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My wife and I have been completly put through the ringer in regards
to this trucking industry.  We purchased a 2008 Kw 900l so we would
not have to worry about California laws just to loose it to a
cheating lease purchase company.  We lost our truck and ride in
December 2011 and was not able to purchase another truck because of
lost contract and job.  We fought hard to be able to get back to
what we love and finally was able to purchase a 2005 Kw 900l custom
in May 2012.  At this time we still did not need to worry about
California because we were a single truck and not a fleet.  We
planned to buy a new truck or build one for the custom work we do
in the aviation transportation and to meet clean air for
California.  Things were looking great for this and we had already
started to build a new truck to be ready for mid 2014 when on
September 2017, 2013 we were in a major truck accident that was not
our fault.  Here we go again out of work for 5 months waiting for
insurance companies and shops to get this truck back together.  In
the meantime with no income and no insurance money coming in we had
to stop this new truck build and suffer from lost of wages and let
our credit go to pot.  We have done everything to try and rebuild
and now California is showing discrimination against us because of
the Jan. 2012 in fleet change.  We definately fall under the
hardship program for the extention and don't understand why the
direct attack on the owner operator.  I understand the clean air
change however the big companies can afford to do this and We can
not with just one truck of income coming in and just barely having
enough to make one truck make any money at this time with this
economy.  I hope things start to get better but would need to have
the government and California understand that not everyone fits in
the same group.  Major companies and big fleets have more money to
be able to play around with the percent of trucks to be in
complient than that of a 1 truck company.  We don't just have spare
money to make these changes.  My truck was consider complient when
it was built and should still be considered ok till it dies.  The
trucking industry is making only new trucks since 2010 and the old
trucks will slowly die off anyway and then a new one will half to
be pruchased.  If 1 truck is considered a fleet then why don't we
get the discounts and help that the fleets get.  You can not have
it both ways.  We deserve the discunt help and special loans if we
are considered a fleet or if not then don't put me in the same
rules of a fleet.  1 truck is not a fleet.  Please put things back
and the single truck owners will eventually be able to get new
trucks when these die.

We feel we more that meet the hardship and feel we should be
allowed to get extension till the Jan 2017 at which time by then we
will already have a new truck anyway.

Thanks James Helmuth owner of Majesty Transport of Kentucky