Tag: Port of Seattle

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‘Clean trucks’ program at Washington ports gets extension to 2019 with registration
Announced last week, the Northwest Seaport Alliance offered owners as yet noncompliant with the requirement to utilize 2007 and later emissions-spec engines by April 1 an extension through to January 1 of next year, with a caveat.
February 13, 2018
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Truckers end walkout at Seattle port
The owner-operators were protesting low pay, overweight loads and condition of chassis they pull owned by freight companies.
February 15, 2012
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Port haulers on Occupy actions
The Occupy Wall Street movement claimed solidarity with West Coast port haulers yesterday in efforts with varying success to shut down ports in Southern and Northern California as well as farther north in the Pacific Northwest. Some port haulers reciprocated the gesture. This “Open Letter From America’s Port Truck Drivers,” for instance, originating from the […]
December 13, 2011
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Seattle agencies cut small business paperwork
Small businesses that qualify as small contractors and suppliers can fill out one application for the Port of Seattle and King County.
April 6, 2011
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Seattle port starts clean trucks program
More than 5,929 trucks and more than 1,100 trucking companies/truck owners are registered, according to the port.
January 11, 2011
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Seattle port schedules truck registry deadline
Port has given drayage truckers until Dec. 31 to register their trucks, which must have a 1994 engine or newer.
August 19, 2010
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Seattle program scraps 200 drayage trucks
ScRAPS started last November with the goal of taking at least 250 drayage trucks with pre-1994 engines off the road.
July 2, 2010
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Seattle port trucks updated
In the last three months, 59 truck owners working the Port of Seattle have turned in their older polluting diesel trucks for a $5,000 scrap credit. About 85 percent of the trucks have been or are being replaced with a newer truck, according to Kathy Boucher, Cascade Sierra Solutions branch manager in Seattle. Older trucks create […]
February 3, 2010
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Seattle port trucks updated
In the past three months, 59 truck owners have turned in their older diesel trucks for a $5,000 scrap credit
February 1, 2010
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