Drayage Truck Best Practices to Improve Air Quality | US EPA

Drayage truckers best practices include: replacing older trucks with newer cleaner trucks, avoiding idling, maintaining engines, retrofitting trucks with verified technologies, and operating during off-peak hours.

Drayage Truck Best Practices to Improve Air Quality Best Clean Air Practices Port-wide Planning Drayage Trucks Rail Facilities Ocean-Going Vessels Cargo-Handling Equipment Harbor Craft On this page: Decrease the average age of the fleet Reduce idle and creep time Participate in the EPA SmartWay Program Consider complementary rail and marine operations Designate truck routes that avoid at-risk populations Clean Air Best Practices: Appropriateness and Effectiveness While the examples on this web page are not exhaustive, they are intended to highlight some of the more effective strategies that ha

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