States pursue anti-idling incentives

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Efforts are underway in multiple states to increase the incentive to get truck drivers to stop idling.

States were given the ability in 2005 to allow heavy-duty trucks to exceed the 80,000-pound maximum weight limit to encourage the use of idling-reduction equipment.

In recent years many states have adopted rules at their statehouses to increase the weight limits for trucks equipped with auxiliary power units up to an additional 400 pounds.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 29 states have laws that authorize the weight allowance for commercial vehicles. There are 15 states where the weight allowance is granted by enforcement policy rather than by state law.

States yet to permit the 400-pound exemption are California, Hawaii, Kentucky, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Tennessee. The weight allowance doesn’t affect state highway funding eligibility.

On Oct. 1, the law known as Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) took effect. Included in the new transportation law is a provision to allow states to increase their APU weight exemption another 150 pounds to 550 pounds.

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