Rhode Island runs its freight through a harbour and a short rail network. The port at Providence handles roll-on/roll-off cargo and petroleum, with liquid-bulk terminals at Providence, East Providence and Tiverton. Rail yards work at Providence, Warwick, Pawtucket and Central Falls, and crushed-stone and sand-and-gravel pits sit inland.
An International box truck out of Providence, a Freightliner day cab off a Warwick run, a Mack roll-off near Pawtucket or a Chevrolet dually out of Cranston are handled the same way: send photos and the particulars, we come back with an offer, and if it suits you we'll come to you, buy it remotely, or you can bring it to us.
Rhode Island’s trucking industry is the smallest state but densely connected to the busy Northeast freight corridor between Boston and New York.
Rhode Island emissions
This is the state where the test reaches your truck
All that short heavy running happens under an emissions rule that reaches a diesel truck. Georgia’s programme exempts everything above 8,500 lb outright; this one starts there — the same number, pointing the opposite way. Under 280-RICR-30-15-2 a heavy-duty diesel vehicle — meaning a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 8,500 lb, model year 1990 and newer — is inspected at least annually, and at the roadside. The test is an opacity measurement, the snap-acceleration smoke procedure. For trucks of model year 1991 and newer over 10,000 lb gross vehicle weight rating, peak smoke opacity may not exceed 40 per cent; for model year 1990 and older the figure is 55 per cent.
280-RICR-30-15-2, Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicle Emission Inspections; SAE J1667 snap-acceleration smoke test.
The one thing to be careful with is the total-loss threshold, because it has moved twice in two consecutive sessions and any figure you were told a year ago is probably wrong now.
Rhode Island total-loss threshold, amended in consecutive sessions.