CARB regulations
Diesel Equipment Filter Deadlines: January 2012
The Air Resources Board’s (ARB) first diesel filter deadline is January 2012, and as a recent release states, “Owners of heavy diesel trucks [in California] … need to act now in order to comply with the Truck & Bus regulation” since the process of ordering and installing the filters can take a few months.
This first deadline involves fleet vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) greater than 26,000 pounds. Lighter diesel trucks (those with GVWR of 14,001 to 26,000 pounds) will have no compliance requirements until 2015.
Equipment Appraisal and CARB Diesel Risk Reduction Plan
An equipment appraiser has multiple and on-going opportunities to appraise diesel equipment and machinery. It’s a rare appraisal, in fact, that does not include some variety of diesel-powered equipment, and the current CARB (California Air Resources Board) Diesel Risk Reduction Plan includes just about all of them.
Because I regularly write diesel equipment appraisal reports, I’ve learned quite a bit about CARB regs and have considered their on-going influence on diesel appraisals. I put my research to work in an overview article on Diesel RRP, which has been published in the current edition of the MTS Journal of the International Machinery & Technical Specialties Committee of the American Society of Appraisers. This journal is by subscription only, so I’ve made the article available as a pdf on the NorCalValuation website just for you.
