Los Angeles affirms truck ban/feeslicensing advance
NITL (The National Industrial Transportation League) -- Logistics Management, 6/11/2008 7:43:00 AM
The effort to ban owner-operators from the Port of Los Angeles advanced this week with the Los Angeles City Council's approval of the port's truck plan which would prevent these drivers from operating in the port. The Council also approved new fees on containers to pay for cleaner trucks and new infrastructure in the port. The action by the Council is the last major step to be taken before the Port begins to put its plans in place. The only change to the owner-operator ban is that Los Angeles only recently agreed to a five year transition period to make the ban fully operational.The major difference between the Ports of Los Angeles and neighboring Long Beach is that the Port of Long Beach opted not to place a ban on owner-operators. Officials from the Port of Long Beach recently approved final details of its portaccess licensing plan and will begin accepting applications for the licenses from trucking firms serving the port. To receive a Long Beach port-access license, trucking firms must meet specific licensing criteria which is expected to be approved shortly. Without the license, operators will not be permitted to enter the port.
In view of the action by the Los Angeles City Council, it's expected that the American Trucking
Associations will proceed to litigation in a fight over the owner-operator ban.
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