As the Port of Long Beach and Los Angeles prepare to enforce the nation’s first large-scale ban on dirty trucks at ports, the ports have quietly made a “temporary access permit” available for intermittent truck visitors.
On Wednesday, the ports are scheduled to begin phasing in the first portions of their clean truck plans, including bans on trucks with pre-1989 engines. All trucks will be required to meet 2007 emissions standards by 2012.
Both ports, however, also have their own requirements that each truck be registered and approve by the port in taxi-style concessionaires.
Long-haul drivers, including many OOIDA members, could gain access to the ports beginning Wednesday when the clean truck programs begin implementation. Both the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced previously that a 12-time day pass system could be used by truckers who make occasional port visits, with each visit costing $100.
On Monday, the ports’ “Clean Trucks Center” circulated an e-mail showing how drivers can temporarily access the port’s Temporary Access Permit website at
www.cleanairactionplan.org/pass. A permanent permit system is in the planning stages.
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