Are there any consequences for rolling coal, much less needlessly polluting the environment with extra sound?
Anything short of seizure and scrapping for parts seems insufficient.
Anything short of seizure and scrapping for parts seems insufficient.
Edit: There are consequences for shops that modify vehicles: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/washin...
Feels very similar to the whole loud harley davidson thing, where it's supposedly illegal to make them louder, and yet you hear absurdly loud ones all the time.
Paris has also tried automating fines for loud cars: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paris-try-using-sound-sensors...
Edit: Drilling the third hole = colloquial expression for altering a firearm in a manner that violates federal law.
For instance:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/exq9yk/meet-the-man-who-dril...
The thing I don't get is why the police, always eager to write that $100 speeding ticket, don't see these trucks as a goldmine.
Think a few more steps ahead. A few too many instances of "police write $500 ticket to Jose the scrapper who's three owners removed from the one who modified the truck and is just trying to feed his family" is a great way to get the law changed. They'd rather have the law on the books so they can use it in their toolbox of slimy plea-bargain BS than actually enforce it and risk losing it.
There's also institutional inertia at play. When it comes to revenue enforcement police are all about volume vs margin. They have a whole body of case law that makes it easy to just write speeding, rolling stop and DUI tickets and be nearly 100% assured those tickets will result in money for the state or department and the officers themselves are very well trained at writing those tickets properly. So without external political pressure they just keep doing what they're good at.
Equipment violation tickets in most states usually have some sort of "prove u fixed it before the court date" clause that makes writing a $500 equipment violation less lucrative on average than writing 3-5 $100 speeding tickets.
And all this is before you consider the relative availability of speeders to ticket vs coal rolling trucks (many of which can act normal just by changing the tune in software).
TL;DR the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
Maybe, just maybe, we have the wrong people in our police forces.