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Truckers at the Port of Vancouver plan to hold a strike vote on July 1 in response to the port’s decision to go ahead with its program to retire older trucks from operations.
The United Truckers Association, a group representing individual owner-operators of trucks at the port, said Tuesday they were left with no choice but to hold the strike vote - which officials anticipate will pass.
“If they give answers to our questions, we will go back [to work],” said UTA spokesman Gagan Singh. “… We’ve being requesting since February, but they are not willing to listen to us.
“We don’t have any ways left.”
According to the UTA, the port’s Rolling Truck Age Program - aimed at retiring trucks older than a certain number of years to reduce the emissions from these older vehicles - will launch this September (after being delayed from its initial launch date earlier this year).
The UTA said the program discriminates against a small group of truck operators - less than 2% of all B.C. commercial truck traffic - who are largely of South-Asian descent.
The group also said the Port of Vancouver - which handles the export of 38 million metric tonnes of coal last year - is hypocritical in forcing truckers to upgrade trucks out-of-pocket while doing little to reduce other greenhouse gas emissions.
