N.K. trucking firm owner given probation, fine for conspiring to violate Clear Air Act

PBN Staff

12/13/2023

A NORTH KINGSTOWN trucking company owner was ordered to serve three years of probation, perform community service and was fined $50,000 for conspiring to violate the federal Clean Air Act. His companies were also fined $125,000 each. / COURTESY U.S. DISTRICT COURT

PROVIDENCE – The owner and president of a North Kingstown-based trucking company was sentenced to probation and fined $50,000 in federal court on Wednesday for conspiring with other companies in the U.S. by selling and providing a software program that tampered with on-board vehicle computers to alter or bypass emission control systems, according to Rhode

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