Trucking Tells Calif. Board to Delay Diagnostics Plan

img src="/sites/default/files/images/articles/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Truck industry representatives at a California meeting last week said that the state’s proposal for onboard diagnostics of heavy-duty truck engine emissions systems should be delayed.

They said the proposal by California’s Air Resources Board should be in line with a longer timetable that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering for a similar federal rule.

Truck and engine makers told CARB at an Oct. 16 workshop in El Monte, Calif., that the state agency’s push to have a standard for onboard diagnostics for heavy-duty trucks by 2007 is too much, too soon.