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Large Trucks and Buses Made Before 2010
Now Banned From California Roadways

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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 1/2/2023 12:48:01 AM

Big rigs and buses made before 2010 are now banned from operating on California roadways. The law, which went into effect on New Year’s Day, was part of a set of clean air regulations the California Air Resources Board passed nearly 15 years ago. According to truck lobbying groups, the new law will prohibit about 10 percent of the commercial motor vehicles that are operating in the state. “The rule applies to diesel vehicles that weigh at least 14,000 pounds. The air resources board said there are an estimated 200,000 vehicles that have yet to comply with the rule just days before the new year, including roughly 70,000 big rig trucks,

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Of there is any way leftists can screw up the supply chain, they will take it!!

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Reply 1 - Posted by: LadyHen 1/2/2023 1:07:12 AM (No. 1368976)
I know, "there are more Republicans in CA than any other state." And? What have you done? Reagan's CA is dead and buried. It is a welfare state now. Sell out and move to the heartland to farm. Move to a place where your vote counts and your dollar goes father. Move to a red state to keep it red, a purple state to turn red. You GOOD FOLKS are needed HERE!! Let the Commies eat their own and stop feasting on you! This kind of insanity should it come to full fruition will lead to total agricultural desolation... and in the end that is the financial backbone of CA.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: GoodDeal 1/2/2023 1:28:12 AM (No. 1368979)
The Air Resources Board is a bureaucracy that is totally infected with the notion that carbon is a deadly toxic poison and is implementing the most ridiculous agenda that will accomplish nothing but cost billions. On areas of building construction and motor vehicles they are trying to make environmental laws to rewrite the laws of physics. Total insanity.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: leonardo 1/2/2023 1:33:53 AM (No. 1368980)
Those fools who are still paying personal income tax to CA need to STOP. You cannot jail them all. This would essentially be a well-deserved vote of no confidence by the people who are the producers, upon which the CA Commies FEED. Stop the engine of California and return it to sanity. Or go down with the ship.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: NotaBene 1/2/2023 2:38:03 AM (No. 1368985)
I have been told by a trucker that ex-Mayor Villaraigosa based a fleet of BBB trucks at can operate in port of LA.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 1/2/2023 3:39:23 AM (No. 1368988)
You get what you vote for. CA voters want full bore Communism. CA voters are getting full bore Communism. And Newsom wants to bring that Communism to America. BTW with the ban on semis CA stores will now become fully stocked - naw. Velkome to real Communism, Venezuela style.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mifla 1/2/2023 4:51:19 AM (No. 1368996)
And the sheeple keep voting for these fools. Goodbye trucking companies, hello shortages.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: F15 Gork 1/2/2023 7:13:19 AM (No. 1369025)
Sieg Heil Herr Newsom, Sieg Heil!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: TCloud 1/2/2023 7:20:01 AM (No. 1369030)
Cargo shipping will back up again.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: franq 1/2/2023 7:20:36 AM (No. 1369031)
Absolute insanity.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Venturer 1/2/2023 7:40:30 AM (No. 1369047)
I wonder how many pieces of Fire Equipment are subject to this law. Pretty soon they will have another stoppage of Commerce when they outlaw all Fossil fueled trucks and make them go electric.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: ThreeBadCats3 1/2/2023 7:44:30 AM (No. 1369049)
The government of California has proven yet again the old truism. You can’t fix Stupid.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: billa57 1/2/2023 7:54:36 AM (No. 1369053)
You'll all have to ride a bike wherever you go like in North Korea. And you better have a smile on your face.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 1/2/2023 8:07:33 AM (No. 1369058)
The problem with setting ridiculous long term goals in order to please a bunch of fanatical leftist voters is that the date for the lunacy to go into effect comes around while the idiots who created said lunacy are still in office. You need to be smart like Joe Biden and set dates like 2050 that you will never see. Several deadlines for the end of the world caused by Climate Change have already passed and there is still beachfront property where it used to be thirty years ago. Some icecaps are growing in area. Now the prognosticators need to 'splain why.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: skacmar 1/2/2023 8:30:31 AM (No. 1369076)
What will the illustrious Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Pete, have to say about this? Suddenly losing a large percentage of perfectly good trucks for transportation in the supply chain will just make a bad problem even worse.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: NorthernDog 1/2/2023 8:52:44 AM (No. 1369086)
I have heard there are modern-day hippies that convert old school buses to rolling RVs. If properly maintained they can run for decades on the old diesel engines. I wonder if they will be forced off the road by the progressive, non-judgmental California government.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 1/2/2023 9:11:57 AM (No. 1369094)
I wonder if India and China are putting the same ban in place.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 1/2/2023 9:15:59 AM (No. 1369097)
Now let us all sit back and watch California's economy tumble into the sea.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: red1066 1/2/2023 9:18:15 AM (No. 1369100)
I still think this could be a case for the Supreme Court in that this law will affect interstate commerce.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Lake Dweller 1/2/2023 9:30:14 AM (No. 1369109)
Let them starve, burn up, freeze or drown. California did all of this to themselves. A beautiful place has become a homelessness cesspool. And not one cent of federal bailout!
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Reply 20 - Posted by: bighambone 1/2/2023 9:35:58 AM (No. 1369114)
Common sense will tell you such a law in California will cause all sorts of adverse supply chain situations to the East of California as big rigs, a lot of them built before 2010, from all over the USA and Canada, go there to pick up every type freight that you can think of and haul that freight, including a lot of food, to every location in North America East of California.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 1/2/2023 9:48:41 AM (No. 1369119)
The predominant mode of transportation in California will be the bicycle. Can't move cargo that way. Agree with #1. The blue states cannot survive without productive people to feed on. Why does one allow that kind of behavior? Leave!
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Goose 1/2/2023 9:54:02 AM (No. 1369125)
So which legislators profit most from the sale of new trucks? And how many independent operators will go out of business because they can't afford to buy new trucks??
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Reply 23 - Posted by: mc squared 1/2/2023 10:02:20 AM (No. 1369137)
CARB is another unelected 3-letter Agency (?) that makes rules and regulations without going through the legislative process. That way no elected bums can be blamed. Same as Washington DC.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 1/2/2023 10:11:54 AM (No. 1369146)
It appears that many truckers will need to incorporate in another state, register their truck there, and proceed with business. The communists in Californication have no intent on honoring individual rights and liberty.
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Reply 25 - Posted by: padiva 1/2/2023 10:12:27 AM (No. 1369147)
Plant more trees. Problem solved.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: vhs68 1/2/2023 10:14:00 AM (No. 1369148)
Well, the good news for any of those California folks who want to 'return home' in a reverse Grapes of Wrath move will be happy to know that I-40 (aka: Hwy 66) is now an interstate highway. Come on Home...................
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Reply 27 - Posted by: Ditto1958 1/2/2023 10:19:51 AM (No. 1369159)
This is something Congress needs to stop. Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce. They need to stop CA.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: czechlist 1/2/2023 10:20:13 AM (No. 1369160)
Interstate commerce! product which is imported to and transits through kalifornica to consumers outside of the State is cost inflated due to these "anti-pollution" laws. I contacted both TX Senators about this matter months ago. Crickets.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: DVC 1/2/2023 10:29:15 AM (No. 1369172)
Stop using California ports for shipping. That's the solution here. Lots of east coast and gulf coast ports available. California is becoming a literally failed state. Businesses need to just stay away.
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Reply 30 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 1/2/2023 10:34:02 AM (No. 1369181)
There will be a new industry of shipping across state lines, unloading into a real truck, then going back for another load. This will only make our produce more expensive, but entrepreneurs will get the food out.
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Reply 31 - Posted by: stablemoney 1/2/2023 10:52:15 AM (No. 1369199)
So there won't be any Mexican trucks entering California any longer.
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Reply 32 - Posted by: What3rd 1/2/2023 10:57:15 AM (No. 1369208)
Maybe all truckers should stop moving freight in CA. Starve them out. Bankrupt the woke State. No moving freight means no profit for companies. No profit for companies means those companies leave the State. When those companies go, so do the jobs. Who will pay for all their woke social programs?
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Reply 33 - Posted by: janjan 1/2/2023 11:04:50 AM (No. 1369214)
This will seriously reduce the amount of goods going into or out of California making it even more unfriendly to business, causing more of them to relocate and causing prices to soar. Do they think their tax base can be supported by the idiots that are left?
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Reply 34 - Posted by: felixcat 1/2/2023 11:51:23 AM (No. 1369267)
Oh great. The or one of the largest ports is Long Beach and I'm sure this will really help with the supply chain for the rest of the country. /sarc
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Reply 35 - Posted by: smokincol 1/2/2023 11:56:40 AM (No. 1369277)
the new edicts from the People's Republic of CaliMex seems to be getting more absurd every day
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Reply 36 - Posted by: kono 1/2/2023 12:15:12 PM (No. 1369295)
BOHICA, as in "... here in California"
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Reply 37 - Posted by: DVC 1/2/2023 12:16:27 PM (No. 1369298)
Desperate to stop competition from independent truckers so their union, corrupt, HIGH PRICED trucking companies can take over all the business. Commies are ALWAYS thinking of new ways to prevent free market competition on everything.
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Reply 38 - Posted by: paral04 1/2/2023 2:19:08 PM (No. 1369373)
This is going to make it impossible to deliver food and goods to and from the ports or to warehouses. I guess those folks out there don't worry about such frivolities such as eating.
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Reply 39 - Posted by: hershey 1/2/2023 2:43:49 PM (No. 1369386)
I guess all the produce and Chinese products now will be transported by donkey cart to the border and reloaded on semis for distribution...Kalifornians are such a bunch of foolhardy idiots....
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Reply 40 - Posted by: Faithfully 1/2/2023 10:56:08 PM (No. 1369624)
Does China own the west coast ports as they do the in the east?
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Reply 41 - Posted by: doctorfixit 1/3/2023 9:45:53 AM (No. 1369817)
Catch me if you can
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