I have not been behind the wheel of a heavy-duty diesel truck or a bus but evidently, the vehicles are not required to have an emissions warning light on the dashboard. The light comes on when the emission equipment on your vehicle is not working right. Well, many commercial vehicles were not required to have this equipment but the state of California sought EPA approval to mandate the installation of these devices on nearly 400,000 diesel trucks in the state.

Since that time, the Environmental Protection Agency has set forth a federal mandate that would require heavy diesel trucks and buses have the equipment by 2010.

“The equipment is meant to help enforce compliance with pollution limits that the government tightened last year. The EPA has estimated that those limits, which lower emissions of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides, will prevent 8,300 premature deaths and more than 9,500 hospitalizations, bringing $70 billion worth of health benefits in exchange for annual expenses totaling $2.3 billion.” (Source: Washington Post)

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