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 As part of CVSA’s Operation Airbrake Program, Brake Safety


Week and an unannounced one-day brake safety enforcement event will have inspectors conduct brake system evaluations on large trucks and buses. For motor carriers, brake-related violations are the most frequent of all out-of-service violations cited during inspections.


EPA Issues Final Rule on Heavy Duty Truck Engine Emissions


 national greenhouse gas pollution standards for heavy-duty vehicles, such as freight trucks and buses, for model years 2027 through 2032. These new standards apply to heavy-duty vocational vehicles (such as delivery trucks, refuse haulers, public utility trucks, and transit, shuttle, and school buses) and tractors (such as day cabs and sleeper cabs on tractor-trailer trucks).  EPA’s Heavy-Duty Phase 2 program from 2016 and maintain  � standards are technology-neutral and performance-based, allowing each manufacturer to choose what set of emissions


control technologies is best suited for them and the needs of their customers. Available technologies include advanced internal combustion engine vehicles, hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. For heavy-duty vocational vehicles such as delivery trucks,


refuse haulers, and public utility trucks, the Phase 3 standards vary according to vehicle type and range up to 60% stronger than the previous Phase 2 standards for MY 2032. For tractors such as day cabs and sleeper cabs on tractor-trailer trucks, the Phase 3 standards vary according to vehicle type and range up to 40% stronger than the previous Phase 2 standards for MY 2032. For example, manufacturers of heavy-duty vocational


trucks (over 26,000 lbs. GVW) would have to achieve a further reduction of 13% of GHG emissions from the Phase 2 standards  in emissions from Phase 2 standards by MY 2032. Although applauded by environmental groups, the new


standards have been attacked by the trucking industry as unachievable with current electric-vehicle technology and a lack of EV charging stations as well as current power grid capacity limits.


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