Exhaust leak in cab

That's a true statement. But it is still producing enough at idle to set off a CO detector. Enough to let you know there is an exhaust leak. CO detectors detect very low levels of CO over long periods and high amounts over a short period. It will give short beeps versus a full alarm. Walmart doesn't sell an arsenic, selenium, cadmium, mercury or a chromium detector or I would of suggested that. Diesel fumes or diesel particulate matter produces carcinogens known to lung and bladder cancer, cardiovascular disease and cardiopulmonary disease. They don't even know what the nanoparticles do yet but they know they are a health hazard. Besides sitting in the seat all day and a poor diet, this is part of why drivers have a lifespan of about 60 years old.

It's been a long time ago but I had one old Freightshaker the cab would literally fill up with smoke. It was one of our spare trucks but I always had a headache when I drove that thing. It would run though.


It sounds like the company done what I thought they would do. Typical I don't care put it off on a different driver. They don't like it when someone speaks up.

 

carbon monoxide comes from gasonline engines.

 

and most scales don't do voluntary inspections anymore.

utah and colorado are two states.

b ut you could always drive it into cali.

 

Anything that burns fossil fuels can get you just as dead or sick, including diesel.

 

... and home furnaces, charcoal grilles, tobacco, wood fires......

If CO wasn't a concern in diesel engines the FMCSA wouldn't write a rule specific just for carbon monoxide.

A car without a catalytic converter puts out about 7000 ppm CO. Here's a couple test that shows results on a diesel engine from 100-325 ppm carbon monoxide. OSHA says anything over 100 ppm is unsafe for a work environment. We're not talking a quick suicide death but a slow death. CO is a direct result from a lack of oxygen during combustion. That's why one oxygen molecule gets attached instead of two for CO2. It's not so much the material but how the material burns.

http://www.irsst.qc.ca/media/documents/pubirsst/r-436.pdf

 

The rule you posted makes no mention of engine fuel type, and there are plenty of gasoline engine CMVs in use.

 

Burn that truck to the ground. Problem solved. End of thread.