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DPF ash cleaning retread
Fairfield, Calif.-based Chipman Relocations dispatcher Tina Pastore (you may recall her “Driver’s Night Before Christmas” from the 2012 season) says the situation for some owner-operators running with...
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DEF or dumb?
We added 150 miles to our trip out of Portland because our truck isn’t DPF- or DEF-equipped. It turned out to be OK, since we got to see some of the most awesome scenery Oregon had to offer, but it’s...
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OOIDA lawsuit against Calif. emissions regs dismissed over technicality,...
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s 2013 lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board over its stringent emissions regulations has been dismissed by a federal judge based on...
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Calif. finalizes some exemptions, compliance alternatives to emissions...
The California Air Resources Board has finalized the compliance alternatives and extension amendments it proposed earlier this year, effectively allowing the owner-operators and small fleet owners who...
View ArticleLloyd Diesel working to maximize uptime with aftertreatment system optimization
With the company’s duty cycle programming, Lloyd’s technicians hook up to a truck’s ECM and change the aftertreatment settings from the factory settings to better suit the application for which the...
View ArticleWhen Bessie’s butt attacks
"I have it on good authority that by the year 2020, all cow butts will be equipped with DPF systems." ... On the upside, noted a glass-half-full type of observer: "When the DPF catches fire, you got...
View ArticleDon’t ‘drive through the lights’— and other aftertreatment system PM...
Daniel Mustafa, Assistant Manager of Technical Development for TravelCenters of America, says he still sees otherwise upstanding, wonderful people doing the kinds of things with their trucks that can...
View ArticleNew network for emissions-maintenance service
Clean Diesel Specialists, Inc., a California-based diesel emissions services company, has launched its North American Network of licensed emissions-service centers to provide branded maintenance for...
View ArticleDPFs subject to excise tax, court rules in lawsuit brought by truck dealer
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 23 tossed the suit, saying federal tax law is explicit in its requirement that parts and accessories of heavy-duty trucks are subject to the excise tax when...
View ArticleTwo large fleets fined by EPA for California emissions violations
According to EPA, Schneider and Old Dominion “failed to install particulate filters on some of their heavy-duty diesel trucks and failed to verify that trucks they hired for use in California complied...
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