Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

OOIDA joins lawsuit against EPA truck emissions standard

Rule would require growing switch to zero-emission vehicles.

court photo-1589391886645-d51941baf7fb.jpeg

Truck drivers trade group the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) has joined a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new standards for cutting heavy-duty (HD) vehicle emissions, saying that the electric vehicle (EV) technology needed to support the change is yet ready for deployment at that scale.

The suit was filed by the American Petroleum Institute (API), which is the largest U.S. trade association for the oil and natural gas industry. In addition to OOIDA, parties supporting API’s move include the National Corn Growers Association and the American Farm Bureau Federation. Together, the groups are criticizing an EPA plan finalized in April to set federal emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles, including commercial vehicles, for model years 2027 to 2032.


Specifically, the suit challenges the EPA rule titled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles—Phase 3,” published at 89 Fed. Reg. 29,440 (April 22, 2024). Since its draft versions have been announced, transportation groups have generally reacted with skepticism to the rule’s standard requiring more zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), saying it moves too fast for existing EV technology and charging infrastructure.

In its statement announcing the lawsuit, the API cited the EPA’s projection that over 40% of vocational vehicles (work trucks) would need to be ZEVs by model year 2032. Additionally, long-haul tractors (semi-trucks), which currently have no ZEV deployment, would need to go from zero percent today to 25% of the fleet by model year 2032.

“Small business truckers make up 96% of trucking and could be regulated out of existence if the EPA’s unworkable heavy-duty rule comes into effect,” Todd Spencer, president of OOIDA, said in a release. “This rule would devastate the reliability of America’s supply chain and ultimately increase costs for consumers.”

 

 

 

 

Recent

More Stories

panel at cscmp edge conference nashville

Smoothing out the wrinkles in the nearshoring trend

The surge of “nearshoring” supply chains from China to Mexico offers obvious benefits in cost, geography, and shipping time, as long as U.S. companies are realistic about smoothing out the challenges of the burgeoning trend, according to a panel today at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)’s EDGE Conference in Nashville.

Those challenges span a list including: developing infrastructure, weak security, manual processes, and shifting regulations, speakers said in a session titled “Nearshoring: Transforming Surface Transportation in the U.S.”

Keep ReadingShow less

Featured

panel speakers cscmp edge conference nashville

After a cyberattack, quick reaction is critical, Estes says

A quick reaction in the first 24 hours is critical for keeping your business running after a cyberattack, according to Estes Express Lines, the less than truckload (LTL) carrier whose computer systems were struck by hackers in October, 2023.

Immediately after discovering the breach, the company cut off their internet, called in a third-party information technology (IT) support team, and then used their only remaining tools—employees’ personal email and phone contacts—to start reaching out to their shipper clients. The message on Day One: even though the company was reduced to running the business with paper and pencil instead of computers, they were still picking up loads on time with trucks.

Keep ReadingShow less
speakers at CSCMP Edge conference nashville

East and Gulf Coast port strike would send ripples across U.S.

As the final hours tick away before a potential longshoreman’s strike begins at midnight on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts, experts say the ripples of that move could roll across the entire U.S. supply chains for weeks.

While some of the nation’s largest retailers were able to pull their imports forward in recent weeks to soften the blow, “the average supply chain is ill-prepared for this,” Tom Nightingale, the former CEO of AFS Logistics, said in a panel discussion today at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)’s EDGE Conference in Nashville.

Keep ReadingShow less
Business leader Fawn Weaver shares an American story at EDGE

Business leader Fawn Weaver shares an American story at EDGE

The first full day of CSCMP’s EDGE 2024 conference ended with the telling of a great American story.

Author and entrepreneur Fawn Weaver explained how she stumbled across the little-known story of Nathan “Nearest” Green and, in deciding to tell that story, launched the fastest-growing and most award-winning whiskey brand of the past five years—and how she also became the first African American woman to lead a major spirits company.

Keep ReadingShow less
Three men stand at a small table with a black tablecloth signing a document.

Miquel Serracanta of EAE Business School, Mark Baxa of CSCMP, and Sebastian Jarzebowski of Kozminski University sign an agreement making Kozminski University the newest CSCMP Academic Enterprise Member.

Susan Lacefield

CSCMP forms academic partnership with Polish university

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and Kozminski University, a business school based in Warsaw, Poland, inked a deal on Sunday night, making Kozminski CSCMP’s newest Academic Enterprise Member.

This three-year collaborative membership will involve Kozminski using CSCMP educational content in its undergraduate supply chain program. As a result, Kozminski’s graduates will leave the program not only with a bachelor’s degree from the school but also certified through CSCMP’s SCPro certification program.

Keep ReadingShow less