ARB Diesel Crack Down

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  2. biofumes

    biofumes Light Load Member

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    Check your engine label.
    Inspectors wrote out a ticket for a missing engine label, which carries a $300 minimum fine for the company that owns the vehicle

    The agency sends about 20 enforcement staffers a day to conduct field inspections of trucks around the state. They target truck fleets and major transportation corridors, including the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, the Central Valley and the U.S.-Mexico border. Fines range from few hundred to thousands of dollars.
     
    baha Thanks this.
  3. 379exhd

    379exhd Road Train Member

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    His is precisely why I don't run to California. 300 for a missing engine label??? CARB and CHP need to get a life. So much for making progress with CARB.
     
  4. Flightline

    Flightline Road Train Member

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    I think they are making great progess with Carb.
    They got most us experienced guys not going there anymore and getting the newbie O/O buying new trucks. I say let those guys have that progress and more power to them.
     
  5. chalupa

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    The association “is happy to see that CARB is taking enforcement seriously to be sure the rules apply equally across the board,” Shaw said. “With a level playing field, companies can compete on services and rates rather than someone cheating the system.

    Wow ! Anyway I cut this from the article to make a point. This is the way the general trucking community ( ATA, TITA etc ) feel about O/O's, hotshots and most other independants not leased to anybody but instead running the boards. See an O/O has a lower operating cost without all the overhead associated with a mega operation like buildings, employees, utilities ...and the list goes on. This lower cost enables the O/O to cut his rate below the mega and take the freight.

    And then to really inflame the attitude is the hot shot. He has a much lower capital cost to start up and a much lower cost to operate and generally avoids the 2290 tax. Good for the hotshot and bad for the carrier. My former boss belongs to a shippers association that constantly lobbies the state police for stricter enforcement on these smaller vehicles and it's not for safety either.

    Now here's a touch of hipocracy..... one of these shipper association members owns a chemical plant and he uses yard mules to shuttle domestic tanks between facilities ...thing is these facilities are are separated by half mile down a public road. These mules are running truck plates that are no different than what's on your pick up truck. So I checked....there is no waiver that I can find to excuse this. Nothing like having your cake and eating it too huh?

    Not to worry tho...2 can play the lobby game....nuff said.

    JMO
     
  6. stranger

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    A big decently run carrier can always haul cheaper than most anyone else. According to Swift's MC-150 statement, the company ran 1,658,727,633 miles in 2012. If they only cleared (after all expenses) .05 (five cents per mile), they netted $82,936,381.65. How much would a one man band make netting .05 per mile? At 130k miles that would be $6500.00 per year.
     
  7. ironpony

    ironpony Road Train Member

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    It's called "economy of scale."
     
  8. bigdad7

    bigdad7 Road Train Member

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    Interesting thought right now is figuring a 200 k investment per power unit assuming 2 trailers plus facilities support buildings etc if interest rates hit 9 percent in the bond market investers will flee out of a 3 % return on your money.....
    Also right now the megas are surviving on cheap borrowing ability a bump in interest rates could wipe out their economy of scale in a heartbeat i would think
     
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