California Dump Truck Owners Association (CDTOA) - California Construction Trucking Association (CCTA)

Well, we just finished covering a full agenda of issues at the CDTOA Summer Board meetings in Ontario, in late July. Good news has been hard to come by these days, so it was exciting to hear your association gave out six scholarships to freshman candidates totaling almost eight thousand dollars. Walt and Janice Dobbs were there to see the new scholarship working group continue the efforts they put into the association scholarship program for at least a decade. When the scholarship report was announced, I could see they were very proud of the current working committee’s efforts.

CDTOA has contracted with a new Southern California Membership Services Director, Greg Wallace. Greg has some great ideas, and comes to us with years of experience in the transportation industry and especially the dump truck industry. I’m sure all of our membership will welcome Greg and he looks forward to attending your chapter meetings and updating you on the many association activities. His cell number is (909) 578-8595 if you need something or just want to introduce yourself and say hi.

CDTOA also welcomed Hank de Carbonel, representing our new allies, the concrete pumping industry. We are working directly with Hank to create the California Concrete Pumper Alliance and subsidiary conference within CDTOA. He will be contributing articles relating to the challenges of running a pumping business here in California. Clearly, pumpers face many of the same challenges we do. This should be a kind of win-win partnership similar to what Greg Dineen does for us with the heavy/lowbed haulers, we support conference within our organization.

Make no mistake, CARB is killing the concrete pumpers too. Plus, they face a variety of issues, including business licensing, CHP enforcement changes, workplace safety, and owner-operator and employee drug testing compliance just as we do. Hank will promote the concrete pumping industry with timely articles in the California Transportation News magazine and we are committed to creating and hosting a separate website for these pumper members.

The Corruption in the System is Unbelievable
We invited Dr. Enstrom to our Board Meeting to give us his perspective on what is happening with the science behind CARB’s regulations. We were all shocked as he reluctantly divulged that he was being laid off at the end of this month. As he shared the reasons why, frankly it just didn’t make sense to any of us.

CARB and the corrupt activists in Sacramento and at the UC school system have stripped Dr. Enstrom of his job at the University of California, Los Angles (UCLA).

These environmental extremists have in my opinion gone too far this time. CARB and its scientific shills at the UC school system, BYU, and Canada are as thick as thieves and have reached new lows by getting Dr. Enstrom basically fired for being truthful and honest about the science involving small particulates associated with diesel emissions. We all now know that CARB has lied to the public about everything: the health effects of diesel emissions, key employee’s credentials and how it was all covered up.

Jerry Brown the state attorney general, the top cop here, has done nothing for the people. He should have stopped Mary Nichols and her professional prevaricators, over a year ago. Is it any wonder that when we found out she and Jerry are good friends, and that he actually hired her when he was governor in 1978, we knew he wouldn’t do his job to investigate this fraud and cover-up? Not only is he responsible for this BS, but he is almost solely responsible for state government employees’ unionization (also in 1978) which will surely bankrupt this state! Jerry Brown – you talk about a blathering you know what!

We all need to be fearful of these activists on a mission from their environmental god to cripple all of California’s industries through their over regulation and the taking of our private property. Dr. James Enstrom blew the whistle on the misuse of their fraud based science and has now been fired from UCLA and the UC system after 34 years of exemplary service to the public – all for telling the truth and showing something they all now lack – integrity.

Hopefully, we have laws to protect good people like Dr. Enstrom from retaliation by CARB, UCLA, EPA, and ACS etc. How ironic is it that a CARB employee, and lead researcher and report writer (for the on-and off-road diesel engine rules) Hien Tran, lies about his academic credentials, and gets a slap on the wrist but still retains a job at CARB, while a 34-year, real academic with a real Ph.D who exposes the truth – loses his job.
Friends and members, the system is very broken, and if we don’t fix it, we are all to blame. We can’t afford to let the crazy extremist 15% fringe on each side, control the majority. We need to take the state back beginning with the Governors office, by backing Meg Whitman for governor, and also backing Steve Cooley, for AG’s office and Carly Fiorina for the State Minority Congressional Senator.
I would hope in the next election this November, we elect these moderates and send their opponents packing. We need to elect public officials who are committed to investigating CARB’s fraud and cover-up, UCLA retaliation of a politically incorrect academic, and stop the reckless public spending in Sacramento.

I would like to invite all of our members and friends to call the Governors office, your assembly and senate members even congressional delegates and tell them we need change (and jobs) and that they need to start by KILLing CARB. This agency is now a useless, fraud ridden and irresponsible state government agency that is a $700-million dollar a year direct drain on the taxpayers and a $100-billion a year regulatory drain on businesses here.

You all need to read the article on page 14, The Golden State’s War on Itself, by Joel Kotkin who is a fellow at Chapman University in Orange, California. I hope he’s Senate standing tenured.

A very angry President,
Rob McClernon