Navistar Settlement

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This almost certainly the MaxxForce 13L engines only. I have heard this "when the crank is put in the block that is the build date of the engine" for a long time. Never made a lot of sense. Thinking about it I may have only ever heard Navistar say this.

If this is the route EPA is taking then NAV has exposure with their medium duty engines as well. I am most familiar with those. See it around the 2007 and 2010 EPA breaks. i.e you will find EPA 07 engines in model year 2011 trucks built in calendar year 2010 using an engine "built" in 2009. Model year, the year that is on your title, has been running a full year ahead of calendar year for decades. Look at the build date on your VIN tag then look at your title.

The cynical think this is for the benefit of the big fleets, rental and leasing companies. If you are say Ryder and you get your "2010" trucks in the first part of 2009 you can run them for five years and sell them in 2015. As 5 year old trucks. But you have actually had it in service for 5 and a half, close to six years. Those extra months add up over thousands of trucks.

The offset is what went on in Ca. years ago and may still be happening. Union 76 among others were buying up cars from the 60's, 70's, 80's and destroying them. For this they got pollution credits they used to offset pollution from sources of their own that they could not or did not want to spend the money to control.