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California plans to ban diesel truck fleets

November 23, 2022

By JOSH FRIEDMAN

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has announced a plan to eventually force all diesel truck fleets off the roads in the Golden State. [SF Gate]

CARB is proposing a package of regulations called Advance Clean Fleets, which would mandate that all new trucks operating around busy railways and ports be zero-emission vehicles by 2024. The regulations would phase out all diesel trucks from those areas by 2035 and kick all diesel truck and bus fleets off California roads, where feasible, by 2045.

The busiest trucking areas in the state, which would be targeted first, include locations around warehouses, sea ports and railways. CARB says communities in those areas are disproportionately affected by pollution.

“Many California neighborhoods, especially Black and Brown, low-income and vulnerable communities, live, work, play and attend schools adjacent to the ports, rail yards, distribution centers and freight corridors experience the heaviest truck traffic,” the air board wrote.

Representatives of the trucking and construction industries say California does not have enough charging capability or grid capacity to transform fleets to zero-emission vehicles so quickly.


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I don’t remember voting for anybody at the CARB… I don’t even know their names or back round….

Maybe it would be better if CA politicians had the guts to stand up and propose this crazy stuff if they support it and then face the CA voters…

You know like a real democracy and republic does….


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Excellent plan. A transportation revolution is currently underway. In a few weeks, PepsiCo will begin running all-electric Tesla Semi’s up and down the 99. In fact, Tesla is set to produce 50,000 Semis at its Gigafactory in Nevada next year.


Rail company BNSF is backing a new transfer station in Barstow which will see eastbound freight in Long Beach and LA sent by rail to the desert where it will be transferred to trucks, thus mitigating much of the congestion in those ports.


And in Texas, all-electric driverless trucks from TuSimple are already delivering goods for Walmart between Dallas and San Antonio.


The future is now and will not be deterred by obstructionist Republicans who are in the back pocket of big oil. Their small majority in the House will be unable to roll back progress as the full effects of both the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and the Inflation Reduction Act begin to be felt with subsidies for new electric vehicles and billions for new infrastructure, including charging stations along the nation’s interstate highways.


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If they can get EV trucks to do the job that’s great doubtful though but still the average person can’t afford to buy these new EV’S and Big Rigs


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The Inflation Reduction Act provides a $40,000 credit for purchasing a Class 8 electric truck. The new Tesla Semi with a range of 500 miles is $180,000 so some owner-operators will afford them, but the days of the independent one-man truck are probably over. High costs and new Gig legislation will force most of them to go to work for large fleets.


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The local Coke distributor had a couple electric junkers, they got rid of them as they could not do the job,always broke down and getting towed in


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I’m gonna guess that none of you regularly go down the 710 to Long Beach harbor. Wall to wall big rigs that never leave the greater LA area. The health impacts to the people that live along that road is staggering. It’s the perfect place to regulate diesel trucks without all the nut jobs thinking it will be the end of the world as we know it.


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Is a cleaner diesel fuel available for the Los Angeles area? Can LA have transportation hubs on it perimeter where engines are switched out? Why should diesel engines used elsewhere, with lots of engine life, be eliminated? The nut jobs are in gov’t that ban perfectly useable machines … for what … some hyped up EV that takes tons of carbon emissions to make?

While we are at it, ethanol free fuel should be regularly available. Sometimes running half a tank of ethanol free makes an engine run better and cleaner.

The problem with CARB is that they don’t have practical experience with the machines they are regulating.


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Do you you take the bus or drive your Tesla down to the harbor?


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Abolish the CARB


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I could stand to lose a few pounds… But starvation did not occur to me.


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Right now, perfectly operable older diesel engines are being destroyed in the name of the environment. Forgetting that the embedded carbon in production is around 5.6 tons of CO2 equilvalent in a standard mid-sized gasoline ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicle.

The ecological thing to do is clean an older engine up, extend vehicle life and use, especially for machines only used occasionally.

CARB is a prime example of an agency with poor ideologically biased thinking.


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Well said


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The rest of us are disproportionately effected by the morons who dream this stuff up.


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A state that has an average life expectancy of 86.8 years dreams it up. Diesel loving states like LA have a life expectancy of 68.6 years.

Shall I share some about deaths associated by childbirth? California, Massachusetts and Nevada have the three lowest rates in the nation, at 4.5, 6.1 and 6.2 deaths per 100,000 live births, respectively. LA 44.8 deaths per 100,000 births.


There is a reason why residents of the other states are always California Dreaming.


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and all those problems in Louisiana are caused by diesel trucks, wow, who knew?


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Wait…help me out here…are you saying that the childbirth death rate is somehow tied to diesel trucks?? I am just trying to get the argument clear in my head before I attempt to accept it. Like the current life expectancy of the LA population compared to that of CA is disadvantaged due to the future circumstances of today’s political decisions? That is probably not what you are suggesting, but it sort of seems so.


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Every trucking company will move to Arizona or Nevada, and continue business as usual. No state regulation or law can interfere with the Commerce Clause. Wholly un-Constitutional.


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Trucking companies can move to AZ where they will have to comply with CA state law if they want to do business here.

CA can regulate intra-state trucking all they want at railways and ports. Which neither AZ or Nevada have to offer.

Our market size and coastal ports allow us to set the rules for others to follow. Which most here find infuriating.


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No, they can’t. If a truck is legal to operate in 49 states, especially one that is vital to interstate commerce (not even going to mention federal transports), our state has no ability to keep it out without interfering with federal laws and regulations.


Newsom has already deemed that no new ICE cars will be sold here. NOTHING will stop any vehicle, new or old, from anywhere else in the world from coming here to drive all over our roads and highways. Why? Because we have the Constitutional right to freedom of travel.


What’s next? No more diesel burning trains? No more planes that burn kerosene? No ships powered by oil or diesel?


For a guy that promises progression, Newsom is hell bent on regression.


70

Good point. I suspect this will end up in the courts.


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Complete insanity.


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