Rod Michaelson
Active Member
Good morning.
This is Rod Michaelson here in Northern California.
There is now an alternative to the CARB regulation called "A Simpler Look."
"A Simpler Look - Emissions for the Common Man" was created by my co-author, Keith Wood and myself (both of us large ,15,000hp plus, construction company equipment managers) to give the construction industry and CARB a meeting point where we can clean the air and also not bankrupt the California contractor, trucking company and dealer network that support our industries.
An outline is located on my newest blog:
Cleanthecaair.blogspot.com
and a link to the power point presentation is available on:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CARBoffroaddiesel/
I have shown the program now to about 100 contractors, dealers, manufacturers, rental companies, trucking companies and others in the associations and support companies to our industries. Response has been overwhelmingly positive.
Showed the power point presentation last Wednesday to CARB staff in Fresno for the first time. Excellent initial reaction.
This Monday, I will travel into the belly of the beast. I will be giving the presentation to CARB staff at the EPA building in Sacramento in the afternoon session regarding off-road regulation changes. My presentation will come at the end of the comment period (2pm to 3pm) is my guess.
A post meeting seminar on the program will then be held at Pape Equipment in West Sacramento where I will go into more and greater detail on how to implement the program.
I have been a member of CARB off-road advisory implementation group for almost three years now. I have represented heavy-civil engineering contractors in an attempt to keep common sense alive in the discussion.
We may have made a difference.
I can e-mail the presentation on Tuesday to anyone who would like to read it over and can not open the above links.
Wish us luck. We will need it. California is in very bad shape.
Rod Michaelson
Equipment Manager
Bay Cities Paving and Grading
This is Rod Michaelson here in Northern California.
There is now an alternative to the CARB regulation called "A Simpler Look."
"A Simpler Look - Emissions for the Common Man" was created by my co-author, Keith Wood and myself (both of us large ,15,000hp plus, construction company equipment managers) to give the construction industry and CARB a meeting point where we can clean the air and also not bankrupt the California contractor, trucking company and dealer network that support our industries.
An outline is located on my newest blog:
Cleanthecaair.blogspot.com
and a link to the power point presentation is available on:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CARBoffroaddiesel/
I have shown the program now to about 100 contractors, dealers, manufacturers, rental companies, trucking companies and others in the associations and support companies to our industries. Response has been overwhelmingly positive.
Showed the power point presentation last Wednesday to CARB staff in Fresno for the first time. Excellent initial reaction.
This Monday, I will travel into the belly of the beast. I will be giving the presentation to CARB staff at the EPA building in Sacramento in the afternoon session regarding off-road regulation changes. My presentation will come at the end of the comment period (2pm to 3pm) is my guess.
A post meeting seminar on the program will then be held at Pape Equipment in West Sacramento where I will go into more and greater detail on how to implement the program.
I have been a member of CARB off-road advisory implementation group for almost three years now. I have represented heavy-civil engineering contractors in an attempt to keep common sense alive in the discussion.
We may have made a difference.
I can e-mail the presentation on Tuesday to anyone who would like to read it over and can not open the above links.
Wish us luck. We will need it. California is in very bad shape.
Rod Michaelson
Equipment Manager
Bay Cities Paving and Grading