California In A Nutshell

The population is moving out already.

When i looked a few years ago. It was close to 46 million.

 

Nothing worse than Californians moving to other states. They’ve been polluting Montana for decades bringing their progressive ideology with them. My view is Californians can stay out of my state and I’ll stay out of theirs.

 

When you send that request for 3 day permit it says somewhere if you don't hear back from them then the permit is still valid for the dates requested.
So print it off fill it out. Back date it a few days. Write the fax # on the back of one of the pages and claim you sent it by fax. Go in do what you have to most likely you won't see the arb guy and the scale doesn't care about arb. If by chance you do meet the arb cop, present the paperwork, and you should be fine. If you don't meet him, shred the paper when you get home and do it again next time.

I did it a bunch of times with my old truck. I still have yet to put eyes on these elusive arb enforcement people. The reason (used to be anyway) to go was the high dollar cross country produce loads. Which in recent years has been like trying to pin the tail on a spinning donkey while you're drunk and blindfolded. And now I have a compliant truck that goes there maybe twice a year.....

 

They say that the sunsets are incredible in California after CARB cleaned up all the pollution. I hear it garners this type reaction

 

i love those signs that say "no water no jobs" not sure what good a job will do you if you aint got no water but whatever. lmao

 

lets all drive our cars to the dodgers game, we will blame the pollution on trucks, the trucks that bring the beer and hot dogs to that same game, i think people in california are mentally ill, that smog cant be good for the brain lol

 

clean air, over population and mass consumption dont really go well together lol

 

I think the no water no jobs thing is because cali is in a drought. Yet they ticket houses for not watering the lawn. GO FIGURE.

No water, no jobs, no payroll taxes. Im guessing is what those signs are about.

 

IMO CARB had a legit mission in the beginning, and accomplished it. I can remember traveling to LA back when airplane seating included a smoking section. Approaching LAX, everything below was a brown haze until you got within about 200 feet of the ground. That's been cleaned up for the most part. You have to fly into Newark to get that tingling in the eyes and burning in the nose you used to get coming into LA.

Now it's like any other regulatory agency that's outlived it's mission: it's never going to get smaller, and now a solution in search of a problem. Regulating emissions on lawn equipment? Really? I think it's been a part of life for the natives so long, most don't know anything else, so they just accept it.

I have a lot of family in SoCal and truly enjoy my visits there. It's a fantastic place to be. However, it's not a place I would ever consider doing any business, especially trucking.