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Article: Judge allows truck plan
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- September 8, 2008
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A federal judge Monday tentatively upheld the Clean Trucks
Program for local ports, dealing a heavy blow to trucking companies
and retailers that had sought to block the plan.
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder comes
after months of struggling between port authorities and a national
trucking association for control of the roughly 17,000 truck drivers
serving the nation's largest seaport.
Snyder said she would issue a final decision Thursday, but
indicated it was unlikely to change.
"I'll tell everyone that I'm not really persuaded by the argument
to change" my ruling, Snyder said during a 30-minute court hearing
downtown.
If it stands, the court's decision means the ...