California governor approves truck rule, vetoes CARB requirement

Maria

Diet Coke
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Two California truck bills have met different fates on the governor’s desk.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that is intended to improve safety around certain large vehicles, but he vetoed an effort to impose a rule on the state’s Air Resources Board.

Previously SB341, the new law requires a construction vehicle in excess of 14,000 pounds that operates at, or transports construction or industrial materials to and from, a mine or construction site to be equipped with an automatic backup audible alarm.

Dump trucks already are required to be equipped with backup alarms on construction and mine sites.

Included in the new requirement are tractor-trailer combos used to pull bottom dump, end dump or side dump trailers.

In other action, the governor vetoed a bill that sought to place a requirement on the state’s Air Resources Board. AB135 mandated that at least one of CARB’s 11 board members be a small-business owner.

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