Autoblog quotes moronic coal rollers:

SnakeEyeSS · July 12, 2014

Wow, I bet the diesel guys are gonna LOVE this, on purpose or not, it makes "coal rollers" look like complete idiots.

Look at the pics, read the quotes from them. One says FU to clean air....OK, the guy is probably a big smoker and vacations in Chinese Industrial towns. Really, they find the one guy who WANTS polluted air to breathe?

Also, they seem to want people to start reporting "coal rollers" to police. But not just coal rollers, people with aftermarket exhaust, really.

I might not be a black cloud fan, but this is a pretty slanted piece

Here is the link.

http://m.autoblog.com/2014/07/10/rolling-coal-americas-political-divide-reaches-roads-video/?icid=autoblog_dl_article

DaveH71 · July 12, 2014

lol that article sounds like it was written by a 70 year old grandpa who yells at people to stay off his lawn.

Its kinda funny though, we get a lot of mid 90's to early 2000's cummins at my shop that love to do that stuff. Most of the trucks are in pretty bad shape because of their age and the owners wont buy new ones because of all that " new fangled emissions crap" and the prices of the newer diesels.

They only have themselves to blame for the EPA cracking down. Here its a big deal if you remove the DPF and DEF systems and comes with a hefty fine if someone reports it.

Silverado4x4 · July 12, 2014

Saw that video on CNN and it was pretty sad on what they were doing to people walking down the side of the road cars driving behind them and they even got a motorcycle putting his safety at risk and they wonder why they come up with new laws because morons like this create them, hell they even got a police car also. The EPA and law makers will be jumping all over this.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/07/08/erin-pkg-moos-rollin-coal.cnn.html

desrtrat · July 12, 2014

"coal rollers" look like complete idiots.

they are complete idiots..and they will be the first ones who whine and cry when their state makes it mandatory to submit to yearly smog inspection. here in CA they would be classified as a GROSS POLLUTER and taken off the road by CHP and a tow truck until repaired, and reinspected, and fines paid. i'm not a fan of some of our smog laws here, but i have seen a real big difference in air quality here in the last 30+ years...to the rest of the lower 48, your day is coming sooner than you will like...

patriot · July 12, 2014

I'd rather get in front of a "hypermiler" and slow him WAY down.

kstruckcountry · July 12, 2014

Eh I don't see it... The tractor I drive at work has a DPF that has to be refilled with hog piss every 25 hours or so. You can't tell me that's required because of people seeing tractors rolling coal. My understanding is that much of the exhaust filtering is to remove NOx, which is mostly from engines running lean so they don't smoke. That said it pisses me off when I'm driving down the highway and I see a pickup (usually Powerstroke) belching smoke going downhill. If I'm walking down a sidewalk and someone shoots soot on me I'll get pissed then too.

As far as the tractor with DEF, it's a nuisance and the lease will be up soon, can't wait to ditch the POS. Does worse on fuel than older ones and that hog piss is pricey.

Something else, if the people with hybrids are so genuinely concerned about the environment, why don't they all back it down? Most I see drive 80.