N.J. Police Can Ticket Trucks for Illegal Idling

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aw enforcement officials in New Jersey now have the power to ticket truck drivers who exceed the state’s three-minute idling law, under a new diesel-emission reduction plan signed by acting Gov. Richard Codey Sept. 7, said Gail Toth, executive director of the New Jersey Motor Truck Association.

reviously, only officials from the state’s Department of Environmental Protection had the authority to enforce the idling law.

Toth said the plan also mandated that municipal vehicles like garbage trucks and school buses be retrofitted with cleaner particulate-trap systems.

The state would allocate part of a corporate tax to help pay for the retrofits, should a constitutional amendment be approved by voters in November.

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