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Vancouver truck plan involves cutting number of truckers allowed in port
PORT Metro Vancouver's plan for harbour trucking calls for limiting access to select truckers who can pay more for permission to enter Canada's largest container port, reported Newark's Journal of Commerce.
"Higher participation charges will be used to fund the new system on a cost-recovery basis to reduce the number of trucking companies from over 150 that currently serve the port, and to ensure drivers are protected from undercutting that has created driver discontent," the port stated in a press release.
The port did not say what the target number of trucking companies will be as it completed the first harbour trucking scheme to commence on February 1 to balance truck capacity with demand to promote profitable operations for owners and good wages for drivers.
"It is expected these changes and others implemented as a result of the Joint Action Plan between the federal and provincial government and trucker representatives will not only bring stability to the port, but will also provide a level of container truck management that is unprecedented at other ports around the world," said port vice president Peter Xotta.
Vancouver has suffered long truck lines that cut drivers' pay because many are paid by the trip rather than an hourly rate. Hundreds went out on strike in March, crippling the port for a month.
Working with the British Columbia and federal governments, the port authority developed a 14-point action plan that is designed to reduce truck wait times through a combination of incentives and penalties with turn times improving since March.
"The Vancouver plan calls for higher participation charges, enhanced truck age requirements aligned with the port's environmental standards, an expanded provincial audit and oversight framework, improved tracking and measurement of port efficiency and trucking company sponsorship of owner-operator drivers. Some of those details are still being worked out," said the report.
The plan attempts to balance truck capacity with demand for trucking services to prevent over-capacity and downward pressure on rates in the highly-competitive industry, said the report.
"Higher participation charges will be used to fund the new system on a cost-recovery basis to reduce the number of trucking companies from over 150 that currently serve the port, and to ensure drivers are protected from undercutting that has created driver discontent," the port stated in a press release.
The port did not say what the target number of trucking companies will be as it completed the first harbour trucking scheme to commence on February 1 to balance truck capacity with demand to promote profitable operations for owners and good wages for drivers.
"It is expected these changes and others implemented as a result of the Joint Action Plan between the federal and provincial government and trucker representatives will not only bring stability to the port, but will also provide a level of container truck management that is unprecedented at other ports around the world," said port vice president Peter Xotta.
Vancouver has suffered long truck lines that cut drivers' pay because many are paid by the trip rather than an hourly rate. Hundreds went out on strike in March, crippling the port for a month.
Working with the British Columbia and federal governments, the port authority developed a 14-point action plan that is designed to reduce truck wait times through a combination of incentives and penalties with turn times improving since March.
"The Vancouver plan calls for higher participation charges, enhanced truck age requirements aligned with the port's environmental standards, an expanded provincial audit and oversight framework, improved tracking and measurement of port efficiency and trucking company sponsorship of owner-operator drivers. Some of those details are still being worked out," said the report.
The plan attempts to balance truck capacity with demand for trucking services to prevent over-capacity and downward pressure on rates in the highly-competitive industry, said the report.
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