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Originally Posted by drift freaq
This is true. CARB and the legislator have a habit of legislating regulations without really doing feasibility studies. That's one of the biggest problems concerning vehicles in the state right now.
They are also bought off by the farm lobby to ignore polluting farm machinery which in the central valley spews pollution like its going out of style.
I will say though that I do not agree completely with the big rig people who are complaining. Port of LA instigated a clean rig regulation and its working. Older polluting rigs are being eliminated in favor of purchasing newer clean Diesel rigs.
Fact is a lot of the Diesel rig operators complaining were as bad as the Gas station owners that were not upgrading their pumps.
The Rigs getting pulled off the road were ancient in rig terms i.e. 10-15 (i.e. millions of miles on them) year old rigs that spewed diesel particulates like they were going out of style.
Fact is the operators were just being cheap because they were already lowballing the hauling business just to try and get ahead of their competitors.
Like seen on Zilvia, Americans are trying to be cheap as shit these days, about damn near everything.
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the problem is, the big rig guys can't be proactive because we have no idea what we are going to need to become compliant. the place i work for will have to spend so much money we may not be in business after this whole thing(especially the way the economy is right now). also you know all the trucking companies will just raise the price of products or services and almost everything is transported via truck.
oh btw its not just big rigs, all offroad equipment such as loader and dozers have to be upgraded as well. i believe all heavy equipment has to be 03 or newer. these thing cost 250k or more.