It also appears that builders of front-discharge mixers, who derive much business from the glider trade, will also have to phase out their glider assembly operations. Truckinginfo is seeking comment from Fitzgerald and other builders.
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The company primarily used rebuilt and remanufactured 1998-2001 Detroit Diesel Series 60 engines, which are known for their fuel economy and performance. Among them is Fitzgerald Gliders, which last year assembled more than 3,000 glider kits, most of them highway tractors. It appears that provision will curtail and eventually kill off the glider business grown by various dealers and service companies in the United States. The phase-down using that calculated cap will last one year, until January 2018. “Any glider kits or glider vehicles produced beyond this allowance will be subject to the long-term program,” meaning they must use engines that are certified as emissions-legal for the same year the glider kit is built. “All vehicles within this allowance will remain subject to the existing Phase 1 provisions, including its exemptions. “For calendar year 2017, each manufacturer’s combined production of glider kits and glider vehicles will be capped at the manufacturer’s highest annual production of glider kits and glider vehicles for any year from 2010 to 2014,” the rule states. Meanwhile, low-volume builders, including individual truckers, can continue to buy and assemble glider kits using older engines until 2021. Beginning this January, volume production and sales of gliders using “pre-emission” diesels will be greatly curtailed – and the agencies said they hope that this won’t spark a “pre-buy” of gliders between now and January. Instead of abruptly outlawing them, however, the new rules will phase out gliders over the next four years. Such gliders will only be legal until 2018, and in smaller numbers. “By restricting the number of glider vehicles with high polluting engines on the road, these excess PM and NOx emissions will decrease dramatically, leading to substantial public health-related benefits.”įitzgerald Gliders prefers reliable and economical 1998-2001 Detroit Series 60s with no EGR or aftertreatment equipment. “Although glider vehicles would make up only 5% of heavy-duty tractors on the road, their emissions would represent about one-third of all NOx and PM emissions from heavy-duty tractors in 2025,” the agencies said. EPA and NHTSA noted all those arguments but said none addressed the basic issue of higher particulate matter and oxides of nitrogen emissions. Last year’s proposals to do away with glider kits sparked many comments from producers who argued that total impacts on emissions are minuscule that many gliders (such as concrete mixer trucks) run low annual mileages and that they are built mainly by small companies that provide valuable jobs.
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