California boycott

The information I have seen (sorry I can't remember the magazine I read it in) California has legislation in the pipeline forbidding the use of EVERY type of "engine" except those designed to maintain the load.

This includes the APU.

I read this article this past summer. I do not know how far it has gotten. If I find it online, I will post it.

 

lets face it the cali gov hates everyone. even them selves. i'm sure there will be tickets written, and lawsuits galore. I the end we will bend over and take again and again.

 

I personally do not think a boycott would work. I think it would only hurt O/O's and bolster the large companies who would have no problem running more loads in CA to offset any O/O's not doing it. As a company driver I would have no choice but to suffer the consequences of no idleing and run in CA.

As sad as it is, it's probably going to take a few deaths from either heat stroke or a driver falling asleep at the wheel in broad daylight because he couldn't sleep comfortably.

The larger companies are not going to just throw money into APU's for their drivers because of this rule. Think if how much it would cost them to give their driver's some comfort...I don't see it happening and I don't think CA even considered it.

I have a friend that works for the CA air control board and he filled me in on meetings regarding APU's...they like the idea of them but they do not look realistically at it and consider the fact that only a few are going to be able to afford to get them. Unless they mandate companies to buy them we are just going to be left to sweat....

Just my opinion.

 

This is what makes me so angry about California legislation. There are 48 states we drive in, and some drive in the Canadian, and Mexican provinces from time to time...... but this ONE State..... out of all the many places that cargo goes or comes from.... this ONE State, dictates how ALL trucks are being manufactured. Who does Arnold think he is? The President of three countries, and the Governor, of every State and Province therein?!
Just because one states, got a wild hair up it's rump, all new trucks from here on out are going to change.

 

I think you're right..... I think it would be more reasonable of an idea, for someone to try to contact people effected by wrecks caused by these rules, and try to talk them into suing California, than it is to try boycott the state.
If we got enough people who are survivors of such wrecks to sue the state, but not for personal gain.... but sue California, with the specifications, that the money gained would go to the Donation/helping to cut the cost of such APU unit's, then that would get not only Californias attention, but the entire countries..... And that's what needs to be done.

A boycott, will not work, because of the big companies, and the suing would only work, because, money talks.... and if there was a fund that the money gathered went to..... I think THAT is what would work/make a difference.
I also think another idea, would be to get Cali, to Annex their transportation..... We could meet them at the border, kind of like we already do with Mexico.

 

Actually, no. CARB was initially formed in 1967 in response to the problem of smog and air quality, not as a result of global warming, which was barely a gleam in any environmentalists eye at that time.