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I am the owner of a petroleum transportation company. I started
this company 7 years ago. For the last six years my company has
not
shown a profit. Every dollar earned has been placed back into the
company to purchase new trucks. I now operate 47 power units.
Most
of these truck are still financed. I never budgeted an extra
$15,000 plus for each truck. Now the state is going to make me
pay
an additional $700,000 to stay in business. Where is this money
going to come from. 
For the last 5 years I have financed nothing put the newest
engines possible. But the CARB is now saying this is not good
enough. Pleas tell me how CARB and the state developes a budget,
to
then find out later, this business model will not work, because
your entry into the market is an additional $700,000.
The people on this board need a lesson in business.
I have always hated southern California because of the air. And I
am the first person that would like to change it. And if the CARB
board would have done their job years ago, all the new engines I
have purchase would be clean today. Shame on CARB. It is not the
trucking companies fault we have bad air and people are dying, it
is CARB's fault!
Now to make thing worse we have an economic problem. 
I do not know of one trucking company that has not seen their
business sales drop by 20 to 50%. Wake up people. The air is 20
to
50 percent cleaner now! 
These trucks are a lot like your house. Their value has dropped
down to about 50%. You think it is hard to sell a house, try to
sell a truck. On top of that, when you get ready to sell your
house, which the value in some place has dropped 50%, I hope some
State agency comes along and tells you you need to first spend
another 50%  to sell it.
Why are we wasting our time in Sacramento doing this right now.
Build cleaner engines now!!!....problem solved.
Sorry, only had five minutes to write this, and send. 
Rather spend my time working on how I can keep my employees
working right now.