Dudebros in their diesel brodozers will need to take their coal rolling outside of New Jersey, as the state has banned the practice.
Governor Chris Christie signed the legislation — S2418 — earlier this month, according to NJ.com. S2148 outlaws "retrofitting any diesel-powered vehicle with any device, smoke stack, or other equipment which enhances the vehicle's capacity to emit soot, smoke, or other particulate emissions."
The law's language is echoed elsewhere under current federal and state statutes, but Assemblyman Tim Eustace of Bergen, N.J. says the new law is there to ensure the aforementioned statutes are actually enforced:
It's to actually make sure we enforce the law. We have laws that law fallow, I think, in some circumstances. This doesn't come off as very important unless you've been coal-rolled.
As for what awaits someone more than willing to unleash black smoke upon their fellow driver in the Garden State, the New Jersey State Department of Environmental Regulations will have the power to establish fines meant to discourage coal rolling.
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