NY/NJ Clean Trucks Plan Launches Without Owner-Operator Ban (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

March 10th, 2010 Comments Off Posted in Diesel Engines, Engines

ARLINGTON, Va., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Trucking Associations (ATA) today congratulated the leadership of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for developing a Clean Trucks Program that will improve air quality at the port. The NY/NJ plan focuses on reducing truck pollution through retirement of older diesel engines and not on unrelated and unnecessary …

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Truck driver struggles with economy, environment at harbor complex (KPCC Pasadena)

December 23rd, 2009 Comments Off Posted in Diesel Engines, Engines

It’s been a rough year for trucking business at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Harbor officials credit a year-old Clean Trucks program with removing polluting diesel engines from the road. The trucking industry’s brought legal challenges to the agreements that enforce the program.

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