Sparks Motors LLC illegally sold or retrofitted diesel trucks with equipment that disabled required emission control systems, according to the lawsuit, some allowing drivers to release huge plumes of black exhaust in a practice known as “rolling coal.”
Some of these so-called “defeat parts” allowed drivers to release huge plumes of black exhaust in a practice known as “rolling coal.”
“It was a classic coal roller. You step on the gas and out comes a big cloud,” said the group’s lawyer Reed Zars, a lawyer representing UPHE. The catalytic converter, diesel particulate filter and other controls had been removed.
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