VanPort lifts cap on truck licenses, fleet size
VANCOUVER – In response to improving container volumes, the moratorium on fleet sizes and operating licenses for drayage carriers working the Port of Vancouver will be lifted on Jan. 4 2011 in some circumstances, Port Metro Vancouver (PMV) has announced.
The moratorium for new licences or permits for independent owner-operators remains in place, however.
The moratorium, which froze the number of "new" permit applications carriers can apply for and regulates fleet sizes, was put in place in Jan. 2007 and expanded in 2009 as part of the controversial truck licensing system.
The licensing system was brought in by Transport Canada (and is enforced by PMV) to appease 1,200 CAW-backed independent operators that went on two-month strike in 2005.
The B.C. Trucking Association has strongly opposed the moratorium "and has regularly communicated this position" to PMV, the province and Transport Canada.
The port says it will continue to review the moratorium in line with market conditions.
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