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Dear ARB Board Members,

I operate a fleet of 150 Large Semi Trailers in California.  The
New Rule before you will have little impact in Reducing Green
House
Gases AND will drastically increase my cost of doing business in
California.  The Benefits assumed by Trailer Wings and Wide Tires
are mostly unproven.  Many statistics are at speeds above 55
Miles
per Hour.  The legal Truck Speed in California.  I urge you to
delay this rule until the Benefits can be proven in Real Life
Trucking Operations.  Like the ARB the Trucking Industry also
wants
Cleaner Air.  How ever we cannot afford to bear the cost alone. 
Trailer Modification should be proven then applied to New
Trailers
only.  The Cost of Retrofitting old trailers is prohibitive.  We
are currently in the worst economy seen in this country in 100
years.  This is NOT THE TIME FOR ANY NEW RULES.  You must
consider
giving the industry time to recover from the economy before you
force more costs upon us.  I suggest you put off any New Rules
for
3 years and we all work together to expand Fleet and Trailer
Modernization programs.  This will clean the Air Faster and share
the cost with all Californians.  It should NOT be the Trucking
Industries burden to provide all the finances to fix the Air in
California.  We bought our Trucks and Trailers in good faith,
they
were legal and compliant.  Now the ARB is changing the Rules
after
we have made our investments.  If this rule passes my trailer
fleet
worth  over 3 million dollars will be all but worthless.  This is
no different than elimnating anyone's 401K plan.  My personal
wealth I have built over my life time will be eliminated with
this
rule.  This NOT Fair.  Like cars and Catalytic Converters we need
to Phase in this new technology.  I urge you NOT to Bankrupt a
large percentage of the Trcucking Industry in California.  We
need
more time to comply if we are going to stay in business.  Thank
for
allowing me to submit these comments.

Ron Silva
CEO
Westar Transport
Selma,CA