ProGov21 Policy Library

This report evaluates the potential impact of automation in the trucking industry. It looks at the potential impact of driverless trucks in particular. It evaluates both employment impacts and potential policy solutions....

This report analyized the potential impact of the proposed LA and Long Beach Clean Truck Programs. They how that these programs would not only imporve the environment but would also have large financial benefits for the truck drivers and their communtieis....

This report discusses Long Beach's Clean Trucks Program that aims to replace polluting trucks with cleaner models. The program requires individual drivers, predominantly low-income Latino immigrants, to invest in new trucks and bear the associated costs, while in Los Angeles, trucking...

In The Big Rig: Poverty, Pollution, and the Misclassification of Truck Drivers at America’s Ports, we examined changes in labor practices in the port trucking industry. These changes, originating in the 1970s, have led to the development of an industry characterized by “fierce competition,...

The Clean Truck Program at the Port of Los Angeles was designed to make the trucks at the city's ports more environmentally sustainable. The Program reduced emissions and did not allow port companies to shift the costs of the truck upgrades on to the drivers. Section Twenty of the...

The Port of Los Angeles' Clean Truck Program led to a reduction in diesel emissions. This report compiles data from port drivers, mechanics, air regulators and freight carriers on the financial cost and responsibility required to properly maintain a successful Clean Truck Program....

This report examines the working conditions at two of Skechers’ contractors in Southern California: Green Fleet Systems and Olivet International. Green Fleet Systems is Skechers’ primary port trucking contractor. Each year, Green Fleet’s truck drivers move thousands of shipping containers...