November 2009 Archives
November 25, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
"Long Beach City Attorney Robert Shannon has rejected an appeal to the City Council that sought to overturn the settlement agreement between the Port of Long Beach (POLB) and the American Trucking Associations," writes the Cunningham Report. The appeal filed...
November 23, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
The city of Los Angeles has spent over $1 million in lobbying and litigation to defend the union-friendly concession requirements attached to the Clean Truck Program at the Port of Los Angeles, writes Bill Mongelluzzo in his Nov. 13 Journal...
November 23, 2009
Written by: Brandon Borgna
This post, authored by ATA President and CEO Bill Graves, can be found at the Public Policy & Sustainability blog on freight transportation and logistics.In their discourse over climate change legislation, lawmakers continue to propose reduced vehicle travel as a...
November 20, 2009
Written by: Brandon Borgna
Believe it or not, hopping on the "locavore" bandwagon isn't the most eco-friendly way to buy groceries. New research suggests that grocery retailers, not farmers markets, are the most energy-efficient and environmentally beneficial food source."Linear travel miles are not indicative...
November 19, 2009
Written by: Brandon Borgna
Since 2000, the number of registered trucks on the road has increased by well over 1 million, yet federal statistics indicate that truck-involved crashes are at an all-time low. These industry-wide safety gains have caught the attention of state law...
November 16, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
Intermodal freight movement has become all the rage since Warren Buffett's $26 billion investment in Burlington Northern Railroad, writes industry analyst John Schulz in a recent Gerson Lehrman Group report. "But how much freight, really, is going to be moved...
November 13, 2009
Written by: Brandon Borgna
In the past year, Arizona, Georgia, Vermont and Virginia have all shuttered safety rest areas along their interstate highways to cope with budgetary shortfalls. While we often take safety rest areas for granted, people certainly take notice when they no...
November 10, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
The American Shipper Magazine reported on Nov. 9 that diesel particulate matter emissions at the Port of Los Angeles have decreased by 27 percent since 2005. The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach have measured port-related...
November 6, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
National and state associations representing importers, exporters, logistics companies and logistics service providers sent a letter on Nov. 4 to the mayors of New York City and Newark, N.J., criticizing their support for a union campaign to ban truck driver...
November 5, 2009
Written by: Brandon Borgna
The U.S. Government has allotted more than $20 billion of the $26.6 billion available for highway, road and bridge projects as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. While these funds have prompted a short-term focus on infrastructure projects,...
November 3, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
A coalition of shipping industry customers and service providers are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in clean trucks at ports in Southern California and across the nation to improve air quality, said the Coalition for Responsible Transportation (CRT)."It has...
