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How to report polluting vehicles?

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I'm curious about how to report a vehicle on the road that's obviously a gross polluter. The past two days I've seen a couple cars on the road that looked like they were two-strokes. I doubt it merits a 911 call, so is there another number or website?
 
1-800-exhaust,that's if its still in use....
 
Please call the number for people in large diesel pickup trucks spewing black smoke.
 
SikDMAX said:
*makes mental note to smoke out 636 fighters in SC*
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Come down and I'll do rolling burnouts in my carb certified LS1 RX7 in front of your truck after you spew the black smoke. :p :twofinger

I'm all for modifying stuff but the black smoke that everyone else has to smell/ enjoy is like pissing on everyone's lawn.

How about all the diesel pickups can spew as much black smoke as they want as long as it comes out of the front of their trucks? :x At least the big rigs point that stuff higher than regular traffic.
 
Cheese and crackers, get a life ya freakin cry-baby post-era hippie wannabees. You probably cause more polution in electricity use by this thread than the guy you wanna tattle-tale on.

P.S.

I'm glad my POS oil-burning, gasket leaking, Zombie truck registered outta state. lol.
 
Just for the record.... my truck is smokeless on the street.

And I proved my point... without whippin my dick out :thumbup
 
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Man you guys have some huge cocks. I can't even see in here with all the dicks being waved around here.

What's that? A missile?

Ow, my eye.
 
aram said:
How about all the diesel pickups can spew as much black smoke as they want as long as it comes out of the front of their trucks? :x At least the big rigs point that stuff higher than regular traffic.
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Except it still comes back down. Particulate matter is heavier than air. :|
 
aram said:
Please call the number for people in large diesel pickup trucks spewing black smoke.
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Not to report them a polluter, as the diesel smoke drops to the ground within minutes. But still its amusing, was behind one other day when they were passing a slow car on a two lane road. Huge thick black cloud appears outta nowhere. Had to slow down cause of the low of visibility :laughing

Can tell the polluter ones that can smell the exhaust at signal lights. Its too bad its mostly 60-70's muscle cars smelling.
 
I'll take old fashioned diesel to BIO diesel exhaust any day of the week. Not to mention the particulates in diesel are organic and cooler and generally do not wind up in the atmosphere. They do however wind up in our water ways as does everything else.
FWIW diesel trucks and cars have to go through smog. The Sprinter passed last week $92 FFFFFFFFUUUUUUU
 
A new law has just taken effect and 97 and newer diesel cars and trucks are subject to a form of emissions check. There is a visual inspection, some will get checked on the computer for programers, and some are subject to a dyno run where they cannot exceed certain opacity limits for the exhaust during the run. That's why I just bought a federal emissions, 1986 diesel. FU California.

Oh, and you wouldn't believe some of the crap CARB is putting through for heavier duty diesel engines. Funny part about it, the 2-stroke is making a comeback as one of the cleanest engines under the new restrictions. One line of 2-strokes is the only engine currently able to make Tier-4 standards without using urea injection in the exhaust.
 
87cr250r said:
A new law has just taken effect and 97 and newer diesel cars and trucks are subject to a form of emissions check. There is a visual inspection, some will get checked on the computer for programers, and some are subject to a dyno run where they cannot exceed certain opacity limits for the exhaust during the run. That's why I just bought a federal emissions, 1986 diesel. FU California.

Oh, and you wouldn't believe some of the crap CARB is putting through for heavier duty diesel engines. Funny part about it, the 2-stroke is making a comeback as one of the cleanest engines under the new restrictions. One line of 2-strokes is the only engine currently able to make Tier-4 standards without using urea injection in the exhaust.
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Crap? You obviously didn't live in California before CARB. Either that or you're blind or have iron lungs. People that deny the truth of diesel particulate matter and NOx pollution are like those that try to deny we ever landed on the moon even though there's indisputable proof. You must work for the trucking industry. I'm growing rather tired of hearing their sniveling excuses for being forced to do what they never did on their own...maintain their fucking engines. A properly maintained and non-modified diesel engine will not make the plumes of black smoke you see. Shitty injectors and rings are the primary culprits of that and the list of poor engine maintenance goes on.

BTW, you're also wrong on Tier 4, unsurprisingly. John Deere has a Tier 4 engine that uses EGR and a DPF. :|
 
I don't work for the trucking industry. Our engines are much larger and burn much more fuel. They also are much more expensive to replace.

But, I'm not out here to screw the world. I'll give you an example. I've got a failed fuel nozzle on one engine right now. It makes it smoke. I found out yesterday. I'll have it repaired by tomorrow. CARB didn't have to get involved.

When I said Tier 4, I was talking of engines in the 3000-10,000 horsespower range. Forgot that stuff covers the smaller stuff, too as John Deere only has power options up to 750 horsepower. It is a John Deere that has the failed nozzle at the moment, though. It's our Tier 2 John Deere.
 
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I don't work for the trucking industry. Our engines are much larger and burn much more fuel. They also are much more expensive to replace.

But, I'm not out here to screw the world. I'll give you an example. I've got a failed fuel nozzle on one engine right now. It makes it smoke. I found out yesterday. I'll have it repaired by tomorrow. CARB didn't have to get involved.
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They do for everyone else. We've actually experienced end users that think back pressure caused their injectors to blow up and cause engine fires. :facepalm Apparently knowledge of how diesel engines actually function isn't a priority for fleet managers. Especially for the port trucking companies. The old way of operating a fleet with trucks that you never change the oil on and just continue to drive until they blow up are over.
 
Some engines don't actually specify an oil change interval. Our Electro-Motive engines do not. At rated power, these engines in good condition burn 1 gallon of lube oil per cylinder per day. A 12 or 16 cylinder engine holds 300 gallons of oil. Typical oil change intervals for engines in this class is 1500 hours. By that point these engines have burned their sumps out twice, so we don't change their oil. This, however, doesn't effect the emissions of the engine.



But.... if you want to talk about operators of diesel engines in the port causing pollution. Yes, I agree, they are a big part of the problem. But, the laws CARB is passing are not going to do anything about it. An overwhelming percentage of truck drivers in the port are from foreign countries and they just don't give a damn about pollution. I can't tell you how many times I've come to work on a rainy day to find an oil slick in the water around our boats. We freak out thinking we may have spilled oil and spend an hour or two investigating only to realize is the fucking rats at the truckyard nextdoor dumping their used oil on the ground along with hundreds of pounds of other miscellaneous garbage. Yes, we've doccumented and reported this.
 
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Just know that the people writing the CARB laws know even less about diesel engines and their emissions than the operators who barely maintain them.
 
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