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The port authority in the Canadian west coast city of Vancouver is restricting access to the docks area by older and more polluting trucks.
From January 1 container-carrying heavy trucks built before 1989 are being excluded, while from January 2009 those manufactured before 1994 will be barred.
An indication that smoke is the prime concern comes with the warning that newer age qualifying vehicles will also be subject to random exhaust opacity checks. The Vancouver authorities say the aim is, by 2010, to reduce overall PM emission levels to US EPA 1994 standards and, by 2015, to have 80 percent of trucks serving the port achieving today's North American (EPA 2007) PM requirements.
Targets would have to be met either through the purchase of new and necessarily cleaner vehicles, or through the retrofitment of approved-standard particulate traps.
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