California Dump Truck Owners Association (CDTOA) - California Construction Trucking Association (CCTA)

To all CTN Magazine Reads:

I’ve been hearing much about whether or not older trucks need an engine emission control label (ECL) that is in conformance with CARB regulations, Section 2183(c).

Please read this CARB Advisory below. It should answer all your questions.

I have also heard that OOIDA is fielding calls from their members that CARB will not allow (through DMV vehicle registrations) trucks that are re-powered with an engine older than the original. The exact language is, “engine switches (are allowed) as long as the resulting vehicle matches exactly to any certified configuration of the same or newer model year as the chassis.”

Attached is the relevant EPA “guidance” [EngSwitch] on the subject – 21 years old.  According to our read, a member in California who has a 2000 MY truck engine and re-powers with a 1998 engine (same OEM and engine family, same HP) may be in trouble.  While the engine has exactly the same emissions profile as the original 2000 engine under the hood it is not the same or newer model year as the chassis. We could see if they had an 04, 07, or ’10 (all new technology year changes) and replaced with an older engine how that could be an issue.  What’s ironic about all of this is that for ‘94 or older (engine) owners don’t even need to report and can operate until the end of 2014, ‘95 & ‘96 till the end of 2015! Bet there’s a demand for 95 & 96’s!!!!

Lee Brown, Chief Editor CTN Magazine

Fraud and plagiarism are being detected at a greater rate, and some fear problems ahead.

By ALAN BAVLEY - The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/28/3397752/phony-science-is-a-growing-concern.html

The only difference between Kansas is that the Attorney General (now the Governor GreenJean-Moonbeam) and the UC administration are glad to look the other way when it comes to self-serving corruption and fraud – in the name of the environment.

Lee Brown

This one should be tough for the supporters of the current regime to swallow....AND it comes from ABC NEWS...no Snopes or Wikileaks on this one!!

U.S.A. Bridges and Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms Shocking to say the least!  This video is a jaw-dropper that will make you sick.  (It was also shocking that ABC was actually reporting this story.)

The lead-in with Obama promising jobs in the U.S. by improving our infrastructure is so typical of all his promises!  Our tax dollars are at work - for CHINA!!!

I pray all the unemployed see this and cast their votes accordingly in 2012!

Click here: U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms |  Video - ABC News

Wisconsin's Scott Walker is facing a recall after his labor and spending reforms. If he loses, public unions will flex their muscles nationwide.

By STEPHEN MOORE - WSJ

One Sunday afternoon last spring, as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was working in his front yard, a car rolled slowly by and blared its horn. He and his two teenage sons looked up to see two middle fingers directed their way as the car screeched down the street. A few minutes later another car rolled by and a voice shouted "Hey governor!" Mr. Walker reluctantly looked up—to find two thumbs up coming through the open window.

No American politician had a more polarizing effect on voters last year than Scott Walker. This time last year, thousands of irate protesters were occupying Wisconsin's state Capitol, comparing Mr. Walker to Hitler for trying to reform the pension and collective-bargaining systems of public-employee unions. He needed an entourage of 25 security officers to escort him through the building at the height of the pandemonium.

To all Readers:

At the last CCTA board meeting in November, someone questioned: “If there isn’t global warming, than how do you explain the ice loss in Greenland?” A number of people said that the photos were likely a fraud – but at that time it was still being investigated. We all saw the satellite-type photos of reduced polar ice on the white island which showed that about (116,000 sq. mi.) of ice cap was gone, assumingly melted due to global warming. Most creditable scientist scratched their heads knowing that such massive ice loss here would have raised sea levels (about 1 meter ~3 feet). Ironically, sea levels have actually dropped about .75-centimeters since 2010, as more moisture in falling on land masses as snow and rain - was the blame.

So, yes another fraud, an area incidentally about the same size of the entire state of Arizona has not disappeared as the published TC atlas photo indicated. Shockingly or not (depending on what you believe today), the creators or “photochoppers” of the satellite photos are now admitting to the fraudulent, touched up work and the world atlas publisher said they “have learned a lesson”. One would think a fraud like this would include jail-time, at least job loss. Again, it’s good to be skeptical because we are all being lied to daily about PM, CO2, fracking, wood formaldehyde and even DDT - this is the real incontrovertible fact.

Let’s see how many news agencies pick this story up and run the “opps… rebuttal” as quickly as they printed the fraudulent photos and scary earth-ending effects. This type of fraud is just another example of why we are suing CARB, make no mistake about it! Can you say Hien Tran the father of CARB diesel regulations justification, academic credential fraud, and most recently UC Berkeley’s Michael Jerrett, $750,000 California specific epi-study health effects fraud, Al Gore & Mikey Mann’s hockey stick fraud, the IPCC claimed doom of Himalayan glaciers by 2035, the leaked “Climategate” emails detailing massive international cover-up and on and on!

You all need to subscribe to Steve Miloy’s Junkscience.com website where I picked this up.

If this doesn’t want to make you donate $20 or $50 to our lawsuit what does?   - 
Lee Brown, Executive Director

More on this story

By Paul Roger - Mecury News

In a move that could reshape the American automobile industry, California regulators Thursday are expected to approve sweeping new rules requiring that 15 percent of new cars sold in California by 2025 run on electricity, hydrogen or other systems producing little or no smog.

The regulations by the California Air Resources Board, dubbed the "advanced clean car rules," would start in 2018, ramping up each year and ultimately resulting in 1.4 million "zero emission" vehicles on California roads by 2025. Today there are only about 10,000 such vehicles in the state.

"This is a really large step. It's transformational," said Tom Cackette, an engineer and chief deputy director of the air board. "Ten years from now the market is going to look quite a bit different."

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 11:10 AM PST

Over at the PJ Tattler today, my colleague Chris Horner receives warmly the news that the President might make the administration’s record on renewable energy a focus of his State of the Union Address:

It is time to remember that President Obama used his first two State of the Union speeches (the first actually not called that, but…) and, to show his seriousness, his first address to the UN General Assembly, to upbraid Congress with the same, very deliberately worded demand for “legislation that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America”.

Power grabbing is hard work. Usually the power grabbee resists the infringement of its rights, so the Environmental Protection Agency has had to employ a number of machinations to get the job done. Without further ado, I present to you nos. 10 through 6, of EPA’s top 10 tricks to steal more power:

Long Beach Post:

The Long Beach City Prosecutor’s Office announced today that it filed a 58 count criminal complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Pacific Coast Container, Inc., for illegally transporting overweight shipments in violation of the California Vehicle Code.

In addition to Pacific Coast Container, Inc., the complaint charges Umex Freight System, Inc., and 19 employees of the corporations responsible for overweight shipping. If convicted of all charges, the defendants could be ordered to pay $153,193.00 (plus penalties and assessments).

Vehicle Identification Number and Vehicle History Reports

As cars were first being introduced into California, there was no orderly way to track the vehicles or the owners until 1905. To keep track of all vehicles, the state required cars, bicycles, carriages, carts and similar vehicles to be licensed. However, the automotive industry used a different method to track their vehicles- Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs). A VIN is a unique serial code that is assigned to every vehicle and was first used in 1954. They were typically placed on the driver-side door or at the bottom of the front windshield. Different manufacturers used different formats of VINs until 1981, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration required VINs to be 17 characters and must exclude the letters I, O and Q. By excluding these letters, any confusion with the numbers one and zero was avoided.