Yep, my two cents here as well. Thank you for refuting the strawman that people only defeat emissions devices to roll coal. Look, adolescent per-pubescent wanna

Yep, my two cents here as well. Thank you for refuting the strawman that people only defeat emissions devices to roll coal. Look, adolescent per-pubescent wanna-be boys (of any age) will always exist. But diesel emissions controls are currently out-of-control. We buy diesel trucks because it's an inherently efficient engine and fuel that is rugged and should last "forever". However, the current state of the art emissions controls are a mess. Diesel-exhaust-fluid (DEF) injection, particulate filters (DPF), and exhaust-gas re-circulation (EGR) systems barely work. The manufacturers aren't truly incentivized to engineer them to function properly. Even worse, the EPA rules require even more complex and error prone fault checking - most of the time these things fail it's the built-in-test BIT checks and trip-wires. Sort of a DRM for hardware - and that what fails. Now EPA has a mandatory 5 year emissions warranty. Which sounds great until you're on the side of the road and the dealer says it'll be 5 weeks for parts (because all they can do is swap parts). You want to see a lot less people removing this half-assed claptrap? Make the warranty force manufacturers buy back any trucks that are in the shop for more than a week. Make the warranty cover a loaner vehicle of equal value and specs for vehicles throwing emissions codes. Cover RV towing or travel compensation. If we are only "renting" our trucks and have no control over them, then big-brother and big-auto need be held responsible for them. Of course this will never fly - the manufacturers know that these technologies are too unreliable to make that kind of bet on. OK, then have real right-to-repair and not just allow, not just encourage, but mandate, 3rd party parts sources - including software. This would also work. But what we have now is commercial trucks and personal vehicles that are significant investments being crippled. So what would you do? If the white-market and grey-market can't help, you go to the black market and not only fix your truck but get 150 extra horsepower and screw the planet. If you want to save the environment, stop insisting that "nobody needs diesel trucks" and stop keeping the people that do between a rock and a hard place. People mostly follow the path of least resistance. So on gas cars, things like catalytic converters are no longer so faulty that's is worth bypassing for joe-consumer. You want compliance, make it the best, easiest, option. For 99% of the truck owners, being broke on the side of the road, being out of service for weeks, or having a 4-5 figure repair bill is the issue. If you had security that as long as you didn't tamper with the system, you'd be actually be safe from these things, NOBODY would risk it.