* USA - Rules and Regulations, in California: ‘Truck-n-Bus’ fiasco
* All-heavy duty diesels must be replaced with 2010 engine models or newer
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Sacramento,CAL,USA -Daily Caller. by Tim Donnelly Assemblyman -5 Aug 2013: -- Think the Golden State has come up with every possible regulation known to man? Not quite yet. As the California Air and Resources Board’s 2008 global warming regulations begin to phase in, California’s trucking industry will be virtually exterminated... The state’s top-down public policies have made California one of the worst states to live and own a business. Its burdensome business regulations, taxes, and laws have made the state the butt of jokes in the advertising campaigns of more pro-business states like Texas and Florida... Meanwhile, California’s Air and Resources Board (CARB), established the statewide “On-Road Heavy Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation,” or the “truck-n-bus rule,” the grandfather of the agency’s numerous sub-regulations imposed on vehicles with diesel engines... But all of this will only buy you time until January 2023 – the infamous date when all-heavy duty diesels must be replaced with 2010 engine models or newer. Up to this final date, there is a timeline which phases out the older non-2010 engines. By 2015, all trucks equipped with an engine older than 1993 must replace the engine with a 2010 model. And by 2016, all trucks operating with a 1994 or 1995 engine must do the same...
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