PortCheck Established to Manage Clean Truck Requirements
In the wake of the implementation by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach of a Clean Truck Program, as written about previously here on Freightscene.com(*), members of the West Coast Marine Terminal Operator Agreement (WCMTOA) have today announced that the group has been contracted by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, to collect the resultant Clean Truck Fee.
Establishing a new company called PortCheck Incorporated, the members of the WCMTOA, through PortCheck, will manage and collect revenue from the Clean Truck Fee and Clean Truck Program as well as enforce the bans on trucks not meeting Clean Truck Program requirements.
PortCheck will operate similarly to PierPASS, which was established by the members of the WCMTOA in 2005 to create and operate the OffPeak program at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.
Both PortCheck and the terminals are now working to build the information systems necessary to collect and track fee payments while minimizing impacts to the flow of cargo. A system that according to the WCMTOA will fully automate the process of determining whether a truck meets the ports’ clean truck requirements and whether it will be charged a Clean Truck Fee.
According to the WCMTOA, companies currently registered under PierPASS will automatically be registered under PortCheck, and the process of claiming containers and paying the Clean Truck Fee will be similar to the OffPeak program’s process.
The collection of Clean Truck Fee payment through PortCheck is scheduled to commence in November, with the beneficial cargo owner being responsible for payment of the Clean Truck Fee.
Source: Business Wire