Seattle Port Truck Drivers Air Concerns To Port

Mike

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The Port of Seattle tried Wednesday night to hear and allay the concerns of diesel truckers alarmed by a port environmental program that aims to reduce the pollution created by the aging fleet of heavy-duty trucks used to haul containers between seaport terminals, container yards and warehouses.

By 2010, the Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy requires that drayage trucks seeking to access the Seattle seaport meet emission standards of trucks made in 1994 or later.

"I don't think I am going to make it to 2010 with this kind of plan," said Habtu Habtemichael, 65, who has been driving his 1988 Freightliner for the past seven years. A quarter of the roughly 1,800 to 2,000 trucks serving the Port of Seattle were built before 1994.

It was standing room only at the port meeting at South Seattle Community College's Georgetown Campus. Many drivers said that years of rising fuel costs have made it hard for them to maintain and insure their trucks and impossible to buy health insurance for themselves and their families, let alone accumulate enough savings to buy a new truck or retrofit the ones they have.
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