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To Whom It May Concern: 

Amending the final rules at this point would severely punish those
carriers, both large and small that have made the sacrifices and
financial investment to comply and rewards those that ignored the
rules and deadlines. Competition for freight is often determined by
as little at $.01 per mile. Those that made the investment to
comply would be put at an enormous competitive disadvantage at the
worse time possible. We MUST recover our investment in the
technologies mandated by AQMD/CARB , this will not be possible if
we are competing with carriers that have a lower cost point
operating older, non-compliant equipment. 

Carriers both large and small not only were forced by the
regulations to purchase newer more expensive equipment but were
also required to sell off non-compliant equipment at what resulted
to be “Fire Sale”, wholesale prices. By amending the mandated
regulations you will be forcing the compliant carriers towards
bankruptcy and those that chose to ignore the rules, hoping for
extensions into the power position. 

We as a complaint carriers implore the board to stay the course.
It’s too late to do anything else. 

Who can’t NOT qualify for loan ? 

Respectfully Submitted, 


Steve Benninghoff
COO 
Direct#   (909) 869-1296
Cell#       (909) 208 4198
sbenninghoff@kkwtrucks.com
www.kkwtrucks.com