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  Let me introduce myself,My name is mike and have been around
trucks for 20 years. I have a repair facility that deals with
caterpillar engine ranging from years 1982 to 2006 and have over
450 customers. I have talked with charles ross and I agree on the
action for cleaner air but believe your agency should make rules
for each truck per its year. The consumer is not going to be able
to afford these 15,000. ad ons .I have worked on a trash company
who has the type 3 muffler and compared to a pump I was done
working on that had no muffler made no difference in the smoke
(PM) I believe smoke testing all trucks whether someone owns one
or forty they should smoke test every year. There are owner
operators who own one truck and have never been tested since 1990.
Those are the polluters, forcing them to make minor maintence would
greatly clean up how there trucks burn. Trucks that leave out
facility that are 1990-1993 burn at 15% to 20% opacity. Making a
truck thats old try to burn as clean as a 2007 is going to have
long term trouble. We have allready redone engines with the engine
fumes going into the intake set-up that is on the type 1
requirments. Please call if you have questions 661-723-3333