NY-NJ Port Authority Revises Older-Trucks Plan

[kscarbel2]

Heavy Duty Trucking / January 8, 2016

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is proposing to modify the tariff for operating at its marine terminals to deny access to trucks with model year 1994 and 1995 engines, effective January 1, 2018, and to require that, effective March 1, 2016, new trucks seeking to serve the port terminals must be equipped with a 2007 or newer model year engine.

The proposed changes to engines allowed by the tariff will be posted on the Port Authority website and available for comment during a 30-day period beginning in February. Comments may be emailed to: publiccomments@panynj.gov.

PANYNJ also announced that it will commit $1.2 million to supplement the $9 million the joint agency expects to receive in federal funding to assist port truckers operating older trucks to buy newer, more environmentally friendly vehicles.

The joint agency said the total $10.2 million in funds for its Truck Replacement Program will provide grants for a portion of the cost of replacement trucks. The program’s stated goal is to replace some 400 trucks with model-year 1994 and 1995 engines that now call on the port.

According to PANYNJ, the approximately 400 newer trucks would result in emissions reductions of about 184 tons of fine particulate matter and 3,843 tons per year of nitrogen oxides over the remaining useful life of the vehicles being replaced. “This is the equivalent of taking more than 56,000 automobiles off the road each year, based on an Environmental Protection Agency formula,” the agency noted.

In addition, the Port Authority has set a goal to eventually have all trucks serving its terminals equipped with 2007 or newer engines.

The agency said it is “working closely with financial institutions to explore whether low-interest loans can be made available to truckers for the replacement of trucks serving the port with model year 1996 to 2006 engines.”

Since the Truck Replacement Program was launched in 2010, PANYNJ has facilitated the replacement of 429 trucks with newer models.

To date, the program has resulted in an estimated emission reduction of 157 tons of fine particulate matter and 4,122 tons of nitrogen oxide for the remaining useful life of the vehicles that were replaced.

“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 Port Commerce Director Molly Campbell. "We believe our plan achieves this balance and will ensure that we continue to systematically address this issue for all stakeholders.”

[1958 F.W.D.]

Yup. Start on each coast/side of the Country and slowly work your way into the middle............

[Underdog]

Is there any way to post an UNlike?!?

New trucks are not cost effective, especially for the slave wages of port operators.

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[bullhusk]

Free Country???

BULLHUSK

[41chevy]

Free Country???

BULLHUSK

Only for minorities and illegals!

[Quickfarms]

I still see a lot of older trucks on the road here in California

There are even a few dinosaurs running around. I saw one pulling a ancient low sided end dump the other day.

[kscarbel2]

Port Authority drops plan for banning older trucks at ports

The Washington Times / January 12, 2016

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has reversed plans to ban older trucks that fail to meet emission standards from hauling cargo at the Newark and Elizabeth seaports.

The agency and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced five years ago they would deny entry to all trucks that didn’t meet 2007 federal emission standards beginning next year to help improve air quality, but officials said they underestimated the cost.

Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman told The Record (bit.ly/1ULH56u) newspaper it would have cost more than $150 million in grants to drivers to help replace 6,300 trucks built before 2007.

“Nobody realized the scope of the issue then compared to today,” Coleman said.

The agency is instead committing $1.2 million to help drivers who own their own vehicles to replace about 400 trucks, along with $9 million from federal agencies.

Trucks that are older than 2007 and already registered at the ports will still be able to pick up and drop off cargo.

Older trucks that aren’t registered will be banned.

Clean-air advocates, upset by the move, said the Port Authority had detailed numbers in 2010 on how many trucks they would have to deal with by 2017.

“For them to say they didn’t know the scope of the problem is absurd,” said Amy Goldsmith, chairwoman of the Coalition for Healthy Ports.

Coleman said that of the 9,000 trucks that regularly serve the ports, about 2,700 have newer, cleaner engines.

“We’re stopping the bleeding,” Coleman said. “Older trucks won’t be added to the registry.”