Tazz
Infidel
Uhm no. We choose to have trucks.I think a committee of CDL holders should be put in charge of all of the Safety issues in the Airline Industry.
If, in return, the Airline Industy fails and planes start falling out of the sky, just come up with a simple solution: Let people walk.
After all, they say people don't exercise enough.
Same logic. ... or no logic at all. Seems it doesn't matter.
What is the big rush for people who know absolutely NOTHING about the trucking industry to suddenly attempt to take total control of it?
Please don't tell me it's a direct result of collective data that has been gathered over the years.
We are just another vulnerable industry, supposedly with extra money to spare, and we have all had lobotomy's performed... numerous times, thereby rendering us ignorant, illiterate and incapable of making rational decisions on our own.
When the economy flips upside-down, people can just immediately start pointing the finger.
Or better yet, when we run out of diesel fuel, we will ALL perish.
Life depends on Air, Water and Diesel fuel.
Obviously certain individuals do not think that diesel fuel is a huge part of the equation when it comes to sustaining life.
From the time a raw material comes out of the ground (or from a tree being chopped down) it is hauled a MINIMUM of SEVEN times on a truck until it is a finished product in a store... and available to sell to a consumer.
People on this earth cannot exist unless PEOPLE drive trucks, build trucks, operate diesel-powered farm equipment or take oil from the ground and turn it into diesel.
If this is a fact, and what I say is even slightly true, why would you want to make it impossible for me, a 36 year veteran of the highway) to be able to do my job? To take my hard-earned-underpaid money?
This is a really bad time for the trucking industry and I cannot for the life of me figure out what has prompted such a sudden increase in public perception towards truckers that results in the government trying to put an end to us... almost as if they are throwing us in prison and tossing the key.
Are we (and what we do) really that completely misunderstood?
Yeah the way we operate now requires them, but we could (with great pains and whining from city scum) become far more localized. A move in my opinion that needs to happen anyways.