This is a friendly reminder to all drivers based or operating in California: The CARB deadline is approaching! If you’re driving a reefer unit without a CARB approved filter after the end of this month, you’ll be slapped with a fine.
So any carrier or driver running a 2007 model year or older reefer will need to upgrade their diesel particulate filter unless you have been issued a compliance extension. As always though, you can’t apply for the extension once the deadline of October 31st has passed, so if you need one, apply now… or just upgrade your filter.
To qualify for an extension until the end of the year, you have to register your reefer units with CARB and submit your application here.
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Keep writing rules! Congress needs to get a grip on the out of control F.M.C.S.A. There are thousands of useless laws!
What planet are you on or what have you been smoking?? Congress or FMCSA has nothing to do with CARB!!
That is totally from the STUPID state of California and really has nothing else to do with the rest of the country.
I still say truck owners need to do one of 2 things, or both, refuse to haul freight in/out of Calif. or slap a 50 percent surcharge on all freight to/from Calif..
I used to charge a 25 percent surcharge on all Calif. freight even as far back as early 90’s because of their stupid BS. My customers didn’t really like it but they paid it and I had plenty of loads in/out of that damn state.
Stand up for yourselves and quite being a bunch of wimps.
No government especially a state government will force me to spend money to add a emission device to a engine that was deemed perfectly legal in all states when it was made. Its bad enough I have to pay a higher price for engines today because of the emissions and that those added costs don’t end with just the parts. No the added maintenance and repairs that come with those emission parts also affects my profits. Once the federal EPA sets the requirements for engine emissions. They should be set in stone and no state should be allowed to change them. We are talking about minor differences in particle emissions, but major expenses to address one state’s claim this will save the planet on my dime won’t fly with me. I won’t travel to California….
Let me see if I read this right. Register your unit with carb, then apply for an exstention (that they will deny). Sounds to me like they are trying to make it easier for themselves to find noncompliant units. I wish I owned land just this side of the CA state line. Just wait there are going to be warehouses there just like at the Mexico border and just about the only people going there will be from CA.
Ever been to Sparks, Nevada (near Reno)? Just over the California border. Just like you say; massive warehouses for businesses operating in California. No inventory tax. Business friendly…
CARB (California Air Resources Board) is an example of fascism that is alive and well in Kalifornia…we are stocking up on ammo out here…but we have to buy it over the border in Nevada 🙂