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My family has been in business solely in the State of California
for 64 years. We attended the workshops in 2008 and were in
Sacramento on December 2008 for the vote on this decision. The
economy and our industry throughout the last 12 months has only
gotten worse. Our business is down over 30%,
the value of our trucks is so low we can't even get dealers to
take them in trade - basically they have no value and our
customer's are asking for 5-8% decreases for 2010. With a loss of
over $3 million in revenue, we are having a difficult time finding
financing for both the trucks and the trailers if we can even find
it. At the same time, we have to retrofit the 53' vans that we have
- it is financially impossible.
The few Prop. 1B grants we got the offices can't get out the
contracts, even if they had the money, so we might be forced to get
2010 emissions engines trucks rather than the 2007 engines that we
don't need now and the 2010 engines cost an additional $10,000.
We need our government to help our State get this economy back on
it's feet rather than to continue to hamper any recovery.