The Trucking Association of New York (TANY), along with Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo and other state transportation stakeholders, called on legislators to reconsider implementation of California Air Resources Board (CARB) Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) regulations set to take effect in the state just more than two months from now.
TANY President Kendra Hems called for an “immediate delay.” New York joins Oregon in attempting to flex rules that were supposed to launch in January requiring a percentage of new trucks sold in their states to be zero-emission vehicles.
Roughly 4,000 Class 8 trucks are registered annually in New York, and ACT regulations would require 280 (7% of sales) of them to be zero emissions in 2025 to support total annual retail sales of diesel units.
“Less than 40 have been registered to-date,” noted Hems, adding that New York has not installed a single public heavy duty truck charger since the ACT was approved in 2021. “We are no closer today than we were four years ago.”
To date, 11 states, including California, New York and Oregon, have pledged to adopt CARB’s ACT rule, but the 2025 implementation date is not universal. California kicked off this year. Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico and Rhode Island earmarked 2027, and Vermont 2026.
Under ACT, for every eight diesel units sold in New York, heavy truck dealers in the state would have to sell one BEV first, and Stone noted that “the process of selling a battery electric vehicle can take up to 18 months” with supply chain challenges, infrastructure needs and applying for incentives and grants.
CCJ: NY trucking group pushes for delay of emissions mandate
PSR Analysis. Out of the eleven states planning to implement the CARB type emission regulations, some have pushed the implementation dates out from 2025 into 2026 and 2027 as they begin to realize the barriers to adoption of zero-emission trucks such as high up-front cost, lack of charging infrastructure and duty cycle issues will have a significant negative impact to the industry and likely the state economy, as well. PSR expects this trend to continue until many of the barriers to zero-emission vehicle adoption are resolved or at least improved. PSR
Chris Fisher is Senior Commercial Vehicle Analyst at Power Systems Research
