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We are a small Ready Mix Concrete firm (11 trucks)in the Northern
Sacramento Valley. Because of the nature of our business, the
nature of people in Construction and the weather, we need a lot of
trucks for a short period of time each day. 

In the Heat of the Summer, people want to pour concrete in the
6am-10am range. Ambient air temperature is detrimental to placing
and finishing of concrete.  It also adversely affects the people
who do the work.  Likewise in Winter, with cold temperatures and
slower set times, concrete must be poured early in order to prevent
concrete people from working into the night on overtime.  While we
have 10 mixer trucks, it is generally safe to say that 70% of them
are parked after about 4 hours use per day.  In this current
economy, it is rare that all 10 are used at all on any given day.
Since they are seldom used, they are older trucks.  A new Mixer
Truck costs approximately $130,000, you simply can't run newer
equipment with such little use, it's a financial no-brainer.


Over the past 3 years, our Diesel purchases have dropped from
approximately 36,000 gallons in 2006 to 33,283 in 2008 and 31,805
in 2009. The Construction Industry meltdown has already achieved
the goals set by AB 32.

Also, given the Housing Industry collapse and the Banking meltdown,
I have no idea how we can comply with your regulations. I have no
idea how we can borrow the money necessary to upgrade our fleet,
who we could borrow it from or how we would be able to pay the
money back.  There are grants (none available)guaranteed loans but
only for Interstate freeway corridors that we do not use.

I respectfully urge CARB to re-think their actions.