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Originally Posted by Scottt
It has nothing to do with cheating logs. Less than 2% of tickets written by the DOT are for falsified logs. It has to do with my property and my right to what is put in it.
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Where do you operate said property? The issue is that the product that you haul isn't yours, the roads to transport other people's goods on are also not owned by you. You want the right to control your property? Don't take it off of your actual property.
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Originally Posted by Scottt
If the Government was so worried about safety there were 10,600 alcohol related traffic deaths last year. Let's put a alcohol blow machine in every car on the road and the owner pays to put it in and pays a monthly fee to have it. I am sure every car owner couldn't wait to be the first to install one.
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See, that's the problem with most every discussion with drivers.. they have to fly off into "laa laa" land and compare apples to cheeseburgers...
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Originally Posted by Scottt
BTW I could probably do what I do in a week in reverse and still have hours left at the end of the week. I ran 57,000 miles last year and rarely drive over 6hrs a day.
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Well goody goody? The issue is falsification. institutional falsification. Remember all of those good jobs with the good carriers? Yeah, they're gone and they aren't coming back. The deregulation and the throat cutters killed them off. No one can compete with people that will work for free. No matter what industry. The good carriers are gone, the idiot drivers helped the carriers shuck down the pay to basically only mileage (pennies per mile) and falsified themselves into the situation that the industry "enjoys" now. I'm eager to see the autonomous trucks hurry into the industry.. maybe they won't drive as bad as the current "professionals" that are on the roads now.
