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Two Ontario, California, logistics companies took delivery on four zero-emissions electric yard and service trucks as part of efforts to reduce air pollution in Southern California.

Ontario, California’s legal team vows that hundreds of abandoned shipping containers, illegally stored at four industrial yards in the agricultural southern part of town, will be gone by the end of the year.

Top executives at Ontario International Airport on Jan. 26 outlined their efforts to attract major Chinese courier companies to use ONT as the major gateway and hub to the U.S. and Latin American marketplaces, similar to UPS Inc. and FedEx Corp.’s domestic e-commerce operations with Amazon.

The Federal Aviation Administration has given its nod for a FedEx delivery facility at Chino Airport in San Bernardino County, California.

The union representing aircraft maintenance workers at UPS Inc., including those at the hub at Ontario International Airport, claimed in court the company has repeatedly failed to keep workers safe on the job.

Officials in Ontario, California, are continuing efforts to remove hundreds of abandoned shipping containers that have illegally been placed on properties in agricultural  areas, City Manager Al Boling said.

UPS Inc. announced Nov. 15 it will begin seasonal cargo operations out of San Bernardino International Airport for the month of December.

The UPS mechanics who service the planes that ship packages around the world began voting on Oct. 21 to authorize a strike after an impasse in negotiations over reductions in health benefits.

Some of the 15,000 steel shipping containers at the ports of Long Beach, and Los Angeles abandoned in the wake of the financial collapse of Korea-based Hanjin Shipping Co. may be headed to Ontario, California, for storage — but not without opposition from city leaders.

Trish Anderson, 53, a truck driver from Mississippi, dreams about dedicated truck lanes. A lot.