CAN'T CALL YEAR A DIESEL DEBACLE

Booming sales, hardware advances--notable in the safety area--and a huge expansion in the industry's international trade made 1999 a great year for truck news. The only thing missing was a report on what could have been the year's biggest development: news of the resolution some have come to call the "diesel debacle." What has amounted to a moratorium on changes in regulation of exhausts of diesel engines that power the bulk of big work trucks can be traced back to early 1998. In a rapid-fire series of events, federal smog regulators charged that diesel engine makers cheated to get emissions approved. Six diesel manufacturers were hit with record fines in the millions. A further tightening of big truck exhaust rules, scheduled for 2004, was moved back to early 2002.

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  Scranton Gillette Communications

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• Authors:
  • Kelley, K
• Publication Date: 1999-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 18
• Serial:
  • Roads & Bridges
  • Volume: 37
  • Issue Number: 12
  • Publisher: Scranton Gillette Communications
  • ISSN: 8750-9229
  • Serial URL: http://www.roadsbridges.com/rb/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Diesel engine exhaust gases; Diesel engines; Federal laws; International trade; Motor vehicle industry; Regulations; Safety; Sales; Smog; Trucks
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Law; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Vehicles and Equipment; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00781843
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 2000 12:00AM