CARB question.

Temporarily? Been going there every week since 2009 from Phx, and will continue to do so until someone with a badge & gun tells me I can no longer enter the state.

I have an '01 Volvo with an N-14-no emissions on that engine. There are trucks much older than mine running around LA everywhere!!

 

I've been running a steady series of loads to Cali for the past few months and I can tell you they would have to mobilize the national guard to stop every non-compliant truck on the road out there. You may just have bad luck and get stopped but I'd guess the chances of that happening are very slim just based on observation. I did see a truck with a blue "CARB" sticker on it, kind of like a CVSA decal, but so far this year I haven't seen a single Air Cop anywhere in the state doing inspections.

As far as your original question, I know nothing about any temporary allowance for non-compliant trucks other than the people who have an exemption because they couldn't get financing or the retro fit filters in time to comply.

 

3 day exemption

http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/onrdiesel/documents/tb_12-1138_three_day_pass_form.pdf

Found only that but You know probably already...

 

California did have a program to extend the emission standard until 2014. That was if you applied by June of 2012, Some dates like that. I don't run California so don't keep track of silly rules like that.

 

I was talking to a driver in Barstow and one of their o/o was fined by Carb for being in CA with a non compliant truck, they mailed him the ticket after they tracked his truck in CA by a level 1 inspection at a scale, they now are going to paper chase and fine trucks by not even using field inspectors, the driver said the ticket was 150 bucks and will be more each time they catch him there.

 

I got fined $380 for idling at the T/A in Coachella a couple years back. I was a 120 degrees outside and I went to go get a shower and when I got out a white van was parked next to my truck. Truck was compliant and everything. Got the ticket in the mail and sent in proof that I was compliant and never had to pay. CARB is a total joke and is just another scam.

 

I have a '01 Volvo with a N14 also, and run LA to Phoenix since 2007 and have had no issues with CARB Enforcement Officers, as a matter of fact I haven't seen any around for a few years.

 

How about for TRU's wanting to load in CA? Do they need some kind of proof to give to the shipper that they are compliant? I heard shipper's and brokers ask for this before they load the carrier.