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I have been in the trucking and transportation industry for 27
years and have never seen it as economically depressed as it is in
today.  As a parent and concerned citizen I want to clean the air
as much as you do.  The DTCC alternative proposal gets the long
term diesel emission reductions that CARB is striving for but in a
realistic timeframe.  With 390,000 in-state commercial vehicles
affected, it will be nearly impossible to achieve the mandates of
the proposed Private Fleet Rule without causing a major portion of
the transportation industry to be eliminated.  This will not only
affect the truckers but the businesses that service the industry. 
The PFR will affect and/or eliminate more businesses than the
170,000 referred to in the ISOR. Tens of thousands more secondary
businesses, lives, and jobs will also be affected or eliminated by
the unrealistic timeframe of the PFR as it is written.  The DTCC
alternative proposal will be difficult to acheive but will be
acheivable, whereas the PFR will not be acheivable without
devistating the entire California economy more than we see it
devistated today.