the new rule of 800,000 miles and life of truck
18 years are both unrealistic
normally drivers drive 500 miles a day, 2500
miles a week, 10,000 miles a month
and about 100,000 a years so in 8 years they
drive 800,000 miles
the new rules are not realistic.
I called freightliner of Oakland to buy new
truck so they can last 8 years based on my calculation
they said the earliest they can deliver the
trucks is june 2024-book now for $500 down, cost $224000 and there
are no grants for it .
and they can deliver on max 100 trucks on
advance booking
other used truck inventory is very
low
cost with less than 400,000 miles are cost
120,000a nd they are not many of those to buy
second part of the rule is even more
unrealistic
register these trucks before 12/31/2023 in the
drayage registry
and 1/1/2024 only zero emission trucks can
registred
there are very few zero emission trucks which
can last for more than 200 miles on a single charge
Tesla is now getting ready to deliver some
trucks -which cost upward of $400,000, grants is only $120,000
again tesla says it will begin producing these
trucks soon
we truckers have less than 14 months to buy or
replace trucks
both these rules are not realistic
if goal is to be zero emission truck by
2040
then we should start the rule on 2032-8 years ,
800,000 truck will last till 2040
by 2035-2038, there will be enough truck
produced
if truckers buy used trucks of 400,000 miles it
can be used only for 4 more years and then they need to buy zero
emission trucks again ..nut there or cheap to buy
if we can be real then instead of 800,000 mile
rule make 1,000,000 miles
plus take away registration in drayage
1/1/24-for zero mission ...
zero emission should come in to play after
1/1/2032..not earlier...
if we cannot register normal diesel truck after
1/1/24 and the goal is replace all diesel trucks by 2040...that is
16 years away
This makes no sense ..one cannot replace 5000
trucks in 14 months ...
so if the plan to kill small truckers/business
owners then it is a good plan -
already we are having issues not enought truck
driver and now we will not have enough trucks to do we cannot do
with what trucks we have
the rule was 2010 engine will be good for a
long time-fully compliant
and now with 800,000 mile truck even 2010
engine truck is not usable
just be real !!!
dont destroy port trucking