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GuysLady · **^ Top** #**131** 01.12.2009

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Originally Posted by Cybergal

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

I can't even begin to come up with a civil reply..... let's just say that the Lady has nothing Ladylike to say.

Cybergal · **^ Top** #**132** 01.19.2009

FMC Says Ports’ Clean Truck Plans Under Its Jurisdiction
1/18/09
Cunningham Report, CA

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The Federal Maritime Commission last week filed its reply to separate motions filed in December by the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach asking federal Judge Richard Leon to dismiss the agency's case against the two ports over their Clean Truck Programs. Despite claims by the ports, their Clean Truck Programs are clearly within FMC jurisdiction, the agency argues in its filing.
The FMC approved a discussion agreement between the two ports so they could harmonize their approach to cleaning up the fleet of drayage trucks that service port terminals. But it took the ports to court after maritime officials found the final Clean Truck Programs to be anticompetitive and likely to unreasonably raise the cost of transporting goods.
More>> http://www.cunninghamreport.com/news_item.php?id=682

lostNfound · **^ Top** #**133** 01.20.2009

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Originally Posted by Cybergal

FMC Says Ports’ Clean Truck Plans Under Its Jurisdiction
1/18/09
Cunningham Report, CA

Translation: Not enough baksheesh from Swift to someone in the FMC.

Cybergal · **^ Top** #**134** 01.23.2009

CARB asks EPA to reconsider denial of waiver for clean car law

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California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols has sent a letter to Lisa Jackson, the new designated administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, requesting that she revisit the decision by previous EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson that denied California a waiver to enforce its clean car law.
More>> http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=75525

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #**135** 01.23.2009

I just saw one of those new "Green" Swift rigs last night driving through Fontuckey on the 10.

Hey CARB, where's my grant money?

cgrant · **^ Top** #**136** 01.27.2009

You know, the problem is not just the need for anti-idling. I think everybody realizes that a truck APU saves fuel and overall cost of operating the truck. The problem is the “cost” of these APU’s! I think most truckers would gladly buy an APU if they weren’t 8 to 14k. (please break my bank!!) Also, has anyone looked into the fact that the diesel APU’s are not going to be legal to run on the trucks without a filter after 2010. That is a year from now! So, I buy a unit, then after a year, have to spend another 3k, or so, in aftermarket equipment to even run in California! Maybe if there was an APU that cost less than half of the others it would fit into some kind of budget? No wonder truckers want out of California. Correct me if I am wrong.

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #**137** 01.28.2009

And this can't be good news either....

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Rumors of RigMaster’s demise appear certain

With more than 200 independent sales and service dealers, RigMaster Power Corp. has one of the largest and most experienced dealer support networks in the APU industry. When RigMaster stopped answering the phone two weeks ago, even those dealers were unable to get answers until this week’s fax from RigMaster announcing that it has ceased operations.
For the past several weeks, OOIDA members who own RigMaster APUs have been complaining to the Association that they’ve been unable to reach the company, and bankruptcy rumors began to fly.
Today, Land Line obtained a copy of a fax from RigMaster that advises its dealers that by reason of economic conditions, the company is no longer “able to operate its business as a going concern.”
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lostNfound · **^ Top** #**138** 01.28.2009

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Originally Posted by Ron-MARS Trucking

And this can't be good news either....

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Well, that explains why my Rigmaster ceased operations a month or so ago.

txviking · **^ Top** #**139** 10.01.2009

I think CARB should just pass a law that bans all use of fossil fuels in California. Then they'd finally have clean air.

They wouldn't have food, electricity, air conditioning, transportation or anything else, but the air would be clean.

Who needs all that other stuff?

*runs off screaming at the complete lack of common sense in Nazifornia*

LooneyTune · **^ Top** #**140** 10.01.2009

You know it'll come to a point where they will build mega warehouses in Reno and Kingman and all the trucking companies will drop their freight there and local drivers will come and get it and take it back into California. CARB is just making it so ridculously expensive to operate out there anymore, maybe companies will finally say "enough of this, we're coming out there anymore."

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