Apr 22, 2021
It just so happened to be the day before Earth Day that stakeholders around the Port of Savannah gathered to hear details about a project that will encourage cleaner technologies for freight movement. Trucking company owners were among those who came to a Georgia conference center April 21 to learn about the Port Fuel Center, expected to open this year.
Out West, so-called Clean Trucks programs around the ports infamously have operated with a mix of mandates against older equipment and some incentivizing of equipment upgrades. Alongside such efforts, plain strong-arm politics, too, have been a side result, with such programs used cynically toward unionization goals, as