Sentenced to Federal Prison for Deletes
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- News recently broke about a shop owner sentenced to federal prison for deletes. Today, he joins us to talk about the background, case, and what the future holds for the business, his workers and himself.
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Travis goes to jail for tinkering with diesel engines....Jose jumps the border and gets a phone, EBT card and Medicare.....gotta love the government.
And this is why eventually we're going to have to have a 49 state meet and deal with this. It's lunacy. Hey but the current in power families business dealings are all legit.... Iraq war was bs, Afghanistan was bs, Ukraine War is bs and the open borders are doing nothing but feeding our future children's drug problems and hey fuk it let's make African children mine lithium and all the other bs their pushing all to reduce something that has not been proven to cause global warming seeing as glaciers carved the canons and valley's we know of.....Fuk this shit gets me glowing...
Thank you. Thanks goodness for Trump's Wall.
Now that’s funny
@@davidanderson8469there is no wall, the dementia patient shut it down…
You’ll be surprised how much respect people like that get on the yard
ATF and EPA agents must feel like superheroes when they raid shops. They ain’t nothing but some sundress bud light drinkers
Corp Gov Greed EPA To Jail Ask About Nuclear EPA Lie's The Real Cancer Lotto @ 32 CPM
Couldn't have said it better myself
AWWWW all up in your feelings...
I'm saying it, some rat got a big payoff...
And these dancing clowns are yipping it up for saving the planet.....losers
Don’t break the law
Meanwhile in the Midwest, we can’t go outside due to smoke from Canadian arson fires.
I just can not believe this man actually went to prison for putting on/taking parts off of trucks. Time to get rid of the alphabet boys.
I want to see a modern diesel engine tested with and with out emissions and a proper tune! Test for exhaust gasses, mileage and longevity. I think the EPA doesnt want us to have that info.
Exactly. I find in unlikely that everything added up in these emissions systems from the mining to production of them and the Def fluid combined with the decreased mileage and degradation of the engine is better for the environment than a proper tune and free flowing exhaust with today's technology. Someone really needs to do a study on this and prove one way or the other.
Facts mean nothing over govt agenda.
Always when govt involved
Or they have the info considering military pickup trucks don't have emissions devices on the those vehicles.
@@richardbryant3100Rules for thee, never me
The EPA needs to be dismantled!
Imagine when he's in federal prison with murderers and rapists and terrorists and they are like "what are you in here for?" and he's like "i deleted trucks" they are gonna laugh and be like why the hell are you in here then? It is so absurd that you can go to federal prison for some pickup truck modifications. And now to hear that they are attending our shows, God, it is like they are intetionally trying to kill our hobby/lives.
That's exactly what they are doing it's all about controlling the people.
Unless you threaten someone, for a federal, non-violent crime, you go to prison camps - most don't even have a fence around them but a line. Cross that line and you will be sent to medium security.... and that's the worst.
If you voted for green it's your fault
The above statement/reply is true & unfortunately I am speaking from experience. He will be sent to a federal prison camp to serve his sentence, which is also considered a minimum security facility. If your charge is non violent and under or less than 10 years you will more than likely go to a camp, especially if it’s your first offense. You will be given a job like mowing the grass, landscaping, food warehouse, laundry, etc.. There were even guys that left every day and worked for the park service. Most the people there were there for “white collar” crimes such as money laundering, tax evasion etc., which included doctors, lawyers, accountants, bankers & money managers or Wall Street executives. There really wasn’t many “hardened criminals” in the camps. He’s also correct that your not really behind a wall or fence and there’s nothing keeping you from leaving other than the fact that you’ll get an escape charge if/when caught & probably get another 5 years added to your sentence and be transferred to a low or medium facility federal prison. Going to a prison camp isn’t like going to prison at all and is more like going to military basic training except without the guns and training.
Im in for enabling asshole coal rollers to assault pedestrians and small cars.
I’m not even a diesel guy. The fact that the federal government is imprisoning This man is absolutely absurd. We have terrible, criminals running around. We have people raping kids we have people stealing children we have drug attic’s killing people. It is going to come to a point where we as Americans are going to have to fight because what we used to have is no more. This man is being sent to federal prison for modifying diesel pick ups think about that for just a minute.
The emissions systems on these vehicle are ridiculous and unnecessary.
I drive a semi and it's the same in this corner of the market,in 4 months we've had $18k in repairs on 1 truck (DEF Repairs).
At one Freightliner dealer I was at,everyone in the waiting room was in for DEF repairs.
The inconsistency in prosecution is probably due to the political slant in geographical areas. There are areas in our country where a jury would never convict this man and there are areas where the EPA can win such cases. The feds know which areas are worth their time to go after shops. After enough wins in those cases, they will spread out into less obvious cases until they are coming after the small guy.
Agreed ..and Portland is about as. Communist as it gets...
The geographical differences are more monetary than political. He stayed like many fighting the government it was a case of what he could financially endure and the consequences of loosing in the end. The government’s resources are limitless and they have the ability to manipulate things to make defending yourself extremely expensive so a fair trial is impossible.
@@beefman62they are both one in the same. There is large investments into new green energies and reduced carbon due to the government because the EPA is a department of the government. This is a political mindset transferred into a strong arm on companies. The problem is mutually exclusive
@sirseven3 I believe it would be overall in the best interest of oil companies to assist in the defense of these companies as the aftermarket is geared towards prolonging the use of oil. The government and specifically the EPA do not have limitless money and have to operate within their budget parameters. They can not fight everyone in a year or they would. However, if shops band together in a class action towards the EPA's overreach, even preemptively, then the EPA can be made to submit. The burden of proof has always been on the EPA to show direct links of harm or damages, not generalized science. Most vehicles are in EPA emissions compliance, and going after the small percentage of vehicles and companies in violation of noncompliance is a waste of the EPA'S time and does little to improve the environment as a whole.
Fed charges that's a massive over reach.
EPA has been proven wrong down here in florida by diesel shops left and right. If they are going off the "clean air act" then they have to outlaw trailers. The second a trailer is hooked up and you start driving down the road. You are "tampering" with the emissions system.
The EPA deemed Diesel Exhaust Fluid a Carcinogen and OSHA deemed it a potential workplace hazard, so they don't really know what it will do to those who are around it all the time. This country has fallen so far from it's founding, the EPA needs dismantled and rebuilt with elected officials.
This is not true. I think you googled & got results for “diesel exhaust”. If you look up the actual msds for def, it shows it’s not carcinogenic. FWIW, have you noticed that nearly everything causes cancer in California? Apparently, DEF is so safe, it’s one of the few things that doesn’t.
...or just reign it in with proper boundaries. The EPA should only be involved when interstate issues are in play. If there is an air quality problem that adversely affects multiple states, it's an interstate issue. If some farm boy is goofing off and rolling coal from a deleted truck, it's a state/local issue because there is no way that is going to affect multiple states. Seeing that the parts do not pollute at all until they are installed on a vehicle, it's none of the Feral Government's business at all, even if the parts are sold across state lines. If we kept the Federal Agencies within Constitutional bounds, we wouldn't be having these problems. Heck, Federal Law could even require all vehicles that are imported and/or sold across state lines to be equipped with compliant emissions equipment, but as soon as those vehicles are owned by private citizens and consumers, it's none of the Feral Government's blankety-blank business!
The US Feral Government needs to leave the American people alone and focus on real problems that actually fall under the authority of the Federal Government--things like border security, foreign policy, monetary policy, international trade policy, and so forth. These are all legitimate Federal issues that our government needs to stop neglecting or performing poorly. We the People need to demand this too and quit letting our wannabe overloards run amok with their power trips. They do not have the legitimate Constitutional authority to do this period.
@@jeffs2809 All the good stuff gives you cancer in California, and all the bad stuff doesn't. I wonder why that is.
Just need to delete the government. All departments it's all fraud.
There's only one way to resolve this
Yeah, don't break the law.
@@moki123g Or do like we told the British years ago. We've already took more of this crap than our founding fathers did.
@@moki123gbased on the numbers of the laws on the books to date... you have no idea what breaking the law is anymore... the average American commits four felonies a day... How many do you commit? Don't say none, because that would make you completely ignorant. I'm guessing your on the ignorant side already...
@@moki123g fed
Government overreach is insane now. Meanwhile airline industry has zero emissions systems. Why is it on consumers to maintain flawed emissions systems
Look at the military, as a veteran I'm not ragging on the men and women that fight for us. The equipment we used i.e. hummers, tanks, helos, spew out emissions too. The Abrams tanks when running jet fuel are far more cleaner & efficient.
@@jamesmiddleton660and all are emissions exempt. Those men and women are in life and death situations, but a lot of the people running civilian equipment are in keep your house/lose your house situations over emissions equipment
Not only that but all of the container ships going back and forth across the ocean. Nobody is giving them shit either.
@@jamesmiddleton660 lol
imagine thinking military fights for anyone beyond huge corporations
Didn't the Supreme Court just slap down the EPA, limiting their jurisdiction of people's personal property ?
I would like to see if this applies to people altering their personal vehicles themselves.
It certainly should and with the right lawyers it should hold up in court that you have a right to alter your own personal property. My truck.
Not a commercial truck not on the interstates. It's my truck.
I read about that. They brought it into court. They claimed "it is illegal to remove any emission systems that came installed from the factory " they're going after the people who make the products more than the installers
See the episode from Aug 3, 2022 "SCOTUS Rules Against EPA! Or Did They? | ASK A LAWYER" that ruling did not apply to vehicles.
It is your truck, but everyone breathes the air.
The real problem is yes it can be argued that pollutant vehicles cause environmental and health issues but the burden of proof is to prove unequivocally that any of the vehicles this poor shop owner worked on directly effected any one person's health or destroyed the environment. The EPA is not a legislative body in and of itself. If they want to impose their will, it has to be specifically spelled out and specifically proven on a case by case basis after being approved by congress through all the checks and balances. The EPA has no rights to seize property or devalue a vehicle by deeming it unsaleable either. Everyone who has been affected by these unconstitutional rules should band together in a class action suit.
Meanwhile we’re getting poisoned everyday from above, below, and all around by the same 3 letter agencies. Good job 👏 fed nothing gets past you guys 😮.
Maybe focus some of those detective skills on those squatted trucks now , or is it ok to drive around looking at the clouds being a full retard?
@@MrPeacekeeper44you arr correct in that assessment, but the EPA has more money for lawyers than the diesel brothers. They can stall and stall and stall and drag out the proceedings until the common man cannot afford to continue. This is common practice for all departments of the government in a prosecutorial position
I want my truck to perform to the best of its ability with out smoke. And with out having the emissions on the truck.
You don’t even need to say without having emissions equipment on the truck; your first sentence covered that. A truck won’t ever perform to the best of it’s ability with the emissions systems still intact
Almost Every piece of of government owned equipment is diesel. Our floor scrubber for the hanger was retrofitted with a mechanically injected Kubota diesel without emissions on it instead of the electronically controlled common rail deal that the public has to buy.
The real problem is lack of transparency and consistent application of the law. The feds seem to interpret laws to whatever agenda they want to push. The entire industry should join the fight for clarity and personal rights. As one comment said the airlines have no rules and the federal authority off the interstate seems like a stretch. Buying parts should never be a crime they are just metal and plastic. Just like guns never kill people parts don’t break laws either.
My favorite quote "liberty must be maintained at all hazards". My favorite verse "where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty " . Obviously we have a government that is operating outside it's own oath to preserve life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Lol are you that dense? Your rights stop when they are infringing on anothers rights and due to particulates and nox from diesel exhaust many people are forced to take medication or stay indoors due to the issues caused by these things. So no you don't get to run around making it impossible for others to be able to have their rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If you feel that you can do this then let's have you expirience the same thing that you are asking others to go through. If you are not willing to do that then you shouldn't be putting others through it
Unfortunately, the current trends among the facists and leftists in our government and our society are far too reminiscent of the spiritual prison time that I served in fundamentalist Christianity and even in moderate, mainstream Christian institutions where rules were the norm and often enforced without consideration for circumstances or even limited exceptions. If I did not have a relationship with Jesus, I wouldn't want anything to do with Christianity because of what it did to my family and me. The way so many mainstream Christians got on board with mandatory masking and vaccination and the ways in which so many of them judged others who disagreed with their approaches speaks volumes.
diesel trucks are not the problem
America.. where you can delete your weiner but not your diesel truck
This is why I delete peoples trucks for free. 😊
The fact ur work is done “pro bono” is irrelevant, Genius.
I dnt understand why they want to mess with him when there's so many more bigger, much bigger fish out there. Plus with it being his first time in trouble there shouldn't be any jail time, especially federal prison which makes him a felon. How you gonna say he needs to follow all the rules but then take his civil rights (right to vote and bare arms) away by making him a felon for a bs reason like this. Hope everything works out for him and all the others dealing with the epa.
They chose him because he is a smaller fish with more limited resources and it leads to an easier conviction which sets a prescident which will lead to more convictions.
@@waynetate9895 spot on 🎯 he doesn’t have the funds to fight something like this like bigger shops do & probably would. This guy has a good mindset & will come back stronger. It will be like the Barbra Streisand effect, their attempt to remove him got him publicity which will make his shop more popular.
You don't loose your right to bear arms if convicted of a felony. The 2nd amendment can never be stripped away for any reason. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that one looses rights for any convictions. One thing has nothing to do with another. Become a felon and loose your right to protect yourself ?? Never saw that law. But people fall for it. People are so gullible.
Lost the war on drugs so lets go after the tax payers.
They didn't lose the war on drugs. Theyrebclear,y just allowing it to happen and in the case of Oregon completely legalizing it to keep people dumbed down and pacified.
Gotta keep the war going. Its big money in funding for the control freaks.
Just sat on a jury for that. Dude had over 2 grams of meth and got 18 years.
They're not losing. The drug addicts are.
If the gov wants the emission system on so bad that fail, they should pay the bill when they break. The auto companies don't pay the bill we do. Its not cheap and can cost what the truck is worth to fix in some case even if you can get the parts.
With the court system as backed up and failing as it is we need to just chop off parts of the government like the epa and atf to start with
All government planes should have dpf filters on them that would solve all our problems. Fjb
Never take a plea. We the people will say NOT GUILTY.
Don't be so sure about that. I would like to hope you are correct but the jury is hand selected and members can be disqualified for almost any reason.
@@waynetate9895 this is so bad i know they set an example
Says the guy thats NEVER been in that situation. Having been in that seat where its all bad, And you have spent HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF $$$. And there's nothing left to fight with, You pretty much have NO choice.
@@waynetate9895I agree with you 100%.
The people posting; "He should have fought it" are not people who are volunteering to contribute significant amounts of money. This guy faced the most vicious and well funded prosecuting lawyers in the history of the world, and right or wrong, he stood no chance.
It is bazaar that CARB is able to trash things up in other states. I say "Trash things up" because mechanics and owners in other states no longer have free market options to buy perfectly functional replacement parts at reasonable prices. Make it affordable to keep a vehicle's emissions equipment operating (It is OBSCENELY expensive now), and most reasonable people will prefer to keep equipment stock.
So how do we all get together to change the legislation? Are there any active groups fighting this?
This is why i love my pre emission truck
Here in s Carolina there is no emissions and all the diesel trucks are deleted
Wrong its not a state law it's a federal law. It doesn't matter what state u live in.
And now EPA feds are headed to S. Carolina 😂
Imagine the arresting epa officers roll up in there no emissions powerstroke ha!
You’re probably joking, but all of the federal vehicles used in the USA are equipped with the same engines and emissions everyone else gets to deal with. Only the government and military vehicles that may see use overseas are the ones that may not have emissions equipment. All of the civilian type vehicles I’ve driven in the past ~30+ years (all in the US) were no different than the ones anyone could buy off the dealers lot & had all of their emissions equipment present.
this is why ill be keeping my older truck for ever!!! all this new stuff is junk, im a mechanic and see many problems caused by these exhaust systems
Wait until they make it illegal to drive an older truck. That will happen. It's just a matter of time.
How do unelected bureaucrats get to write law?
It does happens, in a corrupt system.
One of our biggest problems current day within our government
Kudo's to Travis for telling his story!! Is he actually having to serve time in prison or was that time suspended? I was curious as to what caused the EPA to start investigating his business? Delete jobs being filmed and posted on social media that agents viewed? Reviewed invoices from suppliers for parts purchased that were required for delete jobs and got the purchasers name and address to investigate? Crazy!!!
Unfortunately the tuners and industry brought this on themselves.
Idiots with 4” exhaust rolling coal are prime examples.
Rolling coal has always been illegal. Local authorities just don't enforce it. So I guess now the feds do.
Exactly why I will always own my 2005 cummins.
Same here with my 05 powerstroke and no its not a 6.blow !! I refuse to have a truck that drinks DEF !!
@jamesmiddleton660 what other powerstroke was made in 05 that wasn't a 6.0?
@Colt_121 what I mean, yes it's a 6.0 and people have labeled the "6.blow" due to the headgasket failures resulting in massive blow by from the engine oil add neck and such. Or that the engines just blow meaning they are shitty. I was just stating that mine has been great even with mods.
2000 7.3 crew cab dually! My baby ! Will never get rid of Betsey
@jamesmiddleton660 Oh I totally agree. I still have my 07. Everyone loves to talk shit about them but no matter what you buy somebody will always have something to say.
We the people should not comply with there request!
Just act like they do, go ask the government for documents that our public record and see how fast they comply and what you receive. You won’t receive much and they will fight you for everything.
Stand up people and stop the over reaching government on every level.
Some people in Government see the earth as their god. I’ve had some run ins with those types of wackos.
So let's break down what emissions equipment does.
All it does literally is capture the fumes from your fuel tank and pumps those vapors into the manifold when the pressure builds in the tank. When the tank isn't under pressure, or your engine isn't under load the evap valve opens and dumps the fumes into the air. So the only difference between today and cars in the 60s which didn't have any of it is this. They released the pressure when you opened your cap on the tank.
There is absolutely no way for a engine after combustion diesel, or gas that it can separate un burnt fuel from the exhaust gas. The whole thing is a scam .
You’re picking part of one system (evap) out of several different emissions controls. Evap is only used on gas powered vehicles for one. Also, if it purges when the engine is not running, it does so through the charcoal canister.
I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say in the last paragraph. If it’s something regarding EGR, I’m thinking you might not understand the purpose of EGR.
Never comply, you will be arrested if they have the info they need..... NEVER EVER a reason to give them info they don't have even if you are subpoenaed
I am newer to the diesel world and would like to do some mods once my warranty is done but the more I research the more confused about what people can and can't do with their vehicles. Until they figure this out I personally think I will just keep my truck stock. My understanding is it appears to be the only thing you can do to your vehicle is repair with stock vehicle parts or upgrade with CARB approved parts and tuners, correct?
One of the things I don't get is a lot of the tuners and high flow/lowering back pressure upgrades can help with towing and fuel efficiency if done right and you drive responsibly. Isn't this a good benefit for the owner and potentially better for the environment?
That's why i bought a glider while you still could.
Good for u. The key is to win the game by knowing the rules.
This is overboard. The EPA doesn’t even know what they want to do, yet they are prosecuting to this level is unbelievable. Let’s see the emissions truck vs delete with a proper tune. The cost and down time involved with some of these trucks can be extensive. Let’s see what the actual mpg on a s X s comparison is on a 2024 trucks with and with out emissions.
On a Tesla cam channel a few different commenters were bragging how he was reporting diesel shops and got them shut down. Some say they would follow people who smoke so they could get a picture of the driver wait for them to park and photograph the truck and report it.
Makes me wonder a bit, I have had several people in these evs and hybrids follow me with a cam as if I did something wrong. I have a pre-emissions truck so good luck.
Here's the thing. Any mechanic knows full well that they're not allowed to mess with emissions systems and have known that for a very long time. This is not a new thing. Having gotten away with breaking the law for a certain amount of time does not inherently validate the illegal act. If you don't want to go to jail don't break the law.
Isn’t an rfi a gross infringement of the 5th amendment?
“Yes sir I installed this emissions defeat device on joe blows truck”
It’s easier to catch the owner, cause there the ones who keep records. Remember, they can compare oem specs within certain parameters/ years/ conditions. The other is bank records. You’ll see it’s not a guy who does a delete, it’s the ones who see a big jump in parts, and it’s origins, if you had unlimited resources, you can find anything on any one.
so basically hes not smart. the shop by me just puts "ecm update" for tunes and only does cash work for deletes to keep a clean paper trail
U r %100 correct
The EPA at dyno events etc…I’m not shocked or surprised tbh…it’s probably been going on longer than people think
Rich Rebuilds got harassed a while back and his lawyer (also a racing company owner) said that the EPA wants to power to be able to go after you for even putting custom wheels on your truck or car. But there is one law that gets in the way of that happening. They are trying to get rid of that.
1 NOT AGAINST BIKES OR BIKERS, I own a bike, but why is it OK for a bike to be loud and free flowing but not anything else? Do aircraft have cats, etc?
It's not OK to modify urr auto when urr an adult but it's ok for kids to decide if they want to be the other gender or an animal where the other kids and teachers have to refer to them as cat, catself, they them or are required to have a litter Box or unicorn trough so they can eat, or have radical surgeries?? But can say the pledge cause God is in it. WTF? All I can say is WHAT THE FUKK HAS HAPPENED TO THIS WORLD?
I think bikes are supposed to have some sort of cats inside the pipes. I know most do not. I do know the epa hit up Harley-Davidson or a tuner company for selling a tuner for their bikes.
@@jeffs2809 Like I said I'm not picking on any 1 but man I've heard some bikes that shook my windows for miles. I'm all for noise cause it does save lives but I also don't want to burn up from no atmosphere. I loved open headers teens through 30s, now in early 40s I love my Town Car just quiet mostly and loud when pedal is down. Why I love those electric cut out systems, or tuneable exhaust. Nobody wants to be loud AF at 0430 but nice to hear that rumble when u like.
@@jeffs2809 Also in old days cops would use their nite stick and shove it up the pipes to see if it was open or not. Guys would screw in a heavy sheet metal screw so I'd stop but still loud.
Having been in for 19yrs I can tell you that the US Army doesn't have 1 single piece of equipment with emissions on it. No def, no dpf, no regen. Nothing, I wonder why
The EPA came down hard in California on the Smog Shops doing illegal testing and illegal modifications to gas powered vehicles and dozens of shops got jail time. It's because of flagrant violations of EPA laws on a vehicle is a felony. This means that each modification is a felony and shops in California had dozens to hundreds of violations because they were literally making millions per year from installing illegal turbos, injectors, cam shafts, illegally tuned ECMs, removing CAT converters etc. and then passing these vehicles in a Smog test. The owners of the vehicles would pay the Smog Shop thousands of dollars for each illegal set of modifications and a passed Smog Test, like $10,000 per car. These shops were working 24 hour a day-7 days a week., especially in LA. The EPA is a brutal agency and I, as a 30+ year ASE certified Master Technician with both Smog Licenses and about 100 factory certifications did not want to lose my way of making a living, so I obeyed the all the laws. Now this more than a decade long crack down in the gas vehicles market is happening to the diesel market.
so im confused here, whats the federal penalty difference on deleting a diesel compared to just driving one. lets say i borrowed one from a friend cause my car is in the shop. i can receive jail time for driving one. this is a hypothetical question i state.
I would think that the moment this man received a subpoena for records, this subpoena should have been turned over to his company lawyer.
By turning over his business records, he basically admitted to all counts named in this indictment. The EPA played Kangaroo Court based on this man’s honesty. Utter BS.
Why does these EPA rules andrestrictions apply to the working stiffs and yet when feds can buy and use trucks without all this emissions stuff . I was shocked that this stuff is not on the trucks they use.
We have the right to stop them from being in our events.. pretty wasy to background check all spectators and make everyone buy tickets in advance or asking each person and not allow them in.. its our right to deny services to anyone
Fuck background checks
The Federal Government excels at turning honest men into felons. It's just what the Department of Injustice loves doing.
Easy way to see this situation. He knew he was breaking the law. There are/were WARNINGS on all of the parts and/or software he and his people installed. He did the crime, now he can do the time. Plain and simple
Now ask yourself, why is this even a crime when stealing 950 dollars worth of stuff from a store is not a crime? Why are repeat offenders of car theft and robbery are being let go but if you miss a tax payment or if you install the unapproved parts in a truck gets you a MASSIVE fine AND jail time.
There are a number of Constitutional violations involved here. Citizens are not obligated to provide information that has the potential to incriminate themselves, and information that was provided to an agency in good faith to authorities should not be admissible in court for incriminating the people who provided the evidence. Besides, the Feral Government is Constitutionally limited to interstate matters, and according to the Tenth Amendment, issues like this are State or local issues--not federal ones.
Thanks to Prop 109 passed by liberals in California you can't imprison a non-violent felon. One guy's still out after 57 felonies. Then this man commits a non violent crime and gets prison. The world's crazy unjust.
What about the Government orders for new diesel trucks with no emissions?😊
What about the new SUPREME COURT rulings related to EPA & CLEAN AIR ACT?
Maybe consulting 2A attorneys and other civil rights authorities.
We covered that with an attorney on the channel last August. It has a lot of information and we’d recommend checking it out.
sadly, as i am sure this shop owner will attest too, even though he agreed to take the plea deal set forth by the government, there was no part of the deal that guaranteed after fulfilling his end of the plea agreement that he will be able to emerge from the ordeal and continue on with his business as usual, it's a very real possibility that the conditions of the plea deal, which i am sure include a felony conviction, may render an individual ineligible of meeting the conditions required for legally owning a commercial business like the ability to be bonded...........
I live in the portland area. I wonder the name of his business. I don’t need work much, but want to support victim s like him.
Excellent Podcast.
Very informative, thanks much.
Join the New Civil Liberties Alliance BEFORE the EPA contacts you so that you know in advance how lawyers are contesting controversial agency abuse.
Read the 2010 legal treatise Is Administrative (agency) Law Unlawful? to understand the theory.
If you contact a different lawyer or outfit, make sure the lawyer you talked to has read that treatise first.
Congress has to pass to put into law. The EPS putting out new regulations that most are not passed.
If our forefathers saw how we treat each other over transportation they would literally throw up in their mouths.
I cannot fathom the diesel brothers being in the same cell as a catalytic conveter thief
The problem is there going 2 get some on something and they known the cost of lawyers and time and knowing the Average person mechanic shop don’t have the time and money so bottom line they want you to plead to something they make money and they make you into the example how they can mess with people on whatever reason they won’t
This is what happens when idiots roll coal for attention and then complain when they get it lol
Got sentenced to prison for making vehicles more efficient....MY CELLMATE MURDERED SOMEONE. -our "system" is FU/
You should have plenty of customers cause these newer trucks dashboard is lighting up everywhere with nightmares getting ready to happen
This guy might have added "green house gases" the equivalent of moving a container ship a few inches..
usc 42 7522 does in fact, prevent manufacturers and shops from defeating emissions controls in any way shape or form, by law.
might be kind of crap, but that is in law.
a person (re: private citizen, on their own) can mod their own vehicle if state laws do not otherwise require the emissions systems to remain intact (I.A.N.A.L., etc), but you can't offer services or parts to intentionally get around emissions systems in road legal vehicles.
and if you get caught doing it, they're going to try and slam you for as much as they can, even if its not valid items for prosecution. and you have to fight every last bit.
for minor infractions, up to 2500/incident in fines. for higher level infractions, up to 25k/day per violation in fines (this ones mostly limited to stationary pollution sources, i think?).
as for the jail aspect; 42 U.S.C. 7413(c)(1) allows up to 5 years if there's a second or added conviction of violations by companies/manufacturers defeating emissions control devices/methods.
now, this said.. there is some iffy language in 7413 that may give the EPA wiggle room to tag regular citizens if a given case is before a judge that tends to side with the establishment.
so really, you're kind of risking a hefty fine even messing with this stuff as a private citizen messing with your own vehicle.
which is really crap. if congress wanted to actually include private citizens, 7522 would include a section specifically mentioning private citizens being prohibited from the same modifications.
especially since they're now going after people converting street cars to race cars for track use only. even regular people doing it for giggles.
to me, it sounds like the EPA is trying to corner the market on its authority in every way it can, while working around the WV v EPA ruling. in some instances, they're within statutory limitations. in others, they're verrrry much not. but they seem to be trying, and hoping the court in each instance sides with them, instead of the letter or even spirit of the law. and some judges will defer to chevron without any thought on the matter.
question becomes; do you want to be a test case and potentially have your life ruined?
again, N.A.L. T.I.N.L.A. its your ass in court if you get tagged for a violation, don't be a bone head.
As soneone that has had assholes roll coal imto their window, this doesnt bother me at all. The coal rollers were the nail in the coffin for modifying diesel engines. And somehow I still see assholes running around town rolling black fog over pedestrians and cars with their windows open.
Rolling coal, loud exhaust, and ignorant drivers havent helped public opinion.
Let this be a lesson, as much as I hate the EPA, you DON'T mess with emissions!
Ya know I don’t used to roll coal but now I do it all the time because of this stuff
Its not against the law to remove these parts or mechanics would be outlaws its against the law to use these modified vehicles on government roads!!!! Why not charge the violators not the mechanics...
An illegal act was committed and somebody was prosecuted. Period., All of us who have been wrenching in North America have know that removing or disabling emissions control equipment is unlawful. The discussion seems to dance around this simple issue. NO, I don’t like emissions controls, especially the crude vacuum operated stuff US cars had in the 70’s. But we have no choice, just like seat belts and air bags. If they are so sure that they can tune a vehicle to outperform its factory configuration, go ahead and prove it to the EPA or whomever and get a waiver.
Sounds like another find the person and look for the crime
Perhaps 🤔 should file legal litigation against the manufacture’s and demand a federal recall on the defective emissions parts 🤔
Would enforcement change direction ? Would you be guilty of repairing under right to repair a defective part or system not being warranted by the manufacture and if the federal government complicit or actor of approval of said defective parts and erroneous licensing of the manufacture defective parts and systems 🤔
You'll never beat the system at it's own game, particularly by using the system against itself.
Should have just smoked crack, laundered money and lied on a firearm form...I hear nothing happens when that's all you do.
F around & find out.. he found out & sealed his fate.. Blatantly giving the 🖕to the regulations for profit is not the way to get regulatory authority’s to reconsider their decisions or at least find a compromise..
Never plea out!
Do a Uber and set up in Luxembourg or China or Russia. Sell nothing from USA nobody was jailed from Uber and $12 billion was taken from Australia taxi owners. The loans to banks for the Government taxi licence still have to be paid suicide bankruptcy. 3 generations of families assets gone. Each Uber drivers must be worth $250,000 on the share market for the corporations $60 billion for a Share ride taxi drivers app. So big now they are buying out taxi booking companies or at least partners. So a giant monopoly.
Obviously not worth doing illegal mods if you're a legitimate workshop.
EPA modern-day gestopo
Ok guys wtf this is not anything new and is no different than the laws regarding licensed shops removing cats off or working on a system that has had the cat removed.... If you were willing to risk it and do something that you know violated the law then you made the decision to accept the consequences when you get caught
Obey the law.
Nobody is above the law.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
So I would agree that some of the emissions devices are problematic. But no one can think that these idiots out there blowing black smoke didn't cause all this. Shops that do the work or provide parts and equipment that promote this should be responsible. Black smoke equals un burnt fuel and solid particulates in the exhaust. There are ways to increase horse power without the dirty emissions. The shops that are getting caught knew what they were doing.
Cant fight the government. Their gonna do what they want too always.
why won't they just comply...
Abolish the E.P.A. !!!
If the government can run brand new trucks without emissions so can the rest of the USA