A glider is a new truck frame on an older rebuilt engine. The exhaust that spews out of the stacks is as dirty as the original engine.
The owner says
2008 Freightliner Coronado Glider Kit with the legendary Detroit 12.7 S60 engine, has 500HP 10sp manual eaton trans, 3.42 rears, 845k miles. NO eld NO emission, NO egr, DPF DEF or any other “F”.
Of course this concept gives liberals and environmentalists an asthma attack thinking about it!
A “glider” is a diesel freight truck assembled by installing a used engine and powertrain in a new truck body. Because their engines were built under outdated pollution standards, the EPA estimates that glider trucks emit 20 to 40 times more smog-forming nitrogen oxide and soot-causing particulate matter than new trucks on the market.
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Fuck yeah! Read a little more about these “super polluting trucks” and saw this in an article:
“As such, the number of glider kits in the truck fleet jumped from under 1,000 gliders before 2010 to more than 10,000 in 2015. And though glider trucks made up about two percent of heavy-duty truck sales in 2014, the EPA estimates they accounted for about 50 percent of the air pollution from all trucks.”
Sadly the EPA closed a loophole letting more of these beasts onto the roads. Hot knowing there still so many of these pollution machines out there though!
Hell yeah! The owners make more money dumpin this shit out!
That’s a sad state of affairs when our government blocks companies from making a healthy profit to protect the environment. We need more of these awesome nasty engines spewing their fumes.
Pollution standards suck! I’d so much love to smoke out these environmentalists with this huge truck, spewing these toxic fumes as God intended