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ATRI adds 3 new idling regulations to updated list of rules

ARLINGTON, Va.  — The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has added three new idling regulations to its updated listing of state and local idling regulations on its website www.atri-online.org .

The new idling regulations include:

A new five-minute limit has been established in the state of North Carolina.  Idling beyond this limit is allowed for air conditioning or heating sleeper berth compartments during federally mandated rest or sleep periods.  This exemption expires on May 1, 2011.  Other exemptions include the idling of engines which meet the California low-NOx idling standard and when using an auxiliary power unit. A new 15-minute limit has been established in the state of West Virginia.  An exemption is provided for sleeping or resting in a sleeper berth when temperatures are less than 40º F or greater than 75º F.  This exemption expires on May 1, 2012.  An exemption is also provided for trucks displaying a CARB-issued low-NOx idle label. A new five-minute limit has been established in the City of Detroit, Mich.  An exemption is provided for vehicles which remain motionless for more than two hours when the temperature is less than 25º F.
 The updated listing is provided in two forms: a cab card that can be downloaded and carried in the glove box of a truck and the online compendium that provides links to individual regulations.

ATRI continues to monitor the development of idling regulations across the country and maintains the compendium and cab card as a free service to help trucking companies and truck drivers comply with the increasing number of state and local idling regulations, the organization said.

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