Grimes,IA.(Moldavia Daily Mirror)
Candidates questioned at town meeting!
Presidential candidate’s were told they were not being fair to drivers employed by Iowa based super carrier Coop Dispatch. A group of Ukraine, and Moldavian drivers, who make up close to 30 percent of Coop’s seniority list, are saying they are being discriminated against by many of the presidential hopefuls unanimous proposal that any immigrant driver must stop at any structure over a state highway, city, and county roads, and physically measure the clearance height. This includes all bridges,pedestrian walkways, loading docks, buildings, or any over hanging permanently secured structure. Driver spokesperson, Dlaf Urasoff, asked how this would not create a burden on the driver, along with safety hazards of stopping at say, every overpass along all 306 miles of Interstate 80 in Iowa. Candidate representatives countered saying, Iowa constituents call our Washington phone lines constantly saying there is a semi blocking the road hauling containers double stacked. Urasoff told many voters in attendance this would also affect, and create shortages of goods to the whole state, especially light bulbs since Coop is the largest hauler of bulbs of all kinds in the US. Calls to Coop’s Cedar Rapids office for comment, were not answered, and it was not yet clear if the group planned protests at other Iowa locations before the upcoming February 3rd, Iowa caucus’.
