EPA and their FInes

[luvrbus]

It's been about 5+/- yrs since Don Fairchild told me that Cummins was falsifying their emissions testing and would evetually get caught! He also agreed it was the reason CAT left the US OTR market as it was too hard to legally comply!
Seems like he knew what he was talking about, but then again he usually does!
  BK 

IH didn't even try they used a loop hole and just paid the $1500.00 for each engine,Cummins sued and won and made the EPA close that hole said it was unfare practice on IH part lol and now they are caught.Cat left the market mainly because all the truck manufacturers were going to there own engines and there was no market anylonger for their engines the market share would have been so small it wasn't worth it to CAT 

[Busted Knuckle]

Clifford I somewhat agree with what you say about CAT, but IF (and that's a BIG IF) there are still the kind of O/O's out there like I was (remember I got out of trucking 24 yrs ago), I would think there would still be enough demand for CAT power.
But I'm sure there are NOT NEAR as many O/O's these days and DAMN sure aren't the same CALIBER that we were.

I'm sure many buyers now are simply after economy whether it be up front on the purchase price or over the life of the unit in fuel efficiency, neither of which the OLD CATS we loved qualified for!
RELIABILITY AND POWER were what we wanted back in the day!

  BK