California In A Nutshell

Your chances of getting caught in a CARB truck check are very small. They usually set up at open scales or sometimes in rest areas. If they're up everybody will be talking about it on the CB.
They seldom work nights or weekends and I've never seen them out in rainy or cold weather.
That being said, if you do get caught you'll wish you never came to California. The fines and penalties are huge.

 

I'm not really sure. The few times that we've been inspected we passed and got a little sticker along with a paper showing the inspection details.
The way I understand it if you don't pass you're issued a citation. To get the citation cleared you have to show proof of correction, kind of like a fixit ticket.
The CARB inspectors have access to DMV files but I don't know how that would work with out of state trucks.
I've heard that if an out of stater gets inspected and fails that there really isn't much they can do to demand correction. If the truck goes out of California and never gets corrected I don't think they can do anything. But..if the truck comes back into California there's a data base that will show non compliance. I wouldn't want to be that guy.
Like I said, I really don't know a lot of this for sure. It's just what I hear and what little I've learned from the CARB guys themselves.
One thing everybody agrees on is that the fines for non-compliance are brutal.

 

Enforcement Information | The Truckstop

 

And if you want to see case settlements and how much this ####ing state steals money from people.. here are the settlements
Enforcement: 2018 Case Settlements

 

Evidently they use (or at least threaten with) the court systems.......

U.S. EPA settles with three trucking companies over California diesel rule | US EPA

Enforcement: 2018 Case Settlements

https://www.arb.ca.gov/enf/casesett/sa/roadrunner_transportation_systems_inc_sa.pdf

 

I think Steals is the wrong word..... Extort may be more appropriate.

It's a case of if you break the law pay the fine..... Just like if it were a speeding ticket.
If you don't like the law do something to get it changed.....

 

Maybe one day it'll be a blue law. Just like you can't have an elephant sit on top of your refrigerator on sundays..... now you can't drive dirty diesels in 1 out of 50 states.

 

Do you know how many times the CARB has been sued by trucking companies? California literally gives 2 ####s about what ANYONE thinks.. They do what they do, when they want to do it and have no reason to why and don't care the effects it has on people. California doesn't have money for textbooks in schools or fixing the roads here, so they raise taxes on fuel etc to pay for it... But the CARB somehow found a way to give companies that surrender their dirty truck to them and gave the company $50k PER TRUCK.. and we're not talking about giving that money to small companies.. Im talking Safeway, Costco, Walmart etc.