{"id":28746,"date":"2022-01-10T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/union-seeks-two-year-reprieve-on-port-of-vancouver-ban-on-trucks-more-than-10-years-old\/28746\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:43:19","slug":"union-seeks-two-year-reprieve-on-port-of-vancouver-ban-on-trucks-more-than-10-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/union-seeks-two-year-reprieve-on-port-of-vancouver-ban-on-trucks-more-than-10-years-old\/28746\/","title":{"rendered":"Union seeks two-year reprieve on Port of Vancouver ban on trucks more than 10 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>As of February 1, the Port of Vancouver, Canada\u2019s largest port, will ban all container trucks older than 10 years from port grounds. The ban will \u201cforce hundreds of container trucks out of the Metro Vancouver port transportation system,\u201d according to Unifor, the union that represents truck drivers at the port. This \u201cwill cause chaos in a system already under unique pressure from the pandemic, flooding and supply chain issues,\u201d says the union.<\/p>\n<p>Unifor is looking for action on this issue from the federal government. Jerry Dias, Unifor National President, said, \u201cWithout action from Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, gridlock will overtake Vancouver\u2019s ports.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The union is demanding \u201cconsultations about the fairest way to transition the trucks without causing major financial hardship for truck drivers,\u201d it said in a statement. It hopes to achieve \u201ca two-year pause to the phase-out and access to financial assistance\u201d for owner-operators.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\"> <script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });<\/script> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\">\n<span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/canada\/\" rel=\"tag\">Canada<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of February 1, the Port of Vancouver, Canada\u2019s largest port, will ban all container trucks older than 10 years from port grounds. The ban will \u201cforce hundreds of container trucks out of the Metro Vancouver port transportation system,\u201d according to Unifor, the union that represents truck drivers at the port. This \u201cwill cause chaos &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/28232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}