EPA Crackdown on Deleted Trucks

Sure enough. I like clean air as well, but before they shoved these regulations down our throats it seems they should have given the manufactures time to make these trucks more reliable than a 1981 Ford Pinto.

 

Oh that's right you're pulling one of them around.

 

Not a good comparison. Over consumption of urea will drop a cow in her tracks. We are way off subject here to me.
In my simple mind I wonder these things.
1: With these advanced fuel and electronic systems why are we not much more advanced in fuel economy than 20 years ago?
2: How much energy is consumed manufacturing all of the emission control devices and how does that relate to pollution?
3: Some truck owners have had major financial problems due to the failure of some of these systems. As well as shippers and receivers. How has that affected our national economy?
4: Ethanol sounded great to me at first. After it cost me a lot of money I have my own non E tank at home. Still buy pump gas for the daily drivers.
5: If these new trucks were to be made as efficient as possible without a lot of the emission equipment would we not be better off.
Yes I know there is still the NOX but how much is generated manufacturing and maintaining this stuff? Sure am glad there are polititions to make a those tough decisions for me. They have time to figure those things out while they are riding around in jets, polluting the air.

 

just think how much cleaner the air would be if you weren’t using a 450hp Diesel engine to unload that bulk tank. A 30 hp electric motor would do.....

 

My comment was somewhat tongue in cheek because it was said that it’s harmful to breathe my exhaust, yet if you consume commercially fed cattle you’re eating something that consumes urea as part of the feed ration.

 

Thankfully I’m using a 510 Paccar and that’s way better than electric.

 

omg. These sky is falling threads are seriously hilarious. This is all dependant on where you live. HAs been going on for years. Maybe jersey, california and new york. But elsewhere, nobody is gonna undue their deletes. Especially local haulers. No, the sky isnt fallings. OHHHH the hype. Whats next, if you own 2006 or below truck, you BETTER install a dpf. Yeah ok
Media scare tactics and hype like AR-15's

 

They get lots of time. They just put it off until the last minute then dump a minimum viable product in the customer's lap.

 

My friend, thats a risk all deleters take. But there isnt one owner operator that i know of that ever had a cop check his truck out for emissions equipment. One of my friends has a few newer trucks that has the components still there for a visuall but they are hallowed out and still pass a sniff test in jersey. But they never really check for under hood. They just use a sniffer. OLd 3406 motors in his fleet pass the sniff test.