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I'm a Georgia based auto carrier that transports vehicles to and
from California once a month. When I'm in California I can easily
do a thousand miles dropping my load and picking up another load to
leave. So the thousand mile exemption would cut into my business
drastically and the retrofit would seem unfair and costly being
that it would only be required once a month. It would mean I could
only travel to California once a year and the exemption would be
over. Now, I'm on board with cleaner air and all that but a lot of
owner operators feel its unfair to require that there truck be
retrofitted just to do business in California for the thousand or
so miles that might be traveled. And then there are the ones who
either don't have the capital, or the credit worthiness required to
do the retrofit. I would like to know if the ARB could start a loan
program or something like it to help owner operators who are based
outside of California to become compliant or raise the in
California mileage exemption to 7500 miles a year allowing non
California based owner operators to continue to do business in
California for the short time that they are there. 

Damon Hollis