* California - Personal accounts drive CARB hearings
-- The coordination hearings that took place March 13-14 in Fairfield not only revealed that the California Air Resources Board failed to “coordinate” the implementation of its regulations on trucks with local governments, but they revealed that the board’s regulations were arbitrary, unreasonable and are unsupported by scientific data... CARB’s duplicity and rigidity has devastated small businesses and families throughout the state and will continue to do so unless it is held accountable... Personal testimonies of truckers during the hearings were heart-wrenching. Families that have been in the trucking business for generations, had paid for their equipment, built a successful business and planned for retirement are seeing it stolen from them by an out-of-control bureaucracy... One local trucker testified that his only truck would arbitrarily no longer be allowed to operate due solely to age, although it met current emission standards... He applied for and accepted a $62,000 grant through the air quality district to help pay for a replacement truck. His old clean-running and debt-free truck was destroyed under CARB terms. At the time his business had heavy demand, but then the economy crashed and he was unable to make the payments on the loan. He voluntarily returned the truck. His once-thriving business was gone, he had no job and a debt on the truck he had returned... He is still struggling to provide a steady income and is now being sued by the air district for the grant he received... These people and many others provide jobs, spend money in the community and pay taxes. They were operating clean-running, legal vehicles that met motor vehicle standards. A segment of the transportation industry and its employees are now lost – thanks to CARB... The California Air Resources Board is required by 1976 law to enter into coordination with local governments before implementing its policies. Full coordination must be given with regard to economic, cultural and health effects of such proposals. CARB officials not only have ignored the law, but insist they will not comply... The Redding and Fairfield hearings were necessary first steps to initiate legal action against CARB and force them to respect the law...
(Photo: One truck owner Henry Lee does what is best for his business, and one of those decisions has been to avoid trucking in California) -- Fairfield-Suisun, CAL, USA - The Daily Republic, by Betty Plowman: A member of the Right Stuff Committee - March 31, 2015Labels: truckers complaints
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