CA legal cabovers?

I see some Freightliner Argosy's around, but when I looked it up, it said they are only available as gliders in North America, so not sure how they do it

 

I see Dirksen running cabovers here in CA.

 

Those are the one I saw too. Aren't they part of Gardner ?

 

I guess so. I looked it up. Don't know much about them other than seeing them around.

 

I looked into it pretty hard for an account that I had could have really used a cabover, Argosy was/is as close as you can get and NONE of them were emissions legal in cali. "as sold new" I believe last new Argosy you could buy was a late 06 sold as 07's.

Anything after that is a glider, I am familiar with the Gardner trucks, they bought several Argosy Powered glider kits with 12.7 Detroit's and then had a company out there add passive DPF's to them.

I guess it worked, but VERY expensive to do, and even those trucks will be "out" of the legal window shortly.

 

I've heard the new Argosy is exempt in CA as they can't be purchased with the current emissions system.

If that were true I'd imagine seeing alot more of them in CA.