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I am opposed to any changes to the Truck and Bus rule as it
currently stands today. The rule is currently very poorly
understood and if allowed to be changed once again will prove to be
even more confusing. 

Specifically, the Loan Denial extension should not be allowed to go
forward. This provision will be impossible to enforce. Legitimate
denials will be impossible to differentiate from illegal
manufactured documents.

All compliance with the Truck and Bus rule has come with a belief
that shippers will partner with trucking companies to raise rates
and make whole those that are complying with the law. To change the
law now, sends the message that shippers as well as early complying
fleets where naive and should not have done so. Non complying
fleets will now have an economic advantage and will undercut
efforts to professionalize and comply with regulations.

While hard to enforce, these current regulation were brought about
because of a real need, cleaner air. Let's not go backwards now by
changing the rules once again, losing credibility, and ignoring the
end result of cleaner air that we started with.