States are taking the question of highway funding into their own hands as the federal government dithers and one of the leading ideas is charging motorists for the miles they travel—vehicle miles traveled (VMT).
This is especially important with the increasing fuel economy numbers reducing the take on the gas tax, not to mention hybrids and electric vehicles that pay little to maintain the roads they use. Read more
UPLAND, Calif., March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its decision on March 3, 2015 regarding the California Construction Trucking Association (formerly the California Dump Truck Owners Association) ongoing litigation (CDTOA v. Nichols) challenging the legality of the California Air Resource Boards (CARB) burdensome Statewide Truck and Bus regulation banning from California highways all diesel powered trucks not meeting post manufacturing emissions requirements. Read more
A recent article in the Fresno Bee forecasts that the area of the state with some of the worst air quality is seriously considering banning the use of gasoline and diesel fuels to meet proposed U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ozone and nitrogen oxide (NOX) standards. Read more
For many years, campaigns and extra patrolling throughout the U.S. has been done in an effort to put a stop to drunk driving and the horrific accidents that such actions cause.
Today at almost every sobriety checkpoint stops are also checking for drivers under the influence of drugs, and there’s been a change to what the law enforcement community is finding. The number of people driving under the influence of drugs is on the rise. It’s a statistic that many in the law enforcement community finds alarming. Read more
by Sean Edgar, CleanFleets.net
By the time you read this, the January 2015 window to “opt into” CARB extensions for older diesel trucks is closed. This article summarizes the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Truck and Bus Regulation implementation in 2015 and new grant funding for small fleets in the LA, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside chapters. Read more
Washington D.C. – On January 9, 2015 the United States Department of Transportation (US DOT) announced it would end a decades old ban on Mexico based motor carriers getting operating authority to run throughout the U.S. Read more
On November 28, 2014, a truck cab suddenly caught fire on Highway 101 in Los Angeles. The following day, onlookers at a truck stop in Natomas watched as flames from a parked burning big rig truck cab spread to two adjoining trucks, destroying all three vehicles. One day later, at a fueling station in Dunnigan, another big rig truck cab burst into flames, resulting in the vehicle’s total loss and subsequent shutdown of the fueling station itself – fortunately without injury or loss of life. Read more
From ARTBA News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) December 19 decided against regulating recycled fly ash as a “hazardous” material, giving the transportation construction industry a significant regulatory victory. Read more
For those out of compliance and fearful of no equipment equity Freighliner has a guide to determining a truck’s real cost.
With the California Air Resources Board (CARB) deadline 9 days away (January 1, 2015) for many, this could be helpful.
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EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 31, 2014
CCTA has started to receive many non-members and some members calling to have us buy back or return supplies they have purchased claiming either they do not need them anymore or that they are not what they needed. Some of these requests to return or buy back product has been in excess of 3 or more months. Read more
