Source: Logistics ManagementBy: Patrick Burnson, Executive Editor"OAKLAND—The International Warehouse Logistics Association is urging Congress to reject legislative language that would weaken federal preemption of state and local regulation of trucking in the nation’s ports because it is a backdoor attempt to drive independent owner-operator truckers out of business at those locations – including at the Port of Oakland.
May 25, 2010In a recent letter to Peter DeFazio (D-OR), chairman, and John J. Duncan Jr. (R-TN), ranking minority member of the House on Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, IWLA President Joel D. Anderson said proposed amendments to the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act would undermine federal preemption by allowing local governments to regulate port trucking when it comes to address environmental and port security matters.
“The proposed amendments are not really about environmental and security concerns at the nation’s ports,” Anderson said in his letter. “They are an attempt to gain through legislation what the courts have found to be unlawful: local regulation of truck drayage services at the nation’s ports. Specifically, the proposed amendments are designed to allow the ports to ban independent owner-operators in favor of employee drivers.”
Current federal law preempts state and local regulation of trucking in interstate and foreign commerce except in regard to safety. The proposed amendments would undermine federal preemption by granting local governments the authority to regulate the port trucking industry to address environmental and port security matters.
Proponents of the amendment improperly characterize the need for change as necessary to improve air quality and port security. Several major U.S. ports, including the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Seattle, have already initiated very successful Clean Truck Programs, Anderson pointed out to the subcommittee leaders. He cited the example of the California Air Resources Board which, in conjunction with the South Coast Air Quality Management District, implemented a clean trucks program that led to an estimated 80 percent reduction in diesel emissions two years ahead of its target date.
“This occurred without changing federal law,” Anderson noted. “This and similar efforts underway at other major U.S. ports demonstrate that it is not necessary to rewrite longstanding federal trucking laws to accomplish significant environmental improvements in port areas.”
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Global Logistics: IWLA Concerned About Teamsters
Monday, May 10, 2010
IWLA Appoints Camille Golden Marketing & Communications Coordinator
In her new position, Ms. Golden is responsible for developing and implementing IWLA’s marketing and communications activities. Her duties include providing weekly updates to the IWLA website, producing and distributing the weekly electronic newsletter, This Week @ IWLA, and coordinating marketing materials.
“Camille Golden brings just the right skill set and experience to strengthen our communication capabilities,” said Joel D. Anderson, IWLA president and CEO. “In her new post she will be able to improve communications about the association’s advocacy initiatives and educational and other services to IWLA members and prospective members in the commercial warehouse and third-party logistics industry.”
Before joining IWLA, Ms. Golden worked for the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect as International Events and Communications Coordinator. Ms. Golden holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Theater Arts from Western Illinois University, Macomb.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Kenco Logistic Services' CEO Gary L. Mayfield elected International Warehouse Logistics Association chair
Modern Materials Handling Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 4/9/2010
"I am honored and delighted to have been selected to lead this great organization for the next year," Mayfield said. He brings strong experience to IWLA. Since joining Kenco as CEO in 1999, the company has experienced double-digit growth and is now one of the largest family-owned and privately-held 3PL solutions provider in the United States. Kenco serves more than 200 clients in 31 states and Canada, with 100 facilities and 25 million square feet of warehouse space. The company's core capabilities are warehousing and distribution, transportation management, materials handling equipment, assembly, cartoning, labeling, reverse logistics, packaging, engineering services, metal cutting, fabricating and project management.
Mayfield's expertise in warehousing, transportation and value-added services is founded on more than 30 years of supply chain experience with 3PLs and manufacturing companies.
"The momentum for IWLA has been really building each year with Jere Van Puffelen and previous chairmen steadying the ship and getting it moving in the right direction," Mayfield said. His top priorities as IWLA chairman will be increasing membership recruitment and retention; getting members more involved in the association-including associate members; and improving communication of IWLA's government affairs activities at the federal and state levels, as well as its educational, product and service opportunities.
In addition to IWLA, Mayfield is an active member of the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) and Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP).
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
IWLA Opposes Placing Freight Transportation Under CARB Cap
Contact: Patty Senecal, IWLA California Government Affairs, (310) 678-7782; or Joel Anderson, IWLA President & CEO, (847) 813-4699
IWLA Opposes Placing Freight Transportation Under CARB Cap
January 13, 2010 (Des Plaines, IL) – The International Warehouse Logistics Association told the California Air Resources Board (CARB) that a draft cap-and-trade regulation that places freight transportation under the cap would devastate the state’s economy at a time when it can least afford it.
IWLA specifically opposes placing freight transportation fuels under a declining cap and adopting a state-only low carbon fuel standard as part of the state’s Scoping Plan regulations, which are intended to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The cumulative state plan places significant increases on fuel, electricity and vehicle prices and has no impact on global greenhouse gas emissions.
The proposed CARB rules would raise state diesel fuel prices 40 to 60 cents per gallon and regulate heavy-duty truck trailers for aerodynamic efficiencies, IWLA noted. The rules also would boost utility rates 30% to 45% including the assessment on utility providers, with up to an $82 million allowance liability due every three years. Each in-state refiner would be hit with an average $150 million allowance liability every three years and offsets would be limited to 4%, severely limiting the ability of utility and diesel fuel providers to reduce their compliance costs.
“The cumulative impact will be substantial job losses, the relocation of distribution centers from California to other states and an increase in miles traveled by heavy-duty trucks into California from bordering states,” said IWLA President and CEO Joel Anderson. “The irony is that the proposed rules will result in a negative environmental impact because the added transportation miles will create an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.”
IWLA urged CARB to instead focus on the most cost-effective carbon reduction strategies first, and push back the requirements that are not cost effective to 2020 and expand offsets from 4% to at least 25%.
Anderson also said IWLA supports the adoption of a low carbon fuel standard for California when the technology exists, is appropriately tested in in-use vehicles, is commercially viable, and when the regulation is adopted by all of the Western States. Click here to see the letter filed by the Western States Goods Movement Alliance.
