Heavy Duty Trucking, September 2018
Shell Rotella heavy duty engine oil passed the test Mobil Delvac 1300 Super 15W 40 did not WASHINGTON WATCH After a court challenge stymied its efforts to give small manufacturers of glider kits a reprieve from challenged provisions of its greenhouse gas regulations the Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn an order to not enforce those regulations On July 6 EPA said it would not enforce a 300 unit production cap put in place on the manufacture of glider kits vehicles that do not comply with Phase 2 GHG emission rules The aim was to protect small manufacturers of glider kits as defined by the Small Business Administration This was on the eve of the departure of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt under fire for allegations of unethical behavior However by July 18 a federal court had granted a temporary stay suspending that decision in response to a motion for an emergency stay by environmental groups The environmental groups argued in their brief that the decision not to enforce should be declared unlawful and be vacated because the EPA action was an illegal effort to subvert the Clean Air Act and the glider decision is arbitrary and capricious Following the court ruling late on July 26 Acting EPA head Andrew Wheeler withdrew the agencys non enforcement order The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has delivered a required Correlation Study Corrective Action Plan for its Compliance Safety Accountability program to Congress The plan outlines how the agency will address recommendations made in a National Academy of Sciences report that examines the effectiveness of the use of the percentile ranks produced by the CSA Safety Measurement System for identifying high risk carriers and if not what alternatives might be preferred In addition that report evaluates the accuracy and sufficiency of the data used by SMS to assess whether other approaches to identifying unsafe carriers would identify high risk carriers more effectively and to reflect on how members of the public use the SMS and what effect making the SMS information public has had on reducing crashes FMCSA noted that it has pulled from public view a preview website that displayed changes that the agency had proposed to its Safety Measurement System Those changes had been released prior to the NAS report so they are now outmoded The NAS study was commissioned by FMCSA to comply with a provision of the FAST Act highway bill of 2015 that mandated a study be conducted of the agencys CSA program and its SMS component Glider kit tug of war The future of CSA
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