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JOURNAL NEWS INBRIEF 10/12 • The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a direct final rule adjusting the definition of "gross combi- nation weight rating" to mean "the value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a combination motor vehicle." • FMCSA announced that a change to its Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) program that eliminates the Vehicle Registrant Only designation would be phased in to give those affected more time to comply. The original effective date was Sept. 1. • FMCSA ordered HP Distribution and an affiliated company, HP Distribution LLC, to shut down following a review of the Kansas- based company's operations that uncovered extensive drivers' hours-of-service violations. Continued on page 16 NAVISTAR continued from page 11 Goldline Ad_7x5.pdf 1 1/26/12 1:06 PM meeting the standard – the cleaner the engines are, the lower the penalties will be." EPA said its 1985 rulemaking defines a technological laggard as "a manufacturer who can- not meet a particular emissions standard due to technological difficulties and who, in the absence of NCPs, might be forced from the marketplace." An earlier interim rule had allowed Navistar to pay NCPs while continuing to sell exhaust gas recirculation- based engines that did not meet EPA emissions guidelines pending the final rule. The interim rule was challenged in federal court by Navistar com- petitors who claimed the NCPs did not constitute a realistic Daniel Ustian – Navistar's president, chairman and CEO – stepped down, and the company's board of directors appointed Lewis Campbell – former chairman, president and CEO of Textron Inc. – as executive board chairman and interim CEO. penalty for not meeting emis- sions regulations and therefore gave Navistar a competitive advantage over companies that had invested in – and delivered – selective catalytic reduction-based emissions solutions that met the emis- sions regulations. The court agreed with the plaintiffs, and the status of Navistar's heavy- duty diesel engine lineup had been in limbo prior to EPA's final rule. In explaining its final rule, EPA said that without NCPs, "a manufacturer that has difficulty meeting the stan- dards has only two alterna- tives: fix the nonconforming engines, perhaps at a pro- hibitive cost, or not produce/ sell them. The availability of NCPs provides noncomplying manufacturers with a third alternative, yet protects those manufacturers that have incurred the costs of comply- ing with the standards." Navistar in early August announced that it would reestablish a relationship with Cummins and begin offering the new ISX15 15-liter diesel engine in cer- Continued on page 20 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K 12 COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | OCTOBER 2012 Untitled-43 1 Write 235 on Reader Service Card or visit ccjdigital.com/info 4/12/12 2:42 PM