Good day,
As a concerned exporter of
California grown almonds and walnuts, I kindly ask you delay the
zero-emission deadline for trucks until technology is available and
the state has the charging infrastructure in place to accomodate
such trucks on a large scale.
At this time, there are no
zero-emission trucks that can make a round-trip between
California’s Central Valley and the Ports of Los Angeles,
Long Beach or Oakland. Drayage trucking is so much more than
just shuttling containers between terminals or local yards; it
expands across the entire State of California and
beyond.
Many shippers are still facing
hardships as a result of the pandemic and will continue to face
shipping challenges into 2023. The American consumer is
directly starting to feel the pandemic related increased shipping
costs in the form of inflation. Please, delay the
zero-emission deadline. Shippers and the American consumer
cannot absorb the cost of this policy if it were to go into effect
January 1, 2024.
Thank you for your
consideration.
Kind regards,
Jessica Lamke Blase
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