Reminder: Port of LB to Ban Old Drayage Trucks on Jan 1
The Port of Long Beach terminals will begin barring the last of the oldest, most polluting drayage trucks from entering their gates on January 1, 2012 as the final part of the Clean Trucks Program. The Port will ban some…
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280 older container trucks and another 800 older non-container trucks from Port terminals so that all of the 11,000 drayage trucks servicing Port terminals will be 2007 or newer models. All drayage trucks doing business at Port must register under the Clean Trucks Program. Container trucks are inspected and equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Only trucks meeting the Port’s environmental, safety and security standards get a green light to enter shipping terminals. Non-container trucks receive stickers.