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The Path to Clean Trucks

By Steve Brawner Contributing Writer

New York’s trucking industry wants to work with policymakers to create a cleaner, greener state, but the state’s policies shouldn’t be a “carbon copy” of California’s.

That’s TANY’s message in the wake of the California Air Resources Board’s adoption of the Advanced Clean Fleets rule.

In conversations with policymakers and legislators, TANY emphasizes that it supports the shift to zero emission trucks, including electric and other alternatives. But it doesn’t support New York adopting California’s mandates, as it tends to do.

“I think everyone wants do the right thing as it relates to protecting our environment,” said Kendra Hems, TANY’s president. “But the way in which we get there is the concern, and there are a lot of concerns about being told when you have to buy a truck that you may or may not actually be able to utilize.”

Hems made that comment following the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) adoption of the Advanced Clean Fleets rule. The rule would ban the sale of non-zero emissions trucks in 2036. At the same time, it would create a zero emissions truck adoption schedule for fleets of 50 or more trucks Classes 2B to 8, those with greater than $50 million revenue operating at least one truck above Class 2B, and drayage fleets, which typically service intermodal ports and railyards.