https://www.portoflosangeles.org/environment/air-quality/clean-truck-program
https://patriotpost.us/articles/83449-biden-to-the-rescue-on-the-supply-chain-2021-10-14
From FB:
Scores of container ships sitting outside the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. Hundreds of thousands containers aboard.
Yet another progressive initiative has driven truckers off the road …
National Law Review (5/28/2021): “Putting the Brakes on Commercial Truckers as Independent Contractors in California”
“In a blow to California’s commercial trucking industry, the Ninth Circuit recently ruled that California law relating to whether workers can be classified as employees is not preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (the “FAAAA”). As a result, it will remain difficult under California’s current test for transportation companies to establish an independent contractor relationship with its drivers, including owner-operators … “
Read the comments from the trucking industry:
From FB:
Don’t believe the news! They manipulate info more often, and very little of the news is truthful these days.
“The NEWS says the California port situation is caused by a driver shortage.
Not so fast: It is in part caused by a California Truck Ban which says all trucks must be 2011 or newer and a law called AB 5 which prohibits Owner Operators.
Traditionally the ports have been served by Owner Operators (non union). California has now banned Owner Operators.
Long term, truckers in California are not investing in new trucks because California has a law that makes them illegal in 2035. The requirement is to purchase electric trucks which do not exist.
And in the words of Paul Harvey, “Now you know the rest of the story”
BUSINESS
CARB to begin blocking certain trucks’ DMV registrations in 2020
Carriers domiciled in California with trucks older than 2011 model, or using engines manufactured before 2010, will need to meet the Board’s new Truck and Bus Regulation beginning in 2020 or their vehicles will be blocked from registration with the state’s DMV, the state has said.
The new “health-based requirements” will need to be met before a driver is allowed to register his or her truck through the Department of Motor Vehicles, CARB says. A new enforcement tool used by the DMV beginning in 2020 will automatically block 2010 and older trucks from registration.”
(See Port of Los Angeles link at top of page)