Clean Trucks not just California Dreamin’ for Oak Harbor Regional LTL hauler Oak Harbor Freight Lines found itself in a dicult situation when California tightened its emissions requirements. By the end of 2012, 30 percent of any eet that ran in that state had to comply with US’07 emissions rules. This year that number rises to 60 percent and by Jan. 1 of 2014, it jumps to 90 percent. That could have spelled trouble for the Auburn, Washington-based freight hauler, which has 32 terminals, 1,300 employees, annual revenues of $150 million and 500 tractors, half of them running in California. Many of those rigs use older emission control technology and would need a retrot to comply. “We might have to retrot trucks at $15,000 a piece and you’re putting that on a truck that’s barely worth it,

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