Posted on 01/02/2013 10:19:17 AM PST by lward99
California rang in the New Year by placing certain truck engines, trailers, tires and even entire vehicles on its environmental out list — requiring motor carriers to spend tens of thousands of dollars on new equipment that may never meet the state's ambitious objectives.
The new rules apply to trucks registered in other states — and even other countries.
“The state is forcing certain trucking companies and operators to make investments that are going to add cost with no return with regard to fuel efficiency, and therefore no impact on their desired policy operative,” said Steve Laskowski, senior vice president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance.
Read more: http://times247.com/articles/23calif-regulations-forcing-trucks-off-the-road9#ixzz2GqLAMXDJ
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There are apparently also permit fees based on the size of your fleet. My son told me the local well pump place had to get rid of one of its rigs as it put them over the threshold.
Sounds like a plan! When shall you attain office in the Peoples’ Committee for Energy, Environment, and Fuzzy Slippers?
Nuclear Powered Trucks would be required, Batteries would never cope with the distances.
They could use Solar............oh look! A Unicorn...
That would be nice.
Wish businesses would get the hint.
I wish, I’d charge Cali a double rate for my time and spend most of it trolling the beaches for cheap laughs.
Californistan deserves to have businesses flee in droves.
Sadly, our server is there.
Would be nice for there to be a contingency plan to extract and relocate to a safer location.
The railroads may benefit.
more union workers! that’s a great idea!
If you bought it, then a truck brought it.
GOOD!
Stop delivering in California and you won’t have to pay their damn taxes and fuel prices either.
1 Million fewer trucks working in California ought to make an impression at some point.
You're right. The MSM - a group that prides itself on knowing what's going on - won't be fed this story by their dem handlers. Guess the New York Times and Washington Post will 'miss' this one - and all it implies...
The beauty of that hideous idea is that the battery powered freight vehicles would be broken down or bricked most of the time.
It would force Cali under in no time flat.
Being the “most progressive state” they would doggedly continue trying to make it work until the place overturned in blood and fire.
Plus, add the battery powered vehicles to the already crippled power system in Cali, and the state would be an electricity black hole.
It’s a plan to cripple Cali.
I know, I was adding that the unions would jump on that idea and that would cripple the State even faster. I just moved out of Cali last summer, it got to the point that the weather and beauty couldn’t outweigh the lunacy anymore and I was tired of helping to pay to finance it.
You can be sure that the Mexican trucks coming into CA will be exempt. The Free Traders who push NAFTA will take CA to NAFTA Court over this law....of course the Free Trader Commies could care less a about the US truckers affected. Would not be surprised that this CA law was passed to go after US trucks specifically
Cloward and Piven, Chapter 1125.
Bankrupt the most prosperous state in the Union by not letting them exploit their own resources, create a huge Government bureaucracy, illegal alien sanctuary, 1/3 of all welfare cases and then strangle yourself with regulations.
My tin hat is sparkling today.
If this is a way to get unsafe Mexican trucks off the road, that is a benefit. If it’s just to kill American truckers, I can’t support it.
That’d be it.
And Californistan will do it to itself willingly.
You escaped, excellent!
Wonder if we’ll have to do an Underground Railroad system to help other get out of Cali at some point in teh near future.
I take it you think blowing off the PORTS of Long Beach, San Pedro, Oakland, Stockton, Richmond, and San Diego is of no consequence to the rest of the nation? Really?
Won't happen, at least not until Mexico can grab that business. As things are, they can't possibly handle the volume.
Trust me, they’ll do something similarly stupid to the ports.
Give them a moment, they’ll think of it.
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