Truckers Talk Safety On Area Interstates
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The emissions saga continues..the gloves are off
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To the Trucking Industry:
We had a decade to prepare for 2010 emissions standards and all but one heavy-duty trucking manufacturer invested the time, money and brainpower to develop the best technology to meet stringent new requirements. All but one manufacturer, Navistar, came to the same solution that would best serve you, our trucking industry customers of North America.
Although we're competitors, the rest of us understood the importance of the larger cause, and we worked together to do our part to improve air quality for the safety of future generations. How can Navistar claim it's concerned about the environment while its proposed 2010 product spews two and a half times the 2010 NOx standard into the air we breathe every day?
Manufacturers, suppliers, government agencies and associations invested time and resources to develop innovations to achieve the emissions goal in spite of economic challenges because we know it's the right thing to do.
Navistar is selling thousands of pre-2010 engines, while the rest of the industry is selling EPA 2010-certified products. Navistar apparently has no EPA-compliant emissions technology for 2010 and beyond, at least nothing that does not use credits to achieve compliance.
Don't trucking industry customers of North America deserve better?
We believe you do. And, as an industry that prides itself on professionalism, integrity and honesty, we have every reason to demand the same of Navistar.
Learn more about SCR and watch real customers discuss the benefits of this technology, or see our full-page ad in the August 9th edition of Transport Topics for our complete statement on this issue.
Respectfully,
Daimler Trucks North America LLC
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finally government legislation that might actually help the trucking industry
Senate Bill Would Allow Heavier Trucks
From Transport TopicsMeasure Backed by ATA, Shippers’ Group
Sens. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) said in introducing the Safe Efficient Transportation Act that states would be allowed to “opt in” and increase their weight limits to 97,000 pounds.
The legislation is identical to a bill introduced in the House last March by Reps. Michael Michaud (D-Maine) and Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) and would require the new, heavier trucks to have six axles in order to diffuse the added weight.
“This bipartisan legislation strikes the right balance between productivity and safety,” Kohl said in a statement.
The bill is backed by American Trucking Associations and the Coalition for Transportation Productivity, a shippers’ group, the two said in statements Thursday.
“ATA supports a number of reforms to federal truck size and weight regulations as part of our Sustainability Initiative,” said ATA President Bill Graves.
“More efficient trucks, like those allowed under this legislation, will significantly reduce the trucking industry’s carbon output,” he said in a statement.
Senate Bill Would Allow Heavier Trucks | Transport Topics Online | Trucking, Freight Transportation and Logistics News
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