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I support HB 883 and 884 because they will apply a $250 fine on tractor trailer drivers who modify their exhaust stacks on purpose to be VERY LOUD, vibrationally percussion felt and used as a tool of harassment towards smaller vehicle drivers that obey the 55mph speed limit on Route 17 in Fauquier County. Signs can then be posted that state the fine for this is $250.00 instead of where it is now at only $30.00 if the police even pull them over for it. On the police citation it would fall under the topic of "Equipment Failure", but it's NOT really failure all the time as it sometimes can be from the exhaust stacks internal components falling apart to muffle the sound. A tractor trailer driver will purposely modify the exhaust system in the following ways to PURPOSELY use it as a tool of Harassment towards other drivers and homeowners. 1. Install stacks that are much wider in diameter and can be x1 or x2 Exhaust stacks. This creates a more bellowing sound affect, kind of like a church piano organ but without the heavenly sounds. More like obnoxious adults that have personal issues it seems. 2. Removal of the top curved portion of the Exhaust stack that muffles the sound that State Police have informed me is known as a "Straight Stack" once top curved portion is removed. 3. Removal of internal baffling muffling component's. When these adjustments are made and a tractor trailer then uses their ENGINE BRAKES which is also known as a JAKE BRAKE it creates that LOUD noise and percussion wave that is heard for miles. If you are within 1000 feet of the trucker then you will also FEEL the blast wave as well as HEAR it coming thru walls of a home, windows and doors. It wakes children up from sleep at night, makes it hard to study school work or for anyone to sleep or focus. Truckers are supposed to use the normal quiet braking systems, but many will use the ENGINE Brake (Jake Brake) instead that were designed to be EMERGENCY downhill heavy load braking systems and DOES NOT wear out as quickly as normal quiet braking systems. When a trucker modifies their exhaust stacks to be purposely louder and then chooses to use their ENGINE Brakes (Jake Brakes) it creates the LOUD sound and wave percussion that NO ONE LIKES in society except for a trucker. A law exists that protects truckers from being harassed, however they are ALLOWED to harass other drivers to speed up past a established speed limit, or harass homeowners along roads. Dump trucks are also notorious for this problem, but typically it occurs because they let there exhaust stacks wear out and DO NOT maintain them which police refer to "Falling out of calibration". SB 883 and 884 will help this PROBLEM to stop in ALL of Virginia by raising the fine, and posting SIGNS to alert truckers NOT to do this. It's TIME for Virginia to fix another LONG term society problem. I am NOT anti-truckers, but I am against truckers harassing other drivers and homeowners like BULLIES. Cyber bullying exists and laws have been implemented to address that. These bills will help STOP the bullying in this way also. The ports of Virginia will be at full operating capacity in 2027 per VA Transportation Secretary Sheppard Miller statements at 2024 General Assembly. That will bring more truckers onto Route 17 to deliver cargo to the inland marine port in Front Royal Virginia. Many will most likely have modified exhaust stacks and use Jake Brakes.