Random smog inspections & assault on older trucks

did you really have to post the snitching link ?

 

epa gave carb the go ahead to enforce the smart way tech.

i'm curious as to where these nevada testing stations are though? as i have yet to see any such thing. and i drive through the state 4 times a week.

 

Come to New Jermany. Every annual registration renewal means you have 90 days to get a new emissions test sticker in the lower right windshield.

Failing to do so is a $700.00 fine plus tow & impound fees [figure another $700.00].

Additionally therre is a traveling van doing random smoke tests on the roadside, mostly in rest areas, Turnpike exits & the coops.

When they started almost every Mack running had to have the emnissions valve replaced to pass. You could reduce the fine from $1,500.00 to $700.00 if you got it fixed within 30 days. The courts made big bucks for ayear or two.

 

I feel for all the good people that work/drive/o/o in cali. I believe the term "cut your nose off to spite your face" comes into play here. what a bunch of communist cry babies the whole state has become. politics,money,greed,hipicrits ....they wont stop till everyone dies or moves outta the state.i know the majority of the o/o say "screw them,let em starve." ill never go there.

 

looks like no more rollin coal in Nevada. I wonder how many do gooders will not be smart enough to tell the difference between condensation from cold temps and actual pollution and call the number.

 

freightlinerman, as far as Jersey they have been doing "spot" testing for quite a few years. I havent been there in 5-6 years (retired) but have seen many inspections on I-80 east at the little pull off on the hill a few miles east of the water gap. They also used to work a little pull off on Fishhouse Road near the container yard at the junction of Central Avenue in Jersey City along with other areas like the Turnpike, 1-9 in and around North Bergen and surrounding areas. They would hook the sniffer into your stack and then check the readings on their computer at idle and at other rpms they wanted readings from.

 

I feel for you guys who are hanging on the hope that you will be able to run 48 states with old trucks. If you insist on running a noncompliant truck, you probably need to start looking at local/regional work. Of course that means working in an area with no emissions requirements. The window of available loads and destinations is closing, you can still get away with getting loads that keep you out of all the places that require newer trucks but two or three years from now it will be impossible to make a living hauling general freight over the road. The worst thing you can do today is get a "new" glider, you will have a $2500 truck payment for 5 years and not be able to get a load with it in 3 years... You can't sell it in America so if you're lucky you can get out from under it by selling it to a Mexican. You can forget the idea of putting DPF on that 6NZ or old Detroit.
Or you can just keep saying "i just won't run California, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Colorado, Washington, Houston, Phoenix, any port in the country, shippers who won't load old trucks..."

 

well I would have to disagree with Colorado, I go there and never have a problem getting a load. And as far as the state of Washington I live in Oregon so Washington isn't a problem either, and I have also pulled loads out of Houston. So not sure why you are having issues with loads out of these areas

 

glad you don't have a problem finding a load out of colorado. you must be an exception to the fregiht. or immune to the cheap rates.

 

You load in Denver and never pass the smoke check vans on the onramps? Colorado has not yet implemented their mysterious CARB like laws but it is only a matter of time (i give it three years at most). Every Port, City, County, and State that I mentioned either has already or will soon have some sort of clean air mandate. Some of them are hard core (2010 or newer) in place already, others are planning to slowly phase out old trucks over a few years. Bottom line, the question is this. Will you make more money with an older truck that limits what loads you can haul and where to? Or, will you make more money with a truck payment but be able to choose from every load in the country?
Every owner has different reasons for answering that however they answer it. But the answer will be more and more clear every month for the next few years (until it becomes an obvious answer).