Posted by paul on June 15, 2016 at 06:56:22 from (173.27.49.32):
In Reply to: Tier Four Trucks posted by showcrop on June 15, 2016 at 06:38:05:
What is the payoff for the decreased mileage, greater initial expense, increased complexity, and more repair bills?
If it 'saves our planet' well then sure, its a good thing.
If it changes our pollution index from 1.75 to 1.73? Then we are spending a whole lot, giving away a lot of manufaturing jobs, and becoming a weaker country, for negligible gains?
The automatic can be designed into any truck, so that is a seperate issue.
On farm tractors, the emissions are terrible. In a cold climate like mine, they are horribly terrible. Chore tractors on a livestock farm will run 5-20 minutes twice a day. That is not terribly efficient, but it is the job that needs to be done. With the emissions, you end up high idling the tractor once a week for 1/2 hour for the emissions to run often at the worst timing, seems like quite a waste.
A trucker probably likes it, you don't pay the bills (assuming not independent if you are rotating trucks from your employer) and we are garenteed more trucking from our ports as manufacturing in this country is shut down, more imports?
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