The California Air Resources Board is negotiating new green truck requirements, saying more action is needed to reduce truck emissions to meet the state’s targets.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will charge cargo owners who don’t use the cleanest available technologies in 2020 and also start a smog-check pilot program.
Bipartisan bills introduced in both houses of Congress would let 18- to 20-year-olds drive heavy-duty trucks cross-country after hundreds of training hours.
Regulators are using webinars, in-person events, mailers, emails – even a telephone hotline – to help truckers understand how to comply with the state’s strict air-quality requirements.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act exclusion for transportation workers applies to independent contractor truck drivers.
A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ruling exempts truckers from a California law that requires a break after five hours of work. (Photo: Port of Long Beach)
EPA’s Cleaner Trucks Initiative aimed at 50-state rule to reduce smog-forming emissions could work, says Mary Nichols, California Air Resources Board chair.
Trucking groups are pushing efforts to thwart the California Supreme Court ruling that upended requirements used to decide if a worker is an employee or an independent contractor.