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To whom it may concern,

First I would like to thank you for the extended deadlines and the
ability to report and get waivers to remain compliant. We have
taken every opportunity we are aware of to remain compliant and
right now we are on a waiver because we were turned down twice for
financing a new filter last year, so we are legal until July of
this year. 

My husband, David, and I are owner operators, he drives, I
dispatch. We have one truck, a 48' flatbed and live in Idaho.

This truck provides for our family. We work hard; load to load,
repair to repair and hope every day that we get a payment before we
get another repair.

This truck feeds our family and puts a roof over our heads. I find
loads for my husband and try to get the best rate or find partials
to add onto loads and spend a lot of time trying to maximize my
husband's time away from our family. 

We have an autistic son who requires a lot of additional therapies.
Finding and booking our loads and doing our paperwork allows me to
make the most out of the miles my husband drives, as well as
provides with with semi-flexibility to take my autistic son to his
additional appointments and be available to drop what I'm doing and
be right there for him whenever I am needed. 

We love to run in California because it allows us to keep David
close enough to home that we get to see him a couple times a month.
Our favorite routes are between Salt Lake City Utah and Bakersfield
California or California up to Billings Montana because it allows
us to go see him for a day or 2 when he is in Salt Lake or he can
stop at home on his way through to Montana. He doesn't get home
very often at all. 

Driving California also allows us to keep him out of the bad winter
weather in the northern areas. We only have the one truck, so we
are exceptionally cautious and try to stay in the safest areas we
can because if we have an accident that puts our truck out of
operation, we will go under.

I am afraid of what is going to happen to our business in July when
we are no longer allowed to run in California. I am afraid that
David will have to spend more and more time further away from our
family in order to bring in the amount of money we need to operate
our truck. 

I am afraid that not being able to operate in California is going
to cost us our business and, even worse, our family.

I would love the opportunity to continue running our truck in
California until it no longer runs and at that point replacing it
with a newer truck that is compliant. We do our best to do any
required maintenance and lots of preventive maintenance to ensure
that our truck runs as clean and efficient as possible. If it burns
extra fuel, it costs us money so we try to take every precaution to
keep it in top-running condition. 

Thank you so such for your time in listening to my concern. I know
this is a concern for others, as well, as this really does affect
small companies and has the potential to put many of us out of
business. 

Sincerely,
Pauletta Mckamey
Ugly Dog Enterprises
(208)251-7995