ATA Says California Reefer Rule Is Unfair

California’s new emission-reduction rule for transport refrigeration units unfairly imposes air quality standards on out-of-state carriers, attorneys for American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association told a federal appeals court.

In a brief filed Aug. 10 with the U.S. Court of Appeals with the District of Columbia Circuit, ATA argued that California should not be allowed to “leverage its size and economic importance to effectively impose a national emission standard on a given category of the nation’s engines.”

ATA and TCA earlier this year filed the appeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of California’s reefer rule, which takes effect in January for all model-year 2002 and older engines.
The appeal is scheduled for oral argument on Oct. 2.