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[TomC]

I have seen many a truck and bus go to the crusher that were perfectly fine-except for the dirty running engine, as compared to the engines now. Yet-both my '77 AMGeneral with 8V-71 mechanical and my '85 Kenworth with Cat 3406B mechanical are exempt because they are RV's. Do figure. Good Luck, TomC

[CrabbyMilton]

The idea to scrap a good bue just because of a "dirty" engine is idiotic. It's bad enough that an engine has to be declared dirty but then not even considering repowering an otherwise solid bus but that's just wasteful. Look how well "Cash for clunkers" worked out.

[belfert]

I have seen many a truck and bus go to the crusher that were perfectly fine-except for the dirty running engine, as compared to the engines now. Yet-both my '77 AMGeneral with 8V-71 mechanical and my '85 Kenworth with Cat 3406B mechanical are exempt because they are RV's. Do figure. Good Luck, TomC

The average motorhome is driven something like 5,000 miles a year while a commercial vehicle probably gets that many miles in a month.  I can understand why they would exempt RVs.  For a lot of businesses the engine regulations probably aren't a big deal as they replace vehicles often enough to get new engines by the time they are required.  Small businesses, especially farms, will be hurt as they tend to have older vehicles or vehicles that don't get used much.