Comment period opens on EPA rule to protect glider trucks from emissions regs
Truckers and other industry stakeholders have until January 5 to file formal comments on the EPA’s proposal to exempt glider kit vehicles from the Phase 2 tractor-trailer emissions standards enacted...
View ArticleComments to EPA on repealing glider kit emissions regs due Friday night
Truckers looking to file formal comments on an EPA proposal to rollback Obama-era emissions regulations placed on glider kit vehicles have until late Friday night to do so. The EPA’s plan would rescind...
View ArticleCalifornia ‘clean trucks’ model creeping toward ports in Washington state
Efforts are in place at Pacific Northwest-area ports to ban pre-2007 trucks, potentially as soon as this April. Drivers serving the ports have announced opposition and protest efforts.
View Article‘Clean trucks’ program at Washington ports gets extension to 2019 with...
Announced last week, the Northwest Seaport Alliance offered owners as yet noncompliant with the requirement to utilize 2007 and later emissions-spec engines by April 1 an extension through to January 1...
View ArticleStudy used in glider emissions reversal under review, school tells EPA
Tennessee Technological University, paid by Fitzgerald Glider Kits to perform a study measuring the exhaust emissions of glider kit trucks, has told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to...
View ArticleCARB to block DMV registration of pre-2011 trucks starting 2020
The new “health-based requirements” will need to be met before a driver is allowed to register his or her truck through the Department of Motor Vehicles, CARB says. For older vehicles, CARB says they...
View ArticleNew network for emissions-maintenance service
Clean Diesel Specialists, Inc., a California-based diesel emissions services company, has launched its North American Network of licensed emissions-service centers to provide branded maintenance for...
View ArticleNew purchase: Trucking under warranty until retirement
Jerry Boyd, leased to Bennett Motor Express, last month was on the verge of trading his 2016 ProStar for a new truck to close his trucking career under a five-year 500,000-mile warranty.
View ArticleBill to establish $25,000 penalty for operating a CARB-noncompliant glider...
The legislation, numbered AB 2364 in the California General Assembly and put forward with support of the state trucking association, moved out of the Committee on Transportation with no dissenting...
View ArticleAfter losing legal appeal, CARB is voiding some compliance alternatives added...
The time has expired for legal appeals to save CARB's 2014-introduced "compliance alternatives" to the engine upgrades and retrofits required by its in-use diesel regs. Emails attempting to clarify the...
View ArticleEPA asked to investigate alleged improper contact between EPA staffers, Volvo...
Lawmakers from the U.S. House have sent letters to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requesting that the agency investigate potential improper contacts between EPA staffers and Volvo Trucks...
View ArticleTrucking rap sheet: Three plead guilty to disabling emissions control devices
Action in three trucking-related crimes has recently been reported by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General including accounting and securities fraud, a CDL testing scheme and...
View ArticleWith new leadership and court challenge, EPA says it will enforce glider kit...
Nixing a decision issued just three weeks prior, the U.S. EPA on Friday said it will enforce the 300-truck annual limit placed on glider kit manufacturers by Phase 2 emissions regulations, meaning...
View ArticleShare of clean diesels in U.S. truck fleet nears 40 percent
According to new research from the Diesel Technology Forum, Class 3-8 trucks model years 2011 and newer made up 36 percent of all commercial trucks on the road at the end of last year – a jump of 6...
View ArticleEPA investigating concerns about glider kit emissions research
EPA said Tuesday it will investigate questions surrounding a 2017 study used to justify regulations that cap annual production of glider kit trucks. Lawmakers from the House's Oversight Committee asked...
View ArticleMaking sense of the winding storyline of glider kit emissions regs
Studies, proposed rules, Congressional letters, court injunctions, on-again/off-again enforcement — the saga over whether the EPA should regulate the production and sale of glider kits has seen its...
View ArticleConcept from Cummins would dramatically cut emissions, company says
Cummins announced a concept diesel emissions system Wednesday at the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show in Hannover, Germany, that the company says will increase fuel efficiency and dramatically reduce...
View ArticleBully Dog parent company to pay $6.5M to settle alleged emissions-defeating...
Derive Systems, created in 2014 via the merger of Bully Dog and SCT, says the charges pertain only to cars and light-duty trucks and did not encompass heavy-duty Class 8 vehicles.
View ArticleU.S. reps ask for probe into EPA’s use of pro-glider kits study
The study was produced last year by Tennessee Tech University (TTU) and funded by Fitzgerald Glider Kits. The lawmakers cite potential conflicts of interest between TTU and Fitzgerald, among other...
View ArticleVolvo: Emissions systems running into ‘degradation’ issues, company...
Volvo Group, the global umbrella company of Volvo Trucks North America, has discovered that components of its emissions control systems are degrading “more quickly than expected,” which could cause the...
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