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  • Doomsday looming for many truckers at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports

    11/27/2009 7:55:12 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 69 replies · 3,014+ views
    LA Times ^ | 11/27/09 | Patrick J. McDonnell
    Filiberto Cervantes has already separated from his wife and kids, lost his car, moved into his truck and says he subsists largely on a diet of $1 cheese burritos. But Jan. 1 looms like a date with the grim reaper himself. ... Cervantes is among thousands of truckers servicing the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex who are facing a day of reckoning this New Year's. That's because Jan. 1 is the day new clean-air guidelines go into effect at the ports, banning all pre-1994 trucks -- as well as 1994-2003 rigs that have not been retrofitted with costly diesel particulate...
  • SoCal ports fee collection causes truck gridlock (new Clean Trucks Program)

    02/18/2009 4:37:06 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 23 replies · 661+ views
    AP on SFGate.com ^ | 2/18/09 | AP
    LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- Traffic has backed up for miles on routes into the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach as a new automated container fee system has turned away hundreds of trucks not equipped with required electronic passes. The ports began on Wednesday to collect fees to help finance the Clean Trucks Program, which aims to reduce pollution from cargo-hauling trucks. The trucks must carry an electronic pass to get through terminal gates. The system charges fees up to $70 to cargo owners who use older trucks servicing the ports. The money will help pay for newer, cleaner-running...