Hmmm, Ney York, Oakland, New Jersey, Florida all support Los Angeles's well-thought through comprehensive and viable long term plan.
Nobody is interested in Long Beach's "Stinky and the blobs scheme" that satisfies the trucking industry at the expense of the human beings who operate the trucks, the motoring public and the environment.

Oops I meant to type wrong beach.

Amazing how wrong beach could have just sailed behind LA's draft in the legal action, but that would have displeased the out of town interests who own blob and control steinke and crew.
Only Mr. Cordero can hold his head high.

I have spoken to hundreds of owner-operators, and every single one wants a real job with fair pay, benefits, workers compensation, and the protections as an employee that the law provides.

Any owner operator who still wants to be an owner operator is most probably not able to secure a TWIC card due to a criminal record or illegal residency status. I don't want these "unknown" or "unsavory" individuals working 30 feet away from ocean-going freighters.

When I started working in the ports over 30 years ago 95% of the drivers were company employees, and no security guards were utilized, except at in/out gates. Now each terminal needs scores inside to maintain order. A marine terminal is a very dangerous place now.Independent truckers, rushing and racing around to try to make a few bucks, are constantly running into each other at times fatally.

One day wrong beach will learn the hard way. Los Angeles truckers will be fairly compensated, and the wrong beach owner operators, sick of being second class citizens, will abandon wrong beach container terminals. Even if that happens for only a month, how much will that hurt the port of wrong beach? Los Angeles will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Let's not forget who to thank:
hankla
walter
blob
stinky steinke
topsy-elvord
sramek
wise

In Kris's article that's $12 BEFORE taxes the owner operators receive.

What Kris doesn't know is that it's common knowledge that a few well-known tax preparers, heavily utilized by port truckers, provide false receipts for repairs, allowing these outlaws to falsely reduce their schedule C taxable income and receive a refund due to an EITC (earned income tax credit). Additionally, these owner operators qualify for all forms public assistance.

What a great deal for the truck brokers, with their "independent contractors" they have even wal-mart beat for gaming the system.
They fit right in with the wrong beach style of business.

wrong beach, the "business friendly city".

WHAT A JOKE!