Editor's Notebook June 2025

Craig Mongeau - Profile Editor in Chief - June 2025

My goodness, we're already in June and halfway through 2025. I don't know about you, but it's flying by for me, probably because I'm older and as I've said in this space before, time really does feel like it goes by more quickly when you get to a certain age.

Anyway, being halfway through the year, we're only four and half months away from the next N.Y.S. Highway & Public Works Expo in Syracuse. As such, I thought it would be a good time to give an update on where booth sales stand: Our large floor spaces are 85 percent sold and we currently only have one 40-ft. by 30-ft.; three 40-ft. by 20-ft.; and three 20-ft. by 20-ft. spaces available. All of our 40 by 40s and 40 by 50s are sold out. We have sold more than 50 percent of the 10 by 10 booths spaces. Overall, the show is more than 70 percent sold. Thank you for helping the 2025 Expo get off to such a strong start. Please contact Amanda Hogeboom-Guilfoyle, our trade show manager at [email protected] for details about exhibiting.

And finally, to follow-up on a story we published in the April issue of Superintendent's Profile titled, "New Advanced Clean Truck Rule Facing Stiff Opposition," about the ACT rule, the neighboring state of Vermont recently halted its state's electric vehicle sales requirements for passenger cars and medium and heavy-duty trucks. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott cited his primary reason for doing this were warnings from automakers that they could limit supply of gas-powered vehicles to dealers in the state because of the EV rules. However, he also mentioned that Vermont doesn't have anywhere near enough charging infrastructure and insufficient technological advances in heavy-duty vehicles to meet current goals.

Vermont joins Maryland and its governor, Wes Moore, who in April delayed enforcement of the rules until the 2028 model year, citing concerns about tariffs and charging infrastructure funding. Oregon also did the same, saying the stats department of environmental quality would pause enforcement of California's Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule immediately.

To review, at the beginning of 2025, the New York State government began requiring truck dealerships to sell a percentage of zero-emission vehicles, or ZEVs, for trucks weighing 8,500 lbs. or more, with those percentages required to grow at a steady rate for the next decade.

So, hopefully, New York State will soon follow these other these other states that have simply stated they can't meet these goals at this time or anytime soon. P