What concerns are your members raising about both port Clean Truck ProgramsLos Angeles and Long Beach?
The key issue is the port trying to implement a Teamster-supported, illegal employee-driver mandate in Los Angeles. The Teamsters persuaded L.A. City Hall to support a mandate that the motor carriers who will be allowed to operate at the port environment under the clean truck proposal would have to use employee drivers and not independent owner operators drivers which the Teamsters can not organize. We totally oppose that requirement on both practical business grounds and, as a deregulated industry, on legal groundsa local port authority will be federally preempted from implementing these type of truck operational requirements which clearly impact the rates, routes, and services of the industry. Are you taking the position that the Clean Truck Plan in and of itself is a violation of the federal deregulation? Or are you saying that the employment mandate is the problem? We believe that the actual truck retirement mandate by a local entity, to take trucks that are otherwise legal and ban
