The Port Authority of New York/New Jersey unveiled a clean truck program Wednesday that will eventually require all trucks visiting the port to have 2007 model year engines. The program will ban trucks with pre-1994 model year engines by January 2011 and will ban pre-2007 model year engine trucks by 2017.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s leadership watched clean truck programs closely as they were implemented at Los Angeles and Long beach California. … The American Trucking Associations issued a statement Wednesday thanking the New York/New Jersey ports for not adopting an employee-driver mandate similar to the requirement created by the Port of Los Angeles.