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Lilbit · **^ Top** #**121** 12.18.2008

Yep, it's all the fault of those big bad trucks. Get a clue California! Your economy is in the sewer, you are driving businesses out of business with your tree-hugger mentality, and driving your residents away.

All the cool and decent people get out of Cali, and let the sucker drop into the Pacific Ocean.

Cybergal · **^ Top** #**122** 12.18.2008

What trucks are good and for how long?

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Land Line spoke with CARB staffers this week following the Dec. 12 approval of the on-road rule. Staff members are still nailing down details of the board’s wishes, but here’s a basic breakdown of what the new regulation means for one-truck operations.

Trucks with 2003 or older model year engines will be prevented from legally entering the state on Jan. 1, 2014, unless technology is developed that allows them to meet California’s standard. Technology is not expected to be developed that would help those trucks.
A truck with a 2004 model year engine and a CARB-approved diesel particulate filter would be eligible to travel into California until Jan. 1, 2017, and possibly 2018, depending on CARB staff interpretation of a last-minute change that the agency’s board made on Friday.
Any one-truck operation with a 2007 model year engine or newer would meet California’s emissions regulation until January 2021.
Carriers may apply to CARB for a three-day pass to allow them access for one truck to be in the state without meeting the diesel rule. The pass is good only once, annually.

More >> http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_ne.../121708-02.htm

Cybergal · **^ Top** #**123** 12.19.2008

Port of Long Beach critical of FMC's stalling tactics
12/19/08

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LONG BEACH, Calif.—Officials at the Port of Long Beach took little time to respond to the recent decision by the Federal Maritime Commission’s to delay its “Clean Trucks Program by another 45 days.

“This is extremely disappointing,” said Richard D. Steinke, the port’s executive director. “This truck financing fee is a critical, long-planned part of our program to protect the public health and improve air quality and security.”

As reported here on December 18, the FMC has filed a lawsuit to block portions of the Clean Trucks Program as anti-competitive. Earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon said he would not rule on the FMC’s request for a preliminary injunction until sometime in 2009.

“The FMC tactics are clearly intended to stall our program,” said Steinke. “The PortCheck system is urgently needed to monitor compliance with our Clean Trucks air quality, safety and security requirements -- as well as to collect the truck replacement fee.”
http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/CA6624154.html

Cybergal · **^ Top** #**124** 12.22.2008

Truckers worry about meeting 2010 truck ban
12/22/08

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Harbor truckers in Los Angeles-Long Beach are looking ahead to Jan. 1, 2010, and they’re getting nervous.

Barely a year from now, the nation’s busiest container ports will swing into the next phase of their clean-trucks rules, and banish as many as 12,000 pre-2004 model vehicles unless they are retrofitted to reduce emissions. That total represents 75 percent of the harbor drayage fleet.

Trucks built before 1989 already have been banned from the harbor under a program designed to reduce the ports’ air pollution from trucks by 80 percent over the next five years.
More >> http://www.pacificshipper.com/news/a...ype=west_coast

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #**125** 12.24.2008

A tidbit from December's edition CDTOA's Transportation Mag.... (paraphrased)
3 trucks or less compliance delayed to 12-31-2013...the rub is that by Sept of 2009 larger fleets must be compliant. Now think about that for a minute, by definition, "Larger Fleets" include brokers like UTI and the like; Fikes and the like. So by that definition, in order to be "compliant" a broker/trucking co that utilizes O/O's will have to ensure that the O/O's own a 2004 or newer model before they can sign a transportation agreement.
One Dump truck broker in SO-CAL Ulgalde Trucking, has secured a contract with the Port of L.A. for bottom dump and end dump work for a large project. They are looking for O/O's with tractors 2004 and newer.
This is real folks.....
Mary Nichols (from CARB) and the Governor are dead serious about taking the old rigs (pre 2004) off the roads of CA.

There were various concerns voiced by the CDTOA and the public at large that these rulings by CARB and how they will effect commerce and recovery from natural disasters. Both Nichols and Schwarzenegger verbilized very little remorse in regards to the loss of small businesses and the loss of future employment.

We lost folks, big time.

We as independent business operaters are expected to become compliant or not run...period.
There is no substantial financial aid (the Moyer program is very narrow in its guidelines and mainly covered pre-ECM engines) and since the state's credit rating has been downgraded, I would not expect any help from the state in the form of low interest loans or grants.

Sorry to make my first post back glum.....

We Californians lost and so has the rest of the nation's trucking companies as well as drivers.

What I would like to see if we are required to upgrade without direct compensation is:
Freight should be at least $2.50/m;
O/O's" receive 100% of the FSC (fuel will no doubt return to higher levels eventually) on the load with no broker skimming;
The "seized" trucks be purchased for a fair market value then destroyed and not sold to "South of the Border" trucking companies......I have a sneaky suspicion that would be the case and knowing how our politicians work in this state...let's just say my suspicions are justified by their past record of ineptness or total corruption.

GuysLady · **^ Top** #**126** 12.24.2008

Ron, it's perfectly okay that your first post back paints with a dark brush; it's the simple truth.

I keep looking for a silver lining in this dark cloud.... I haven't found it yet. For the very few that survive these new requirements, the money will be good. Very good. Until the state steps in to regulate rates.... the problem will be making the cuts... that's the only thing I can find in this to look to for any kind of "silver lining"..... that and the fact that now my husband is more than determined than ever to get out of this place.

Cybergal · **^ Top** #**127** 12.30.2008

ATA: Study fails to consider new truck emission reductions

12/29/08

A study of 31,135 trucking workers indicating they showed an elevated risk of lung cancer with increasing years of work does not accurately portray the industry, said Glen Kedzie, vice president and environmental affairs counsel of the American Trucking Associations. He was responding to a study released by the California Air Resources Board (CARB).
CARB is considering requiring that diesel exhaust filters be installed on trucks starting in 2010, with nearly all vehicles upgraded by 2014. The group also is considering incentive funding to truck owners in the amount of $1 billion in grants and loans.
More >> http://refrigeratedtrans.com/fleet/a...ns_study_1229/

Cybergal · **^ Top** #**128** 01.12.2009

Swift Payment To Trucking Giant Peeves Little Guys
1/11/09

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The Port of Los Angeles has made its first clean truck program incentive payment - a check for $8.24 million to Swift Transportation, Inc., issued last Wednesday.
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.
More>> http://www.cunninghamreport.com/news_item.php?id=676

Lilbit · **^ Top** #**129** 01.12.2009

That smells like pay to play to me. Should be interesting to see the results of this garbage.

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #**130** 01.12.2009

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Originally Posted by Lilbit

That smells like pay to play to me. Should be interesting to see the results of this garbage.

J.B. Hunt probably will be next..oh well..the State of California will get what it pays for...

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