The Port of Los Angeles announced that later this month, its staff will recommend to the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners an adjusted schedule or implementation of certain provisions of the Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program concession agreement that previously were enjoined by the federal court.
Port staff will recommend approval of an adjustment of the dates for licensed motor carrier compliance with the employee driver requirement, job referral services requirement and the off-street parking requirement in order to provide time to develop compliance systems and provide LMCs ample time to begin compliance.
The port says this action is necessary because the judgment entered by Judge Christina Snyder may put the majority of the port’s concessionaires out of compliance with their concession agreements. These recommendations likely will be presented at the board’s next meeting at 1 p.m. PT on Monday, Sept. 27, and would take effect only upon board approval.
“Now that we have won the case, the port would like to implement the full concession as soon as it is reasonably practicable, but adjust the schedule to allow both our port staff and our motor carriers to prepare for compliance with some of the remaining program elements,” says Geraldine Knatz, port executive director.
The staff recommendation is to adjust the employee transition schedule over the next two years, as follows:
• 0 percent gate moves by employee drivers by Dec. 31;
• 20 percent gate moves by employee drivers by Dec. 31, 2011;
• 66 percent gate moves by employee drivers by Dec. 31, 2012; and
• 100 percent gate moves by employee drivers by Dec. 31, 2013.
The port says this schedule is consistent with the time periods and percentages of employee driver gate moves for the initial two-year employee transition schedule, as well as the achievement date for 100 percent employee drivers under the concession agreements signed by the port’s Clean Truck Program LMC participants.
