http://www.everythinglongbeach.com/environmental-groups-sue-long-beach-over-clean-truck-program/ Community events and neighborhood news in Long Beach, CA Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:52:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.everythinglongbeach.com/environmental-groups-sue-long-beach-over-clean-truck-program/#comment-1535 robbie Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:02:27 +0000 http://www.everythinglongbeach.com/?p=6704#comment-1535 i am an owner-operator trucker leased to a motor carrier pulling containers for their customers.the only thing these teamster backed green groups are interested in is helping the union ban us from hauling at the ports. this is not about the clean air that they claim but about replacing us with company owned trucks along with employee drivers making it easier for the teamsters union to unionize the driver workforce. for many years they have tried but failed to unionize port truckers because of our independent status under federal law so now they have found an underhanded way to do this by claiming that they are out to protect citizens against dirty diesel exhaust from truckers who own their own trucks. this is a scam on everyone concerned and serves only the purpose of the union backers. these green coalition members have been outspoken claiming they represent truck driver rights and that of the community. this is not true! these groups represent only their own self interest. the facts are trucks are not the major pollutors on the waterfront as they would have everyone believe but they want the public to think this in order to rush their unionizing campaign full speed ahead. their fancy surveys and studys have been produced to express their own view and to scare the public into thinking we are some bad people because we are individual truck owners. don't be fooled by this coalition of phonies calling themself GREEN because the only green they see is $$$$ from all the potential trucker union member dues they want to collect if they are successful in driving hard working truckers out of the business. the only way they can replace us with company owned fleets of trucks making their job easier to organize workers is by falsey claiming we are the major polluting source at the port terminals. i am an owner-operator trucker leased to a motor carrier pulling containers for their customers.the only thing these teamster backed green groups are interested in is helping the union ban us from hauling at the ports. this is not about the clean air that they claim but about replacing us with company owned trucks along with employee drivers making it easier for the teamsters union to unionize the driver workforce. for many years they have tried but failed to unionize port truckers because of our independent status under federal law so now they have found an underhanded way to do this by claiming that they are out to protect citizens against dirty diesel exhaust from truckers who own their own trucks. this is a scam on everyone concerned and serves only the purpose of the union backers. these green coalition members have been outspoken claiming they represent truck driver rights and that of the community. this is not true! these groups represent only their own self interest. the facts are trucks are not the major pollutors on the waterfront as they would have everyone believe but they want the public to think this in order to rush their unionizing campaign full speed ahead. their fancy surveys and studys have been produced to express their own view and to scare the public into thinking we are some bad people because we are individual truck owners. don’t be fooled by this coalition of phonies calling themself GREEN because the only green they see is $$$$ from all the potential trucker union member dues they want to collect if they are successful in driving hard working truckers out of the business. the only way they can replace us with company owned fleets of trucks making their job easier to organize workers is by falsey claiming we are the major polluting source at the port terminals.

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