robroy:
Don’t know about you younger guys who take all this stuff as normal now, but what do you older and experienced drivers think about all this crap?
Is all this emissions thing really that important?.
Yes, we’re definitely bolloxing up the planet with the CO2 released from burning fossil fuels, and we’re definitely causing no end of health problems to people in cities with NOx from diesel engines. Its happening.
It would be nice to think that the inevitability of us destroying the planet could be avoided by a few countries trying to do the right thing, but the problem is so massive it is unresolvable, think about it - less than a billion of us has created the current mess and there are another 6 billion who want to adopt our life styles. Its futile trying, there’s just too many people and they all want to live like us, it’s all going to go pear shape sooner or later.
I think the sad thing about the new regulations will be the demise of the small haulier. I was an owner driver, have been self employed nearly all my life; you can carve a niche out for yourself, run older trucks maintain them yourself, undercut the big boys and do OK. The recent changes to high tech wagons with all the electronics, emissions and maintenance problems and the need for specialised workshops to maintain them is just playing into the hands of the giant companies who can run new fleets and undercut by scale of size. The days for the small independent haulier are numbered, and that is sad.