What complications may arise at the ports with two different trucking plans in place?
Her description was accurate. One of the things that was a little surprising when the ports broke ranks and moved in different directions was that both ports and virtually everyone else on the West Coast insisted that there was no way they could establish or implement separate clean truck programs. The traffic patterns and activity at the ports are commingled in many areas. A ship may land at one facility but have cargo going to both ports. Obviously motor carriers may have to operate at both facilities during a single move. To try to balance logistically whos driving what cargo where, and whether theyre an employee or an owner-operator, would be virtually impossible and would inject driver-utilization inefficiencies that this driver-short industry can not afford. The FMC seems to understand that there is a real efficiency issue here in the ability of trucking to meet cargo demand, and has indicated in its questions that the ports going on different operational tracks raises many legal
