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Miami, port terminal drop suits against owner-operators
By Jill Dunn
Miami-Dade County and Universal Terminal have withdrawn lawsuits against Miami port owner-operators whose protest shut down Miami’s port this past summer.
The suits were withdrawn after a blue-ribbon commission investigated port complaints and sided with the truckers.
Tomas Regalado, the Miami City Commission chairman, led a hearing where the owner-operators told of skyrocketing diesel prices, unsafe chassis and extensive wait times without compensation. They also stated they were forced to haul overloaded containers.
About 500 of the truckers were represented by the non-profit Support Trucking Group, and many are Cuban immigrants. The truckers had documented years of attempts to solve the problems.
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