The Port of New Orleans launched the Clean Truck Replacement Incentive Program (Clean TRIP) in 2016 offering incentives for voluntary replacement of drayage trucks that service cargo terminals and warehouses along the Mississippi River and the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal. The grant process includes the scrapping of the older inefficient vehicles. The first of about 19 trucks to be scrapped was laid to rest Dec. 1, 2016, at Almonaster Salvage Yard in New Orleans.
Clean TRIP enables truck and fleet owners to voluntarily invest in cleaner air through early truck replacement with cleaner models, year 2012 or newer. Truck driver/owners who successfully applied for the program received a grant worth 50 percent of the vehicle sale cost (up to $35,000). Clean TRIP is part of the $727,000 Clean Diesel competitive grant from
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
