California 53' trailer skirts law?

For trailers subject to the regulation:
• 2011 and newer MY 53-foot or longer box-type trailers must be either o SmartWay certified or o Retrofitted with SmartWay verified technologies, as follows:  Low rolling resistance tires, and  Aerodynamic technologies
• 2010 and older MY 53-foot or longer box-type trailers (with the exception of certain 2003 to 2009 MY refrigerated-van trailers) must meet the same aerodynamic technology requirements as 2011 and newer MY trailers, unless they previously registered to phase-in their compliance over time.
• 2010 and older MY trailers must use SmartWay verified low rolling resistance tires by January 1, 2017.
• 2003 to 2009 MY refrigerated-van trailers equipped with 2003 or newer MY transport refrigeration units have a compliance phase-in between 2017 and 2019.

Who is not affected by the regulation? The regulation does not apply to the following:
• Military tactical vehicles
• Curtain side vans
• Authorized emergency vehicles
• Solid waste vehicles
• Drayage tractors and trailers that operate within a 100 mile radius of a port or intermodal rail yard
• Drop frame vans
• Container chassis

 

so a 53' flatbed has to have those gay looking skirts on them in California? Good Lord

 

I thought somewhere I read that they don't have to. There is more. Was just to lazy this time of morning to copy and paste it all from the google search.

 

Why are curtain side vans excluded, and why are basically all container trailers excluded?

 

No, it applies only to "box type trailers."

And a container chassis is not box type trailer either, so it doesn't apply to them.

 

Effing idiots in that state. Next week they'll mandate purple socks, the week after that it will be how many teeth you can have....

 

I don't think the rule applies to open deck trailers.

 

Well you dont have to go there.

 

Nope! That's in Kentucky....