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Peterson is leading the way for Caterpillar in the new Tier 4 marine-engine market.
– Marty Wiemann, marine engine sales and product support, Peterson Power, Portland, 1998–2017
Barrett Carpenter with a C280 engine at Cat’s Large Engine Center (LEC) in Lafayette, Indiana
have to repower with a new Tier 3 model. That’s the big difference. Otherwise, our emissions levels are the same as California’s.”
“Most of Peterson’s commercial marine custom- ers have repowered their fleets to meet the current CARB standards,” says Barrett Carpenter, marine engineer and sales rep (2014–present). “Tier 1 commercial engines can only operate in Califor- nia until the end of 2021, but Tier 2 commercial engines can operate in California indefinitely. In early 2018, we learned that CARB had been work- ing on changes to the Harbor Craft Rule, which would entail repowering commercial vessels to Tier 3 standards in the next few years. California, however, really wants everything at Tier 4 now— like yesterday. So we expect the rule will probably require that at some point in the near future. When our customers heard about the Harbor Craft Rule changes, they all decided to wait to buy new
Peterson marine techs work in tight quarters
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