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As both owner of a drayage trucking company and a long time Long
Beach residents. I strongly request your board to ban all drayage
trucks which are older than 1997 ASAP. 90% trucks older than 1997
will have about 1 million mileages which are impossible to be
maintained to normal safety standard. They are extremely dangerous
to drive on the freeway and extremely polluted in the area.
Those companies and owner operators, who have such old and
dangerous equipments, barely maintain their equipments to lower
operation cost. Companies like mine who are intending to use newer
and less polluted equipments are focused to be at inferior position
on the market place. 
When we are trying to make sure every truck we operate is safe and
minimum pollution, there are thousands dangerous and deadly
polluted trucks running at ports. The ban should be effect within
months not years. Old trucks pollution is poisoning our kids and
ourselves!!! Please do something about it!!!