Hello,
Please consider extending the Clean Fleet Regulation set to take
effect on January 1, 2023 which bans all 2008-2010 model year truck
engines. As you likely already know, this regulation affects
more than 25% of the trucks currently serving the ports of Los
Angeles & Long Beach.
This is necessary to allow truck owners to research all of the
new truck power technology that is currently being offered.
This is crucial to all trucking companies and especially the
independent contractor single truck company. There are many
challenges involved to the new NZ technology as indentified
below:
1. Electric vehicles: No infrastructure, Limited availability,
limited range, high cost, reduces allowable cargo weights due to
it's weight.
2. Hydrogen: New technology mostly unproven, high cost, limited
availability, no infrastructure.
We all want clean air, including truckers but rushing in
perceived power technology prior to proper vetting and
infrastructure is ludicrous. We all learned that expensive
lesson with LNG power. Where in 2008 government entities were
giving out $100,000 grants to purchase these, then in 2020 paying
us another $100,000 to scrap them.
Let's think smarter and extend the January 1, 2023 deadline by
at least one full year.
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