The shippers of the containers just aren't going to pay the extra tax or the extra freight rate after it lands the y will move up or down the coast (Mexico) to land their stuff. Think they are shooting themselfs in the foot.

 

The Ports have a $100 fee for long haul trucks, called the day-pass. Thats on top of the other fee's.

 

Trucking companies can easily afford to pay an extra $100 to haul one of those containers. After all, those are HIGH DOLLAR loads. :roll: It is time for truckers to say enough is enough. Stop paying these ridiculous taxes. They may call it a fee, but it is still a tax. If I have to pay a tax to haul a container out of one of the California ports they will need to find another way to move their container. It should not matter whether the truck is a long haul truck or not. Long haul trucks are not going to pollute any more than a local truck.

 

All the trucking companies should simply "pass on" these costs to the customer. That's what the big telephone companies did when the FCC came out with a bunch of fees for them. Here's a site explaining:

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/phonebills/samplePhonebill.html

 

Unfortunately, Allan, there are too many carriers who will take those loads for a cheap rate and still absorb the fee. There is no need for otr carriers to be subjected to paying an additional fee that the local trucks are exempted. I don't see why otr should be treated any differently than the local trucks.

 

Your Right GMAN, some carrier's do take cheap freight. The Day-Pass is paid by the shipper.
But it's a must for O/O's to negotiate a rate that does include a profit, because if you take a load without negotiating a fair rate, we left money that will keep us in business.....
This can never be said enough..........Tell the Shipper or Broker, what your rate is.
I have Haz-Mat, TWIC, SeaLink, SCAC, E-Modal, UCR, KY, AR, NY, NM, OR, CA, IFTA, IRP IRS, BOE, BOC3, 2290, Truck, Fuel, Insurance, Driver(me), accessories....ect, ect, ect.
Tell them what your rate is, "negotiate" a fair price.
And if they don't pay for what it's all worth, I'll say no, thanks.

 

Now that's funny!

 

So much for my plan to save up and buy an older truck. :banghead:

 

I have a 2003 Pete with a C-15 475HP.
And I like it just fine.
And it's paid off.

Retrofiting an emission is possible,
one contact is IronManParts.com
http://www.ironmanparts.com/iro_index.cfm?id=svcs
I mistakenly wrote the wrong web page in my other post (ironman.com <<< wrong).
Ironmanparts.com say they have a diesel particulate filter they could put in and service too.

They say on the web page that the internal guts need to be professionally cleaned on a regular basis to maintain performance.
And during the cleaning process, heat and high pressure is used to burn and blast off, any baked-on diesel soot and particulate matter to reopen the small air passages in the diesel particulate filter.
This is their # (800) 889-1882 , never hurts to ask what it would cost.and how it really works.

You can read about the regulations at www.epa.gov
and at www.arb.ca.gov

It's all really intense reading, but basically these two agencies are holding hands, EPA has the money CARB wants some of that money.

I just want to keep on truck'in. I'm barely broken in, and so is my truck.

 

I can see China and other countries sending their cargo ships to Mexico or over to Houston instead of Cali ports just to save the $$$$ fees on the millions and millons of containers they ship....

I personally wont haul into cali for less than $5 miles, because all the friehgt I ever find comming out is usually under $1mile???

Also note that the "2007 Emissions" regulations that they are putting into place are ONLY for trucks plated in California. If your truck is plated elsewhere you will be fine.