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Port of New York and New Jersey to clamp down old, polluting trucks
THE Port of New York and New Jersey is proposing a change in its tariff that would require additional trucks seeking to access port terminals be equipped with engines manufactured in or after 2007, starting from March 1.
Trucks with 1994- and 1995-model engines will be banned from the port area, reports American Shipper.
"Our goal is to balance the need to efficiently and effectively move goods to and from our port terminals, while continuing to be good environmental stewards to the communities that surround our port facilities," said port authority commerce director Molly Campbell.
The agency says it will commit US$1.2 million to supplement the $9 million it expects to receive in US federal grant funding to assist truckers operating the oldest trucks serving the port of New York and New Jersey to buy newer vehicles.
The agency has a goal of replacing 400 model year 1994 and 1995 trucks that enter the port with the $10.2 million in grants it will distribute.
According to executive director of the New Jersey Motor Truck Association, Gail Toth, the grants offered to drivers will only fund up to half of the purchase price of a truck and the drivers will have to take out loans to buy new equipment.
She said the proposed changes will "effect rates, routes, and prices and certainly it is going to affect our pricing if you have to go out and buy a new truck."
Trucks with 1994- and 1995-model engines will be banned from the port area, reports American Shipper.
"Our goal is to balance the need to efficiently and effectively move goods to and from our port terminals, while continuing to be good environmental stewards to the communities that surround our port facilities," said port authority commerce director Molly Campbell.
The agency says it will commit US$1.2 million to supplement the $9 million it expects to receive in US federal grant funding to assist truckers operating the oldest trucks serving the port of New York and New Jersey to buy newer vehicles.
The agency has a goal of replacing 400 model year 1994 and 1995 trucks that enter the port with the $10.2 million in grants it will distribute.
According to executive director of the New Jersey Motor Truck Association, Gail Toth, the grants offered to drivers will only fund up to half of the purchase price of a truck and the drivers will have to take out loans to buy new equipment.
She said the proposed changes will "effect rates, routes, and prices and certainly it is going to affect our pricing if you have to go out and buy a new truck."
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