http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2009/12/09/follow-that-story-new-report-says-port-trucking-causing-public-health-crisis/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2009/12/09/follow-that-story-new-report-says-port-trucking-causing-public-health-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-24053 Jessie Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:58:33 +0000 http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/?p=6936#comment-24053 “decaying, diesel-spewing trucks built before 1998" is an outright lie. I have been trucking for forty years and engines that are maintained, overhauled, or replaced within time due are clean burning diesels. You can spot a diesel engine that is correctly tuned by watching the exhaust stacks while pulling under load. You'll witness mostly only heat waves from the stacks. even the brand new electronic, particulate outfitted trucks emit slight exaust smoke under certain circumstances such as pulling grades. This is not like the sixties, seventies with the older model Detroits or Mack bus engines that prowled the cities spewing black exhaust from under the back bumpers. Modern turbo charged diesel engines from the late seventies to the electronic ones that began in the late eighties are clean productive engines if maintained by qulified mechanics. These whole misuse of the facts was created by the coalition of green groups conspiring with, and under the direction of the big labor group Change-To-Win to undo the independent contractor status eliminating the ownership of trucks by drivers making it easier to unionize the marine truck transportation business. The true story here is that all this crying to the public the sky is falling due to so-called diesel soot polluting the air is only a front for their real issue to enforce an employee mandate to get rid of the owner-operator truckers who haul the ocean freight. The Teamsters have tried for years to unionize the O/O trucker without success because of anti trust laws so this time they are using the environmental groups to help force out the individual ownership of small one truck businesses replacing them with company owned fleets driven by employees making their job easier to organize. Remember you can produce or publish studies that say anything the group wants them to. “decaying, diesel-spewing trucks built before 1998″ is an outright lie.
I have been trucking for forty years and engines that are maintained, overhauled, or replaced within time due are clean burning diesels. You can spot a diesel engine that is correctly tuned by watching the exhaust stacks while pulling under load. You’ll witness mostly only heat waves from the stacks. even the brand new electronic, particulate outfitted trucks emit slight exaust smoke under certain circumstances such as pulling grades. This is not like the sixties, seventies with the older model Detroits or Mack bus engines that prowled the cities spewing black exhaust from under the back bumpers. Modern turbo charged diesel engines from the late seventies to the electronic ones that began in the late eighties are clean productive engines if maintained by qulified mechanics. These whole misuse of the facts was created by the coalition of green groups conspiring with, and under the direction of the big labor group Change-To-Win to undo the independent contractor status eliminating the ownership of trucks by drivers making it easier to unionize the marine truck transportation business. The true story here is that all this crying to the public the sky is falling due to so-called diesel soot polluting the air is only a front for their real issue to enforce an employee mandate to get rid of the owner-operator truckers who haul the ocean freight. The Teamsters have tried for years to unionize the O/O trucker without success because of anti trust laws so this time they are using the environmental groups to help force out the individual ownership of small one truck businesses replacing them with company owned fleets driven by employees making their job easier to organize. Remember you can produce or publish studies that say anything the group wants them to.

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