“The California Air Resources Board (CARB) finalized the Advanced Clean Fleet rule, which would mandate that 50% of all state and local government vehicle fleet purchases be 50% zero-emissions by 2024, and 100% by 2027, and create a registry for drayage trucks. The rule — which comes one day after the board voted to implement the state’s first-ever rules to limit train emissions — would go even further than recent California rules approved by President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency, which would cut diesel truck sales in half by 2035.”

Chris Shimoda, senior vice president of the California Trucking Association, told local station KRON4 that the consequences of these rules will be “chaos and dysfunction” like “nothing we’ve ever seen before.”

“The amount of chaos and dysfunction that is going to be created by this rule will be like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Shimoda.“The likelihood that it is going to fail pretty spectacularly is very high. It’s very unfortunate.”