Estes Express Lines, a trucking company from Virginia, has been fined $100, 000 by the US Environmental Protection Agency or EPA, for running 73 trucks in California that are not being installed with diesel particulate filters. The agency has also come out and said that trucks play a major part in polluting the State of California, which is at the top of the list, when it comes to states in the US with the lowest air quality. The rule puts it as a mandate that best oversize load trucks or tractors have to be installed with exhaust filters; else, they are liable for penalty. And it is the duty of freight brokers in California that they carefully inspect hired cargo shipment carriers for exhaust filters, or they will have to bear a hefty penalty as well.
The VA trucking company is also liable to pay another $255, 400 from the mandatory $29 million to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District's Burn Cleaner Incentive Program, and the rest $35, 000 to the University of California Davis Extension for initiating a program that would educate truckers from outside California the compulsion and need of complying with this regulation.
This has also come as an important piece of information for customers working with California-based brokers and freight companies, if they didn't already know about it. Always work with firms and brokers that comply with this rule.
The VA trucking company is also liable to pay another $255, 400 from the mandatory $29 million to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District's Burn Cleaner Incentive Program, and the rest $35, 000 to the University of California Davis Extension for initiating a program that would educate truckers from outside California the compulsion and need of complying with this regulation.
This has also come as an important piece of information for customers working with California-based brokers and freight companies, if they didn't already know about it. Always work with firms and brokers that comply with this rule.
