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A Michigan diesel shop has been ordered to pay a major fine for a scheme to delete emissions controls from hundreds of big rigs.

A trucking company out of Gaylord and several people have been sentenced after federal investigators say they deliberately removed the emissions control systems from semi-trucks in violation of the Clean Air Act.

Another domino has fallen in an emission-defeating scheme that involved two trucking companies. Find out details of the scheme.

Michigan-based Franklin Ray was sentenced to 212 months in prison for multiple fraud schemes, including a trucking company investment Ponzi scheme. Also: Another guilty plea in emissions "delete" case; Truckstop adds load notifications to app; more.

In what is described as the largest case of its kind, 11 people and 3 companies are accused of disabling emissions controls on semi-trucks.

Eleven men and three companies have been charged in a scheme to alter emissions equipment on diesel trucks, violations of the federal Clean Air Act.

Eleven men and three companies are accused of violating the federal Clean Air Act by altering emission controls on diesel engines.

A Howard City man is the first of 11 defendants to plead guilty accused of tampering with emission-control devices on heavy-duty diesel engines.

Three companies and 11 people have been charged with violating the Clean Air Act in Western Michigan after emission control systems were disabled in semi-trucks.