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As I said in previous public comments, I feel that the proposed
“Truck and Bus Rule” is not only illegal, but unconstitutional. 
All diesel engines that have been working in California have a
stamp on them that says, “This engine meets and or exceeds the
emissions for the date that it was build and is accepted by the
California Air Resource Board and the Federal Environmental
Protection Agency.”  If that is the case, then the state of
California and the California Air Resource Board cannot change
these laws to mandate these trucks with diesel engines be removed
from our roads or place strict guidelines on them. 
This would be like the California Franchise Tax Board going out and
saying,” California needs money, so we are going to change all the
tax laws back 50 years and now everyone owes back taxes!” 
CARB’s  “Truck and Bus Rule” has been researched by many truckers,
community groups and taxpayer organizations. The general consensus
is that this rule a violation our Constitutional Rights, in both
California and the United States of America. We have the right to
own and work, however CARB is trying to make hard-working Americans
legal for one day and then with a stroke of a pen it is illegal the
next. 
 It is our right to travel where we want to be cause or pleasure or
business. Everyone here in California and in The United states has
that Constitutional Right under the Constitution of the United
States that was granted to us by our Fore Fathers.  In other
research I do believe that there are violations of several Commerce
Acts and the Federal Highway Acts. 
The California Air Resource Board has over reached and abused their
power that they have been appointed too. There has been a lot of
destruction to the California’s Trucking Community. With a
financial burden of replacement of the trucks families that have
been lost there income from a or a few trucks, destruction of good
trucks that should not be sold out of state or destroyed to satisfy
the Truck and Bus Rule. With these Mandates and Rules that are
proposed buy CARB there will be a huge financial drain on the
already fragile economy of California. The coast of the corner
store will be so expensive because of the coast of transportation
of goods into and out of California. There has already been a spike
in the commodities at the situation of CARB's mandates. These
burdens will fall on the people of California and are just
unfounded. 
These Current mandates and rules have been such a burden and there
cost has gone beyond the California boarders. There are so many
people that have sold their home and left the state of California.
Is this right “NO”. There has been so many good people of
California that no longer can come back to the state of California
because the 1000 mile rules does not work for them and the forced
to not come home to see their loved ones be in there home that they
have supported with and paid the taxes for their family of and in
California. The reason that these people cannot come home or cannot
drive their trucks across the California state line is because
there truck dose not conform to the CARB Rules when it come to the
Truck and Bus Rule is that right. As far as I'm concerned if the
truck has a license for the state of California. 
Also there has been a study done that has shown there are 44,000
trucks that are deemed to come off the road at the end of 2014 well
each of those trucks pay $2300.00 in Registration to the DMV of
California. That is over $100 million dollars out of the California
Coffer. Also that is not including the tax base for fuel and other
supplies that are bought in the state. Keep in mind that will be
also 44,000 men and women that are put on the unemployment Line. 

I have sat and read a lot of the Data that CARB is basing their
findings on, I'm sorry there are a lot of holes in this Data. CARBs
data has been filled with a lot of speculation, fraud, and cover
ups. Just not that the abuse of the financial fines have been
unfounded to the public. As it sets the cost for Diesel Particular
Filter (DPF) is so expensive and out reaching of these cost. The
DPF has been plagued with so many problems and has speculation of
several truck fires. We have also seen and rising coast of
operation of the truck do to these DPF units. From the time spend
in the shop for repairs to the cost of the fuel because the fuel
consumption has gone up and Miles per Gallon has gone down. Again
these will be cost that will be a burden to the owners of trucks
and then somehow will need transferred to the general public.

I'm sorry in just the resent months everyone from the founders of
several environmental groups and even the Federal Environmental
Protection Agency has said that they cannot support and denounced
the Truck and Bus Rules and Regulation for this state. 

In all together the Truck and Bus rule has a bad issue with it, and
that is bad for the Californians Truck Driver and the Small and
Lager Business of California. I encourage the California Air
Resource Board to find a better way to implement the Truck and bus
rule. 
Mr. Loren M. Hutnick