Press Release

For Immediate Release

OOIDA Criticizes EPA Overreach, Effective EV Truck Mandate

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) today announced its opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest assault on small business truck drivers, which represent 96% of commercial motor carriers. The Phase 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles Final Rule effectively mandates that 25% of new heavy trucks sold in the United States be all-electric by 2032.

“Small business truckers, who happen to care about clean air for themselves and their kids as much as anyone, make up 96% of trucking. Yet this administration seems dead set on regulating every local mom and pop business out of existence with its flurry of unworkable environmental mandates. This administration appears more focused on placating extreme environmental activists who have never been inside a truck than the small business truckers who ensure that Americans have food in their grocery stores and clothes on their backs. If you bought it, a trucker brought it.” – OOIDA President Todd Spencer

In official comments filed to the EPA on June 16, 2023, OOIDA outlined issues related to costs, the timeline, safety concerns and operational problems. The EPA Phase 3 rule is one of four key regulatory actions taken by the Biden Administration that could potentially put untenable pressure on small business truckers if allowed to take effect.

The Regulatory War on Small Business Truckers

1. EPA Phase 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles Final Rule
2. EPA NOx Rule
3. EPA Preemption Waivers for California
4. FMCSA Speed Limiter Mandate