The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened the comment period for the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) request for a waiver for their Advanced Clean Fleet (ACF) rule. A waiver is required because...
FED ZEV REQUIREMENTS
The federal government has entered the fray and has established Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) sales mandates for trucks. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced their Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for...
BUCKEYES SAY “NO WAY”
Legislators in Ohio have passed a law banning the state's agencies, municipalities or counties from adopting any vehicle emissions standards established by CARB. Crazy enough, thirteen states plus the District of...
LAWSUITS & LEGISLATION
The US House of Representatives passed legislation overriding the waivers the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted California's Air Resources Board (CARB) to ban gas and diesel powered vehicles. While the bill...
CARB CONFORMS
You may have heard about California Air Resources Board's (CARB) recent agreement with the truck and engine manufacturers. If not, here is a quick recap: The agreement aligns California's NOx standards with those of...
CALIFORNIA DREAM GETTING SUED
The long reach of the California Air Resources Board's (CARB) regulations and their impact to fleets across the country are resulting in lawsuits. Folks are sick of California setting the defacto national standard....
READINESS MATTERS
The above video is a snippet of Chris Spears, President American Trucking Associations (ATA), testimony on Capitol Hill regarding the impracticality of California's sweeping proposal to require zero emission trucks...
WE AIM HIGH
We have been a SmartWay Partner for some time and are pleased to announce we have been named a SmartWay High Performer. What is a SmartWay High Performer? While thousands of companies partner with the Environmental...
WHY IS DIESEL MORE EXPENSIVE?
While still crazy-high, gasoline prices are slowly coming down, but diesel remains stubbornly high...more than $2/gallon higher than last year and more than $1/gallon above gasoline prices. Why is that? For three main...
THE LONG ARM OF CARB
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) creates truck engine and emission standards more strict than the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) then enforces these standards on every truck serving or entering the...