toward Wilmington.. or what is in that brown "cooling" water (besides water) being pumped and dumped out the those pipes into the LA River? Green is for money,

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