The Port of Los Angeles has begun charging $2,500 concession fees for companies that do business at the port.
The port began charging the $2,500 fee on Friday, Oct. 1, a port spokesman told Land Line on Wednesday, Oct. 6. It has enforced a $100 per truck fee since February, spokesman Phillip Sanfield said.
Sanfield said the port did not begin charging the fees because of a recent court decision, which found in favor of the port’s implementation of several portions of the Clean Truck Program.
The $2,500 fee has been challenged, but wasn’t enjoined by the court, so it will be enforced, the port said in a Sept. 27 memo.
The Port of Los Angeles has sought to regulate drayage drivers, but hasn’t regulated long-haul trucking. The port worked with OOIDA to create a day-pass system that allows trucks engaged in long-haul to bypass the system.
Day passes cost $30. Truck drivers must also purchase a $95 RFID that should last several years. The passes are good for 24 hours of a specific day. One individual can obtain 24 of them in a 12-month period, and they can be used at either the Port of Los Angeles or the Port of Long Beach.
OOIDA has objected to expensive fees for port access and has pointed out underlying problems at ports that go beyond the scope of the Clean Truck Program, such as bad lease-purchasing schemes.
In late August, U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder ruled in favor of the port – including the Clean Truck Program’s employee-driver provision, off-site parking and other requirements on the basis that the port is acting as a market participant and, as such, is not subject to the laws that pre-empt states or municipalities from regulating trucking activities.
The port began charging the $2,500 fee on Friday, Oct. 1, a port spokesman told Land Line on Wednesday, Oct. 6. It has enforced a $100 per truck fee since February, spokesman Phillip Sanfield said.
Sanfield said the port did not begin charging the fees because of a recent court decision, which found in favor of the port’s implementation of several portions of the Clean Truck Program.
The $2,500 fee has been challenged, but wasn’t enjoined by the court, so it will be enforced, the port said in a Sept. 27 memo.
The Port of Los Angeles has sought to regulate drayage drivers, but hasn’t regulated long-haul trucking. The port worked with OOIDA to create a day-pass system that allows trucks engaged in long-haul to bypass the system.
Day passes cost $30. Truck drivers must also purchase a $95 RFID that should last several years. The passes are good for 24 hours of a specific day. One individual can obtain 24 of them in a 12-month period, and they can be used at either the Port of Los Angeles or the Port of Long Beach.
OOIDA has objected to expensive fees for port access and has pointed out underlying problems at ports that go beyond the scope of the Clean Truck Program, such as bad lease-purchasing schemes.
In late August, U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder ruled in favor of the port – including the Clean Truck Program’s employee-driver provision, off-site parking and other requirements on the basis that the port is acting as a market participant and, as such, is not subject to the laws that pre-empt states or municipalities from regulating trucking activities.