The California Air Resources Board has stepped up enforcement of its stringent diesel truck regulations to ensure that trucks traveling from Mexico to the state鈥檚 ports and rail yards are compliant.
CARB staff also will be looking for 鈥渄ray-offs,鈥 compliant trucks that exchange cargo with a noncompliant truck on or off port property.
鈥淪tarting last fall, CARB staff has been regularly visiting the border towns of Otay Mesa and Calexico to educate truckers and business owners in English and Spanish about how to comply with our regulations and what happens when you don鈥檛,鈥 said Jim Ryden, CARB鈥檚 enforcement chief.
鈥淲e have been working diligently to send a strong, consistent message that the benefits of compliance far outweigh the risks of ignoring or procrastinating when it comes to cleaning up your vehicles or participating in illegal dray-off,鈥 he said in a statement.
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