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**Hello good afternoon -   my name is Robert Rodriguez I am the
safety and compliance manager for GSC Logistics of Oakland and been
with the company for six years.

And as the compliance manager for GSC Logistics I have always been
given the directives from day one to be proactive, take initiative,
and use the resources that are available in order to educate and
help our valued contracted independent owner operators stay in
compliance. 

I along with our management team have been working diligently with
our owner operators for the last 12 months to meet the upcoming
“Drayage Regulations”. GSC Logistics along with our 150 partnered
Owner Operators were on track to meet the upcoming regulations. 

It was no easy task to have our team of Owner Operators buy into
the "drayage regulations".And after months of discussion explaining
the costs involved form either retrofitting or replacing their
equipment, our owner operators have been complying with little or
no help from the grant funds that would lock them into a contract.

Now you are telling me that I have to go back to these hard
working people which I feel are the most important part of the
commerce chain and tell them that the rules have changed again and
they will have to spend several more thousand dollars to continue
operating their businesses.

How can you tell our industry and the thousands of people involved
in this economy to spend more money?


I urge you to withdrawal the added drayage regulations portion
from the private fleet rule.


Thank you

Robert L Rodriguez