CARB and Brokers

Except it's not going the reverse, knowing that a driver is CARB Compliant is not showing up in rates going to CA, they are still suppressed by a lot

 

Every broker was required to start this on 1/1/13. Going to be hard to enforce the broker end unless you have a nexus in CA. We started requireing the last 8 of the truck vin# a few months ago,reefer checked @ carb for compliance and a rate confirmation that states the trailer meets carb specs.

Sunday night they had 7 trucks at the Yermo bug station shut down for the reefers. We have cross docked a few onto our trailers last year.

 

We only do it on loads into,out of,or intrastate CA. Some of the carriers that we load a lot have given the truck/trailer and reefer info to us before ever doing a load there. Our dispatch system will show CARB compliant as soon as you enter the carrier.

Many of our shippers are checking the equipment as it comes in for compliance. We've already had a couple of carriers give false info and then get turned away at the shipper.

 

You wouldn't belive how many say they never heard anything about it. Even the ones that run for us every week. I've had one person in the office do nothing but help them register since the middle of december.

 

* yawn *

It will balance out just like every other stupid regulation CA imposes on commerce. You're original statement is based on the false pretense that CA sets the standard for the rest of North America, when in fact the reverse is probably more accurate.

Flagging tractor age may give them greater leverage on pricing westbound loads to or near CA, but that's about it. Broader impact will not occur for the same reasons there will never be an independent embargo on cheap rates.

A more likely scenario IMO will be the major DCs shut down all but a few CA facilities, and serve them with CARB compliant equipment. Places like Yuma, Vegas, and Reno will become the next "border towns."

I know for a fact that CHR cross-docks FL-bound freight in ATL. Move it cheaper to ATL and only take the rate hit on the shorter leg into FL. Since we don't move far enough west to know first hand, I can only guess they already are doing the same thing outside of CA.

 

It's crazy how a CA carrier doesn't have a clue about CARB regs, you said they just bought 40 trucks year models 2000-2003 wow man and all they run is CA freight, what a huge mistake...... That one goes back to something discussed a long time ago that a lot of these mom and pop carriers, even if they've been in the game for decades, lots of them don't have any business aptitude and it's amazing they get by as they do.. In that respect it's not hard to believe at all...

 

Red you really need to get some rose colored lenses you're killing us lol