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May 22, 2001 10:30 AM, EDT

The Truck Manufacturers Association will take the Department of Justice to court this week in response to the government’s recommendation that TMA be excluded from a case that led to a 1998 consent decree establishing a deadline for cleaner heavy-duty diesel engines.

MA seeks to delay the October 2002 deadline, claiming its members would have to rely on older engines to power new trucks, since no prototype has yet been developed to test and fit into next year’s truck bodies, said TMA’s executive director, William A. Leasure Jr.

He said it usually takes a year or more to put an engine through various climates and conditions.

For the full story, see the May 21 print edition of Transport Topics. .

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