Senator Megan Dahle shared the news that on Friday the Senate passed Senate Bill 1064, a measure to streamline the testing requirements for low-use diesel vehicles under the Air Resources Board’s Clean Truck Check program.
This bill does not reduce air-quality standards. It does reduce repetitive requirements to test low-use diesel vehicles as if they were big rigs running continually on the highway. These vehicles are often specialty farm equipment, only used seasonally, and many would put on more mileage driving to the test center than they get in a normal year.
Everyone supports clean air in California, so I appreciate my colleagues’ willingness to look at this issue with open minds and see how the Air Resources Board’s one-size-fits-all rules were piling new burdens on business without any real benefit.
