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PROGNOSIS * USA - New emissions standards could hurt truck manufacturer sales
Next regulations will take effect in 2010
Fort Wayne,YX,USA -nwitimes.com (Munster,IN,USA) -Jan 14, 2007: -- The air should get significantly cleaner in the coming years as diesel trucks run on cleaner engines and low-sulfur fuel. But the change doesn't come without some costs... Based on new federal Environmental Protection Agency laws, commercial diesel engines produced after Jan. 1 must produce 95 percent less chemical nitrogen oxide from the exhaust. The engines also must eliminate 90 percent of soot and ash... The new requirements are one of a set of three increasingly stringent emissions requirements. The first requirements took effect in 2002, and the next ones will take effect in 2010... Because engines manufactured before 2007 do not have to comply with the new regulations, many truck companies bought more trucks and equipment last year than they needed. The demand created a mini sales boom of sorts for manufacturers, but some of those same companies are now cutting production -- and laying off or buying out workers...
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