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Study * USA - Truck Emissions Regs Limited
Washington,DC,USA -Traffic World, by Paul Page -22 Sept 2008: -- Regulators looking to toughen enforcement of emissions in the trucking industry should consider the costs new restrictions would impose on small trucking companies and to shippers who may many of their transportation providers go out of business, a new report on environmental regulation says... University of California at Berkeley Professor Robert A. Kagan said in a statement on release of the report titled "Compliance Costs, Regulation, and Environmental Performance: Controlling Truck Emissions in the U.S." the report was issued as the trucking industry faces an attempt to regulate the kinds of trucks that operate at maritime ports in Southern California... Kagan says in the report published in the journal Regulation & Governance that although mandates for engine manufacturers have tightened, truckers themselves face little incentive to improve environmental performance... Although truck engine manufacturers are required by law to build truck engines that emit fewer pollutants, trucking companies are not legally obligated to use the best pollution control technologies, according to the report... Kagan said that is because the trucking industry is filled with many small companies that cannot afford to buy the newer, cleaner trucks...
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