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Originally Posted by Lady18wheels
Well, does this mean Harvey's gonna pay $100+ to get his hazmat endorsement? What about you Doc?
I won't pay $100 for the haz-mat, it would only condone the money making scam every state is trying to pull on the very people who help the economy move along. Not to mention the "finger printing" bull shit that comes along with it. Some how I thought the era of COMMUNISM was dead.
Does the idea of finger printing all drivers make me feel safer, HELL NO! It shows signs of an Anal Retentive group of politicals running amuck all the while hiding behind a hastily written law called the "Patriot Act!"
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they should pay YOU to pull stuff that blows up
than again, them tanker yankers gotta have something wrong in thier head ...
Well, I guess I would fit in this category real well, damn I really miss tanker yanking for fun and profit... Oh, wait I guess it was more for fun cause, there sure as hell was no profit in it!!!
Somewhere in the not to distant future a load planner gets a call from the company's biggest account, let's say NALCO, he turns to the dispatcher and asks for the availability of a truck to pick up this "hot" load from the money account. The dispatcher, in turn, tells the planner he had no one to pick up the load due to the lack of drivers who hold the Haz-Mat endorsement on their CDL. Panic fills the room, what to do, can't tell the shipper there was no one available...
Now envision this same scenario with every company plus, lines and lines of commuters waitning to fill their vehicles fuel tanks when no gas haulers are driving.
Would the politicals declare war on the very same drivers they helped out of a job due to insane demands and unrealistic laws???