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I am the owner of a company in Van Nuys that employs over 250 hard
working people and operates a fleet of 34 well maintained trucks of
which 90% were purchased new within the last five years.

I have been in business for the last 30 years and have put up and
coped with all the high taxes, over regulation and worker comp
issues and still held on although many times I thought of leaving
the State and ending all of the misery.  This time I mean it! How
much more can we take!!

Business is bad enough, we are down 30% and we are lucky we can
just keep the doors open, last year we had 300 employees now 250
and going down.  We are hoping for a a better year in 2010.

Now you decide that the air isn't quite clean enough and that I
should destroy all of my perfectly running trucks over the next few
years or pay money I don't have to have them retofitted. 

I DON'T HAVE THE MONEY!!!!!!! NOBODY IS GOING TO WANT TO BUY MY
OUTLAWED TRUCKS!!!!! I just purchased trucks last year that cost
$80,000 and with CARB I have been told that I couldn't get more
than $20,000 at the very most out of state. THI SI NUTS!!!

The state politicians talk about job's,job's, job's! If these new
regulations are passed I am sad to say that I will look to another
state to move my company or consider early retirement and you guy's
can put another 250 people on the un-employment roles.  

Richard LoGuercio
President
Town & Country Event Rentals