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04-11-2009, 09:11 AM
| | A-Post-A-Holic | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: upstate New York
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| |  I say this is long over due/trucks only highway lane.
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04-11-2009, 06:52 PM
| | BEEFCAKE!! | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pain Train
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Originally Posted by Apostolic  | Yea its great, as long as we are paying for it! I am curious...how much more money can be extracted from truck drivers? The CDL became a cash cow, higher license fees and higher traffic ticket fees, then there is the haz-mat, they ran out of ideas to extract more dollars, then came twix, or whatever its called, I don't have one. I hope to become an owner operator once this economy gets settled down, I can't throw groceries forever, as an owner I can control my own destiny, providing the gov. doesn't get into the working mans pocket to much more, Bruce Oakley will be my choice, I know 4 owner operators that pull for them, they do very well even in this economy, however, I will have to get that stupid port card and if they go thru with this trucker funded toll road, well, that just means less profit for companies and owner operators, slower service time due to companies using state roads due to cost and on the owner operators side, due to financial reasons as well, someone will have to pay for it, more than likely it will be us.  |
04-12-2009, 04:18 PM
| | Seasoned Veteran | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Georgia
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You are exactly right GT. The trucking industry would foot the bill.
I see no advantadges to be gained for us either.
I can also envision long single lane stretches where a slow truck will have a lengthy, pissed off convoy trailing behind for miles on end.
That will be great for safety and harmony, I'm sure. |
04-12-2009, 04:35 PM
| | BEEFCAKE!! | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pain Train
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Originally Posted by RickyRicardo You are exactly right GT. The trucking industry would foot the bill.
I see no advantadges to be gained for us either.
I can also envision long single lane stretches where a slow truck will have a lengthy, pissed off convoy trailing behind for miles on end.
That will be great for safety and harmony, I'm sure. | I hear ya brother! They would have to have at least 2 lanes, can you imagine being stuck behind a PFG truck for 100 or so miles..LOL |
04-12-2009, 04:43 PM
| | Seasoned Veteran | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Georgia
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I had a pickup a few weeks ago in Louisiana at a chemical plant.
It was not a port, yet they required a TWIC card.
If you didn't have the card(I didn't at the time) you were required to watch a 20 minute safety video and take a written exam to gain entry.
More crap to gradually force it on everybody to gain even more revenue, just like you said. |
04-12-2009, 04:44 PM
| | FOODSERVICE MONKEY | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh,PA
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