Cash for Clunkers

Cash 4 Cars Akron is a company that buys cars for cash. As a junk vehicle buyer, we allow you to sell a car for cash and include free towing. Our next story relates to auto recycling, in this case a “cash for clunkers” program sponsored by the Port of Baltimore. You may recall the federal governments such program, which was executed on a much larger scale. The goal was to reduce the number of old vehicles from the road and replace them with options that are friendlier to the environment. The primary goals of the feds program were as follows:

Boost sales within the struggling US auto industry
Improve the overall fuel economy of the vehicles on the road
To replace vehicles that likely generated more harmful emissions

On March 31, 2015 Rick Seltzer with bizjournals.com posted an article titled ‘The Port of Baltimore is paying truck owners to get their polluting big rigs off the road’ with the following information: “Call it dollars for diesels. The Port of Baltimore is spending on an effort to replace older diesel trucks hauling cargo around its facilities with newer, cleaner-running vehicles. The concept is similar to the federal government’s famed cash for clunkers initiative that tried to boost auto sales—public money goes to private owners who scrap their old vehicles & upgrade.

But the port program isn’t trying to increase truck sales. It’s attempting to improve air quality around the port. The port is putting an additional $500,000 into the program, it announced Tuesday. It will give short-haul dray truck owners & operators as much as $20,000 to replace older vehicles with newer, cleaner-running trucks. The $500,000 will go toward replacing roughly 22 diesel trucks, the port estimates. Sources of funding for the latest cash infusion into the program include a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Existing state money from the Transportation Trust Fund makes up the remaining $300,000.

The truck replacement program has previously scrapped 100 older trucks since February 2012. The port estimates it has cut yearly air emissions by about 108 tons of nitrogen oxide, 29 tons of carbon monoxide, 4 tons of particulate matter and 4 tons of hydrocarbons.

Trucks must have model years between 1990 and 2003 to qualify. They also have to be in working condition before being scrapped. The port weighs program applicants based in part on truck age and the number of trips a vehicle takes at its terminals. Replacement trucks have to meet or exceed 2007 EPA emission standards. A $20,000 incentive doesn’t cover the full cost of a replacement truck. That typically ranges from $40,000 to $70,000, according to the port.”
The full article is available by visiting here: http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2015/03/31/the-port-of-baltimore-is-paying-truck-owners-to.html

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