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No Trucks For You . . .
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2023/01/02/no-trucks-for-you/
By eric - January 2, 2023
One of the new things the New Year just ushered in is a ban – in California – of the use of any heavy truck (or bus) made before 2010 on public roads in California. This includes out-of-state trucks attempting to deliver – or pick up for delivery – goods in California, which will mean higher costs for the rest of the country as much of what comes into the rest of the country comes through California first, after having arrived via sea at California ports.
So, what has just happened – it went into effect yesterday, January 1 2023 – is that California’s bureaucrats, whom no one in the rest of the country voted for or over whom the rest of the country has any electoral control over – have just-like-that assured we’ll all be paying more for what Californians voted for.
“When we passed the regulations in 2008, it was to reduce community exposure of toxic air contaminants, it is 100% to protect public health,” said Gerald Berumen, one of the California bureaucrats whose reach extends nationally.*
The assertion made by Berumen is of a piece with most assertions made by his fellow government bureaucrats – such as those that asserted “masks work” and that Big Pharma’s drugs are “safe and effective.”
How much this is going to cost all of us is not easy to quantify but some idea can be conjured via extrapolating what it will cost truckers and trucking companies to throw away hundreds of thousands of dollars each of perfectly sound machinery and “invest” in new – compliant-for-now machinery that will also be forced off the roads and onto the scrap pile by the next bureaucratic decree, the one that will disallow the sale or use of any rig that isn’t electric from operating on California’s roads.
That’s coming as certainly as nightfall, too.*
Meanwhile, heavy trucks that cost hundreds of thousands each have been decreed useless by decreeing them unlawful. Owners of these rigs – individual owners and trucking companies that own them – will be denied registration renewal and if that proves inadequate, an enforcement unit will be sent hither and yon to Hut! Hut! Hut! those who dare to defy the bureaucracy. The latter being peopled by wealthy bureaucrats such as Gerald Berumen – who can afford whatever costs his kind impose because they can force the people to pay them. In Berumen’s case, $132,922 or more than twice the average family income in the U.S.*
In addition to what it costs them to comply with Berumen’s decrees.*
There are an estimated 200,000 “non-compliant” heavy trucks and busses in the state, which amounts to about 10 percent of the commercial vehicles operating in the state. Throwing these away and replacing them with “compliant” trucks will cost tens of millions of dollars. But what’s money when it’s not you that’s having to pay it?
Of course, it is we, the peons who’ll be paying it, in the form of higher costs for everything that’s shipped out of CA. Given that 40 percent of the total of “containerized” goods that enter the country arrives in California – the bulk of that coming from Chyna – you can imagine how much more we’ll soon by paying.*
Joe Rajkovacz, who is the unfortunate soul whose job it is to be Director of Government Affairs for the Western States Trucking Association, says that many individual truckers and trucking companies have “simply decided they’re not going to go out and spend $150,000 (the annual salary of a “staff engineer” at the California Air Resources Board)*on a truck that could lead them to bankruptcy.”*
He warns of the effect this will have not only on the cost of things but also on the supply of things. Fewer trucks on the roads in California – and fewer trucks coming into California, from outside California – will inevitably mean fewer things coming out of California. The same basic thing that happened during the “pandemic” and just as artificially induced.*
But perhaps this will turn out to be a good thing – if it results in the rest of the country or even parts of it deciding the time has come to do their own thing. We all know what that means. It is a thing most prefer not to speak of openly but which has been percolating for decades; a thing that most would rather avoid – unless it is unavoidable. Just the same as it was once-upon-a-time, when – after years of trying to make it work – the men who founded what became the United States realized it was not possible to come to a reasonable understanding with unreasonable people.
It was a long time coming then, too.
But when the time finally came, nothing could prevent its coming. We are now very close to a similar time and may have already reached it. We may not even realize it until after it has started.
These people are are beyond unreasonable. They are insufferable. And there is just one remedy for that, which is to suffer them no longer.
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2023/01/02/no-trucks-for-you/
By eric - January 2, 2023
One of the new things the New Year just ushered in is a ban – in California – of the use of any heavy truck (or bus) made before 2010 on public roads in California. This includes out-of-state trucks attempting to deliver – or pick up for delivery – goods in California, which will mean higher costs for the rest of the country as much of what comes into the rest of the country comes through California first, after having arrived via sea at California ports.
So, what has just happened – it went into effect yesterday, January 1 2023 – is that California’s bureaucrats, whom no one in the rest of the country voted for or over whom the rest of the country has any electoral control over – have just-like-that assured we’ll all be paying more for what Californians voted for.
“When we passed the regulations in 2008, it was to reduce community exposure of toxic air contaminants, it is 100% to protect public health,” said Gerald Berumen, one of the California bureaucrats whose reach extends nationally.*
The assertion made by Berumen is of a piece with most assertions made by his fellow government bureaucrats – such as those that asserted “masks work” and that Big Pharma’s drugs are “safe and effective.”
How much this is going to cost all of us is not easy to quantify but some idea can be conjured via extrapolating what it will cost truckers and trucking companies to throw away hundreds of thousands of dollars each of perfectly sound machinery and “invest” in new – compliant-for-now machinery that will also be forced off the roads and onto the scrap pile by the next bureaucratic decree, the one that will disallow the sale or use of any rig that isn’t electric from operating on California’s roads.
That’s coming as certainly as nightfall, too.*
Meanwhile, heavy trucks that cost hundreds of thousands each have been decreed useless by decreeing them unlawful. Owners of these rigs – individual owners and trucking companies that own them – will be denied registration renewal and if that proves inadequate, an enforcement unit will be sent hither and yon to Hut! Hut! Hut! those who dare to defy the bureaucracy. The latter being peopled by wealthy bureaucrats such as Gerald Berumen – who can afford whatever costs his kind impose because they can force the people to pay them. In Berumen’s case, $132,922 or more than twice the average family income in the U.S.*
In addition to what it costs them to comply with Berumen’s decrees.*
There are an estimated 200,000 “non-compliant” heavy trucks and busses in the state, which amounts to about 10 percent of the commercial vehicles operating in the state. Throwing these away and replacing them with “compliant” trucks will cost tens of millions of dollars. But what’s money when it’s not you that’s having to pay it?
Of course, it is we, the peons who’ll be paying it, in the form of higher costs for everything that’s shipped out of CA. Given that 40 percent of the total of “containerized” goods that enter the country arrives in California – the bulk of that coming from Chyna – you can imagine how much more we’ll soon by paying.*
Joe Rajkovacz, who is the unfortunate soul whose job it is to be Director of Government Affairs for the Western States Trucking Association, says that many individual truckers and trucking companies have “simply decided they’re not going to go out and spend $150,000 (the annual salary of a “staff engineer” at the California Air Resources Board)*on a truck that could lead them to bankruptcy.”*
He warns of the effect this will have not only on the cost of things but also on the supply of things. Fewer trucks on the roads in California – and fewer trucks coming into California, from outside California – will inevitably mean fewer things coming out of California. The same basic thing that happened during the “pandemic” and just as artificially induced.*
But perhaps this will turn out to be a good thing – if it results in the rest of the country or even parts of it deciding the time has come to do their own thing. We all know what that means. It is a thing most prefer not to speak of openly but which has been percolating for decades; a thing that most would rather avoid – unless it is unavoidable. Just the same as it was once-upon-a-time, when – after years of trying to make it work – the men who founded what became the United States realized it was not possible to come to a reasonable understanding with unreasonable people.
It was a long time coming then, too.
But when the time finally came, nothing could prevent its coming. We are now very close to a similar time and may have already reached it. We may not even realize it until after it has started.
These people are are beyond unreasonable. They are insufferable. And there is just one remedy for that, which is to suffer them no longer.
