Pennsylvania regulators are forcing truck drivers to buy trucks outside Pennsylvania.
The crazy part: they didn’t even make the rules; they were made by California.
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“We have no say, we can’t do anything about it,” says Brian Wanner the owner of Peter Brothers Trucking, “I don’t want to be anything like California.”
But that’s too bad, because Pennsylvania’s Environmental Quality Board decided to automatically copy rules from California.
The newest rules will raise the cost of new trucks by more than $50,000.
The regulators say these rules are important to stop pollution.
That’s dumb, says Wanner, “In 1980, 1 truck produced as much as 60 trucks today.”
“So, we want people to buy new trucks,” I ask?
“You want people to buy new trucks,” responds Wanner. “But if you put these costs on us that we cannot afford, we’re going to just run the older trucks.”
That’s something the regulators don’t think about.
In fact, there’s a lot they don’t think about. Their decision hurts truck sellers, won’t stop pollution, could be unconstitutional, and will only get more expensive when California mandates “all electric.”
All that and more in the video above.