SoCal terminals to use PierPASS to meet CARB mandate

SoCal terminals to use PierPASS to meet CARB mandate    Marine terminal operators at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have met a deadline to comply with California's air regulatory agency's clean trucks law by using the port complex's PierPASS RFID system.
   The California Air Resources Board had required that terminals report truck that weren't compliant with the state's clean air laws, so the terminals have modified the PierPASS system to collect data on trucks entering their gates and send it to CARB. The PierPASS system will tap into the information already collected through a drayage truck registry.
   The CARB regulation went into effect Thursday.

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   PierPASS is the Southern California terminal operators' administrative company that collects fees on boxes that exit terminals by truck during daytime, weekday hours. The fees are then dispersed back to the terminals to fund night and weekend operating hours. Container that leave terminals during those added shifts, as well as those that move intermodally on-dock, are exempt from the fee.
   The information required to meet the CARB regulation will be sent from individual terminals to the two ports, which will then pass the information to CARB.
   'The RFID technology established by PierPASS will help ease the pains of compliance by making the process smooth and convenient for truckers and the marine terminal operators,' said Bruce Wargo, PierPASS President and chief executive officer.