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Chassis will no longer be provided by several major carriers due to new rules on safety. The ‘Roadability Law’ as it is often referred to, has cause several leading shipping companies to withdraw the provision of the trailer chassis’ required in intermodal movements. Previously hauliers could collect both their designated container plus the trailer on [...] Late last week, shipping giants NYK Line and Evergreen announced they would stop providing chassis for cargo container units in the U.S. – effectively requiring truck owners to rent or own their own chassis. The announcements came in the weeks after similar news from shipping giants CMA CGM and OOCL. On Dec. 17, 2009, FMCSA began [...] Congestion, lack of infrastructure funding and stringent emissions rules are threatening Southern California’s leadership position in world trade and logistics, according to panelists at last week’s Southern California Transportation & Logistics Summit. While currently 43 percent of all trade to the nation goes through Southern California ports, these volumes are at risk of being diverted [...] Trucks near the Port of Los Angeles. Click on the image to read the full LA Business Journal article. Nearly 12 months into a program that paid dozens of trucking companies $44 million to upgrade vehicles serving the Port of Los Angeles, the vast majority of subsidized trucks have not made the minimum number of [...] Some shipping lines are demanding that truckers start supplying their own container chassis — a move that many in the international supply chain are watching closely. Atlantic Container Line (ACL), recently announced that as of June 1, 2010, it will no longer provide chassis to contracted truckers and it will shift all of its carrier arranged [...] The ranking republican on a House transportation committee looking into the effect of the Southern California ports’ trucking programs on Wednesday, blasted the Port of Los Angeles’ attempts to bar independent owner-operators from servicing the port. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit member Rep. John Duncan, Jr. of Tennessee said during [...] Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Best Buy Co. oppose efforts by U.S. ports to set labor rules, putting the companies at odds with lawmakers backing a so-called clean-truck program in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Trade groups representing U.S. importers including Wal-Mart and Best Buy support the American Trucking Associations, which says the truck dispute is about [...]
In a recent trucking magazine’s survey, two-thirds of truckers say they are “rarely” or “never” asked to show their TWIC when entering a port. A year ago, truck driver Gary Carr enrolled in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program, which includes a biometric ID card with a computer chip that stores his fingerprints and U.S. documentation. Carr [...] MAIN FACTS: -Locations will include Houston, New Orleans and Mobile as well as Portland and Seattle. -DCLI will offer chassis for use in these market areas to drayage companies at marine terminals, container yards and railroads, expanding the current program from the Northeast, Ohio Valley and Chicago/Midwest areas. -Chassis that originate from any of the port marine, [...] State Route 710, a freeway heavily used by commuters and trucks hauling goods from the nation’s busiest port complex, runs 23 miles from Long Beach to an abrupt end just east of Los Angeles. Activists in tiny South Pasadena have fought successfully against proposals to close the 4 1/2-mile gap between the end of the [...] A trucking association challenging the Clean Trucks Program at the Port of Los Angeles argued Tuesday that a provision banning independent drivers will “dramatically change how work is done at the port.” The port, however, defended its disputed program in federal court, insisting it’s necessary to ensure that the docks are no longer the place “where [...] San Diego's Board of Port Commissioners is expected to see a draft plan for a Clean Trucks Program at its June meeting. The Port of San Diego is working on its own Clean Truck Program to cut emissions and add enforcement teeth to the two-cargo terminal port. The proposal looks to be less restrictive than [...] As the Environmental Protection Agency prepares to evaluate the “The Clean Trucks Program” at the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach, the Teamsters are mounting an offensive to change the game. The latest effort comes today as the union and its political affiliates present a report to to the Los Angeles Board of [...] The Port of Los Angeles efforts to amend federal interstate trucking laws may be gaining traction – at least among Democratic members of Congress. So far 52 Congress members have signed the “Clean Trucks Legislation” to the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure that calls for amending the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, which governs [...] |
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