Trucks near the Port of Los Angeles. Click on the image to read the full LA Business Journal article.
Nearly 12 months into a program that paid dozens of trucking companies $44 million to upgrade vehicles serving the Port of Los Angeles, the vast majority of subsidized trucks have not made the minimum number of trips to the port.
In all, 393 of the 2,100 subsidized trucks have not made a single call at the port. Officials would not identify the companies that own those trucks. Both the companies and the port characterize the main snag as the recession, which reduced port business 14 percent last year.