Agreement includes major upgrade to public service center for commercial fleet vehicles that run on natural gas. The California Air Resources Board today announced that Ryder System, Inc., a provider of transportation and supply chain management solutions, paid $1,000,000 for failure to conduct testing and maintain complete records of required annual opacity tests on heavy-duty vehicles in its California fleet in 2008 and 2009.
Annual opacity tests, performed to determine whether a truck produces visible smoke from its exhaust, and related record-keeping are required under California law. Records reviewed by ARB enforcement staff indicated that Ryder failed to conduct tests and maintain records of the tests on vehicles that were in service for four or more years. This was Ryder’s first ARB violation in its 53 years of operating in California.
The one-million dollar settlement ($1,031,000 precisely) is in two parts. The first, a $773,000 payment, will go to the California Air Pollution Control Fund, established to mitigate various sources of pollution through education and the advancement and use of cleaner technology. The remaining $258,000 will fund investments to upgrade a maintenance facility to service trucks that are powered by natural gas.
Read full at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/rss/displaypost.php?pno=6113
Annual opacity tests, performed to determine whether a truck produces visible smoke from its exhaust, and related record-keeping are required under California law. Records reviewed by ARB enforcement staff indicated that Ryder failed to conduct tests and maintain records of the tests on vehicles that were in service for four or more years. This was Ryder’s first ARB violation in its 53 years of operating in California.
The one-million dollar settlement ($1,031,000 precisely) is in two parts. The first, a $773,000 payment, will go to the California Air Pollution Control Fund, established to mitigate various sources of pollution through education and the advancement and use of cleaner technology. The remaining $258,000 will fund investments to upgrade a maintenance facility to service trucks that are powered by natural gas.
Read full at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/rss/displaypost.php?pno=6113
