Study Group Session: S.5 Fleet Maintenance Management — Regulatory Update for Fleets: Emissions, OSHA, FMCSA, & Other Alphabet Soup

If you think you know what’s going on in the world of federal and state regulation — think again. Changes in presidential administration always bring some measure of shift in policy and regulation, but the changes presented by the second Trump administration have been unprecedented. That has left manufacturers, suppliers and equipment users reeling from the sudden uncertainty that’s following a four-year period of increasingly stringent emissions, manufacturing, safety and labor regulation. 

The California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) Regulation was designed to transition medium-and heavy-duty vehicles from diesel-based to zero-emission powertrains and the process had already begun in 2024, with the percentage of Class 7 & 8 truck-tractors required to be zero-emission-based rising to 40 percent by 2032. However, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcing it is “reconsidering” heavy-duty truck emissions standards — as well as EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases altogether — CARB has announced it has withdrawn its request from EPA for a waiver to implement its proposed Advanced Clean Fleet initiative (ACF) that would drive fleet demand for zero-emission vehicles. 

Similar uncertainty exists in other federal agencies such as the Federal Motor Safety Administration (FMCSA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), etc. What once was a certain pathway to increasingly stringent emissions, equipment and labor regulation has been turned on its head, but for how long? 

Attend this session as we map out the volatile state of regulatory implementation and the effects it will have on your operation. Actionable information will be shared so fleets can plan and execute effective plans with your organization’s C-level leaders, administrative team, maintenance management and technicians.

Moderator:

• Wayne Skinner (National Express, LLC)

Speakers:

• Nick Chiappe (California Trucking Association)
• Patrick Kelly (American Trucking Associations)
• Ben Greenberg (North Carolina Trucking Association)
• Nick Martin (AIM Transport Services)