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June 2018

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26 | Overdrive June 2018 Logbook Find out more about how this app can revolutionize how you weigh your truck. 1-877-CAT-SCALE (228-7225) catscale.com | weighmytruck.com Now accepting: SAVE TIME. MAKE MONEY. Time is money, and you need to make every minute count. The Weigh My Truck app is the fastest way to weigh. It's a game changer that streamlines the weighing process and payment all from your mobile device. Weigh. Pay. Get Going. CAT OD 052518.qxp_Layout 1 5/29/18 9:37 AM Page 1 The time has expired for legal appeals to save the California Air Resources Board's compliance alternatives to the engine upgrades and retrofi ts required by its Truck and Bus Regulation. Elizabeth White, CARB's lead public information offi cer on the issue, said in an email that the sunset date is unspecifi ed but described as the "ef- fective date" of a Jan. 31 California appeals court ruling that struck the 2014 options down. CARB voids some 2014 compliance alternatives For all the sunsetting exemp- tions, the email's language says truck owners out of compliance with any of the exemptions' stipulations at the end of the year "must replace, repower, or retrofi t the vehicle(s) per the Engine Model Year Schedule of the regulation." The regulation bans 1995 and older engines, requiring an upgrade to a 2010-or-later emissions-specifi cation engine. Engines dated 1996-2006 must be retrofi t with a diesel partic- ulate fi lter; such engines then require upgrades to a 2010 or later engine emissions-specifi - cation engine starting in 2020. Model year 2007-09 engines require upgrades to 2010 tech- nology in 2023. The death of the compli- ance-fl exibility options results from a lawsuit fi led by John R. Lawson Rock and Oil of Fresno and the California Trucking As- sociation. The plaintiff s argued the delayed compliance schedule punished operators who spent the money required to comply with CARB's regulations on time, putting them at a compet- itive disadvantage. A trial court ruled in favor of Lawson and CTA in 2016. CARB lost its ap- peal of that decision in January. – Todd Dills STANLEY POLK JR., a former truck driver trainee for Werner Enterprises, was sentenced to 50 years in prison after being found guilty of fi rst-degree murder for killing his trainer, Ronald Ruiz, 62, in 2015. Polk, 49, said he stabbed Ruiz at a rest stop in self-defense.

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