Received a letter from CARB

[DonFitzwater]

I would take the time to write back a polite refusal letter detailing to them exactly how to eat a male reproductive organ and exactly how many bags of them to consume.

 

[kthaxton]

Sheesh guys, he can just ignore it if he isn't interested......no need to get all huffy over a simple request for which "no thanks", or no response at all.....can be the response.
....and people mock the sensitivity of millennials.....smh.

 

[RVTRKN]

In 2010, I had CARB contact me asking me what was my plan to convert my 04.5 to a DPF (due in, I think 2014) because I was considered a fleet with my contractors license and two diesel trucks. You should be worried they have your info. What if they deemed it during testing, it’s a massive polluter, even in stock form. I send the letter back “not at this address”

 

[OLEJOE]

What if you let them borrow it and they come back and say it passed the previous mandates but in a month we’re changing and it won’t pass then? “Oh you can update it or move to another state or pay an extra $5000.00 per year emission tax”.

 

[High Voltage]

That Letter would be lost in the trash.....

 

[HPSimpson]

Just plain ignored the letter really simple.

 

[bigblock_doc]

I got one here in Mi. Same letter, but they were only giving $250.
That was 2 months ago. For the 2500. I'd do it.

 

[OLEJOE]

It may get to be a nation wide thing. Anyone who owns a diesel vehicle might get a letter. I’ll probably just run it through my shredder. A 55 gallon barrel and regen it.

 

[EDankievitch]

Maybe we are missing a really good chance here to educate the CA testing people. Just say we submit a truck or two and they find that in fact the tucks test better and cleaner than expected. That Cummins has it right. The system works. They may just back off being so hard on us and future products if our trucks preform better in real world testing. Granted this is a branch of The Government and all common sense is lost. But what if just this once....
I’d be willing to let them test my truck. I’ve got faith that all this emissions sh*t does in fact work and I really cold use the money.
I’m all for cleaning up the world. Leaving it a better place than I found it. But let’s do it smartly. And the only to do it smartly is to educate those that make the rules that govern us. Sometimes it takes a class sometimes it takes a baseball bat but one way or another they will learn...
Wow this living in Jersey is rubbing off on me... Baseball bat... lol

 

[TFucili]

Hang out in Jersey a while, and "reason" and "thoughtfulness" will recede from reality.

 

[amauri]

Hang out in Jersey a while, and "reason" and "thoughtfulness" will recede from reality.

Same here in California.

This wasn't the first letter I received a letter from CARB...

Some 20+ years ago I used my HJ61 Landcruiser for commuting and everyday stuff, CARB sent me a letter stating that my vehicle was measured at a one of their mobile ck points that scans your exhaust as you drive by (usually at a freeway on ramp).
It was only a courtesy reminder to have my vehicle checked/serviced, they even suggested I may need something as simple as a new air filter.

What they didn't take into consideration is that my Landcruiser was a turbo diesel and the numbers coming from the tail pipe were perfectly within the legal range for a diesel of that vintage.

I ignored that letter just as I have with this latest one.

 

[RVTRKN]

The problem with that theory, they will realize they can get more restrictive, now that they know it works.

 

[HPSimpson]

The mobile check points are on all Ca freeways, there are poles with solar panel and module pointing at the freeway this is more big brother watching!

 

[DonFitzwater]

The mobile check points are on all Ca freeways, there are poles with solar panel and module pointing at the freeway this is more big brother watching!

Yep, this is why California is such a joke to the rest of the country. The problem is that "As California goes, so does the rest of the country". Bums.

 

[bboxall]

Why don't they go to Enterprise and just rent a Cummins 2500? We get rental vehicles at work if all our company trucks are out and we've gotten a 2019 Ram 2500 Cummins a couple of times, a Ford F-250 gas burner, an F-250 diesel. This makes no sense at all.

And let's say that something catastrophic happened to your truck and it was a total loss. They might tell you to see your insurance carrier and your insurance carrier might say "What was CARB doing with your truck? You renting out your truck for any purpose is a violation of our policy's stipulations....." Then, my friend, you are screwed.

 

[Ozymandias]

Rental vehicles don't grow old enough, they dont wanna test new vehicles.

I'm pretty sure that they would pay you a new truck if they trash yours by accident.
Same as they repair everything and all on the truck that breaks while testing - according to the letter from CARB.

 

[RVTRKN]

Government has no right to our private property, unless we agree to it. There is no way I'd let the government test any of my vehicles. They already intrude on us with strict smog testing, which is nothing more than another tax.

 

[amauri]

The mobile check points are on all Ca freeways, there are poles with solar panel and module pointing at the freeway this is more big brother watching!

Those cameras are for traffic monitoring and help us to get up to the minute and accurate updates on traffic jams and accidents along the major highways. A very good thing for those who spend a lot of time commuting to work during rush hour. And its not just here in California.

Big Brother is watching is a thing of the past, now we have Google is watching.

 

[HPSimpson]

Amauri there are two different systems on California highways one is for exhaust emissions and the other is for highway cameras.

 

[amauri]

I didn't know that