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What does the electric vehicle mandate mean for truckers?

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It’s begun.   The California mandate (Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation, approved on 28 April 2023 by the California Air Resources Board) to only purchase tractors (the kind that haul trailers) that are powered by hydrogen or electricity.  The problem is that there are insufficient charging stations for these tractors (let alone a dearth of hydrogen fuel supply sites).

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RCO (remote controlled operation?)

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So, I haven’t spoken about what going on the in the trucking industry for a while.  About 18 months ago, we discussed autonomous trucking concepts and about two years ago when I gave some ideas for folks entering the trucking business sector. (The three-part series began here.)

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Keep on truckin’

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It’s been a while.  Some 30 years ago, we started a small trucking company. One that grew into one of the larger private carriers in the Commonwealth.   It wasn’t what we started out to do; no, we were really running a small medical device manufacturer.  But, our customers wanted just-in-time delivery (sometimes just-in-breath delivery) and most of them had no loading docks and no warehouse crew.  If we wanted their business, we needed to deliver to their clinics, arrange their stock, etc.

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