The California Trucking Association said it is advocating a “collaborative strategy” with Southern California port officials to develop an alternative plan for trucks to meet emission goals.
The group said Monday that a strategy to retrofit and replace trucks moving goods through the sister ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach was not feasible.
This collaboration needs to begin with the ports issuing a new timetable for implementation of their Clean Air Action Plan, which is aimed at reducing truck emissions, CTA said.
The proposed Jan. 1 implementation date of “would substantially disrupt goods moving into and out of the ports, thereby causing a serious destabilization to the supply chain and economy,” the trucking group said.
CTA said it hoped the two ports will announce their intentions to lay out a revised timetable and to explore a new clean air plan strategy when they hold a joint meeting on Friday.
Last week the Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference, a unit of American Trucking Associations, sent a letter to the Federal Maritime Commission detailing its concerns on the plan’s negative economic impacts and “questionable legality” of the clean air plan.
