What Have You Done As An O/O To Prepare For "CARB-2014"?

Have said for years that the only good thing about CA. is the last ten yards(as pictured above). But sticking with my '03 until it dies...

 

California is the most beautiful state in the union.

 

One day, when they can figure out how to do it, California will do a study and say that farting is harmful to the environment. It releases too much methane into the atmosphere and that's why there's that eternal ugly fog around Los Angeles. They will then require you victims, oops, I mean citizens to to have a special butt filter installed. You will have to go into a clinic where they study b holes and get yours examined. Then they will decide what's the best butt filter for you. Besides your filters, you will have to wear special underwear that when held under fluorescent light will show any methane blast marks and cheese stains left behind. Any marks, you get a fine.

And then somewhere on some website, some victim will ask, "What have you done to be compliant to the new California butt filter regs?" And some people will say, "I am not putting anything in my butt to stay in California." And some victim will talk about how much money he makes in California and butt filters aren't all that bad, and how eventually, you get used to the discomforts and the inspections and whatnot. In fact some people will try to make you feel like having a butt filter is the greatest thing and you're really missing out on a good thing. And they will deceive themselves and say that when everyone who won't take a butt filter leaves California that the labor rates will go up, and they expect to earn more money, even though history has always shown otherwise in California.

Sorry, no sale. I don't believe the hype. They've been doing that carb stuff for 40 years and the sky still looks like mud. Half of us have quite going to California YEARS ago and freight rates have not went up. People are poorer out there now than they were 10 years ago. You guys jumped through hoops, do stupid pet tricks to go to California, yet you don't make no more money than anyone not going to California. I mean if you guys that go out there were making substantially more than what I've seen drivers make elsewhere, I would say that you have a point.

But you don't. Then you try to do the little ol scare tactic, "Well, eventually everywhere else will follow along." That's like saying since the odds in prison that an inmate will be sodomized, we should all prepare for the great rectum intrusion. Ummm, no.

 

3rd year KKKalipornya hasn't been on my plate. The whole West Coast and New England too, for that matter.

 

Lol your post was hilarious but also full of BS. First off the air quality around around LA has improved greatly in the last 10 years. I was there in 1998 and remember the smog and how thick it was. Now it is pretty much gone.

Secondly people are poorer than 10 years ago everywhere not just in CA. It is not all bad I found Cali to one of the more truck friendly states. There are a lot of truck stops, good open roads, perfect weather, and LA is one of the easiest mega cities to operate a semi truck in.

 

The pretty girls are in Brownsville, TX and Florida also. No need for CA. I did break down and buy a new truck last year. A 2013 with a 2000 engine in it devoid of everything that speaks of EPA. Never had a good reason to go to CA, though I have in the past. I got my first bad taste of CA in the early 70's when I was told to report there for my hop across the big puddle to the party in SE Asia. Later, came back thru CA on my way to further hospitalization for injuries. Except on TV, I have never seen a CA beach up close. Really never developed a love affair with CA, especially in regards to trucking. Only thing I do appreciate from CA is my Apple laptop.

 

One good thing about CARB is that its making it much easier to find good hires. We've had a couple of positions open and at least 1 in 5 candidates we talk to are on the job market because their company is leaving California. Who needs businesses here when the state can just earn revenue taxing its residents? Gallon of fuel is $.75 higher per gallon, can of snuff is $3 higher, etc.

How did we resolve for CARB? Sold the fleet, bought an old Pete and will drive it until 12/31/14 then register it exempt under the 1,000 mile a year limit until I can move somewhere else.

 

can you explain this exemption?

 

I'm going to guess that it is an exemption to allow a person with an antique/classic/historical truck to keep it and be able to show it off at truck shows, parades and such...as long as they don't run the truck more than 1000 miles per year.