Andrew John of John N John Trucking Company explains how a new Environmental Protection Agency standard on semi-trucks could threaten small businesses.
Andrew John of John N. John Trucking Company unpacks the implications of new EPA standards for truckers on 'Varney & Co.'
Smaller trucking businesses are feeling financial pressure after the Environmental Protection Agency released new standards forAndrew John of the John N John Trucking Company warned that the costs associated with the new standards could kill many mom-and-pop trucking businesses." Tuesday. "They go out of business, and we all know how important small businesses are to the economy."
For the first time in two decades, the EPA released new standards that are 80% stronger than current ones and require semi-trucks to cut harmful nitrogen oxide pollution. Image 1 of 3 John N. John has been a family-run trucking company for nearly 100 years. With the strictest EPA standards recently updated, the company is facing challenges like never before."What they're doing is they're including specialized filters, and then we have to include DEF, which is diesel exhaust fluid, which sort of eliminates the nitrous oxide," John explained.
"But there's a lot more that entails with it. A lot more technology, a lot more equipment that comes on the trucks, which means more diagnostics, more things for the mechanics and technicians to learn to fix," John said.
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