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A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS RULED that an air-pollution control agency in Southern California can enforce regulations requiring state and local fleets to purchase lower-emission vehicles. The Diamond Bar, Calif.-based South Coast Air Quality Management...
Washington – The Washington-based U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created a new diesel truck emissions program that is designed to ensure emissions standards are met under real-world driving conditions. The program, developed in...
New York — New York has passed a series of laws aimed at reducing emissions from its truck fleet, including sanitation vehicles. One of the laws, which were signed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg last month, requires the city’s on-road diesel vehicles...
REAR-END ACCIDENTS ARE the second most frequent motor vehicle accidents in the industry, following backing accidents, according to an industry study of accidents in waste fleets. When a waste collection vehicle strikes another vehicle in the rear...
SANITATION VEHICLES TEND TO BE large and not particularly speedy — both of which can be good. The size, speed and amount of time they spend on the road make the vehicles moving billboards that private waste companies and local waste departments...
Washington — The National Solid Wastes Management Association (NSWMA), Washington, has launched a weekly e-mail newsletter that focuses on safety issues. The newsletter will be issued each Monday, and is called NSWMA Safety Monday. The first two...
A NEW YORK CITY SANITATION worker recently became a victim of violence. While picking up trash in March, two workers were caught in a hail of gunfire that resulted in one being shot. Fortunately, the worker is recovering. Yet the Occupational...
AT A LANDFILL OR TRANSFER station, safety is about saving — saving lives; saving families and friends from suffering; saving equipment; and subsequently saving money by reducing overtime, workmen's compensation and insurance payments, and the need...
