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NY/NJ ports unveil port truck rules a la L.A.

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 [...]

Cheapest Route to Walmart From China May Skip West Coast

The $5.25 billion Panama Canal project, scheduled for completionin 2014, may take business from ports including Los Angeles and Seattle, and railroads including Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. It costs as much as $1,000 more per cargo container to use trains than ships. “It is inevitable that railways, such as Burlington Northern, will lose some [...]