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  1. TeamsterGrrrl
    More Tesla "Vaporware"...
  2. TeamsterGrrrl
    So what's the problem with Siemens?
  3. TeamsterGrrrl
    GE bought the Deutz engine, then came out with a new engine, they build them here. Cat bought EMD but still hasn't gotten a Tier 4 locomotive into production.
  4. TeamsterGrrrl
    Which is your absolute right. But what happens when they come up with a "morning after" test for residual alcohol and fire you for getting drunk the day before?
  5. TeamsterGrrrl
    Surprised the railroads haven't picked up on Cummins power, given that their only choice in new locomotives is now GE.
  6. TeamsterGrrrl
    It's legal on about half the country to fire someone for simply being gay.
  7. TeamsterGrrrl
    Since when is hating people with different color skin, religion, or sexual orientation a "value"?
  8. TeamsterGrrrl
    Allowing a hundred billion dollars a year in damage to our roads to keep a million drivers underemployed is a damn expensive jobs program...
  9. TeamsterGrrrl
    You good ol' boys might want to check Human Rights Campaign's list of LBGT friendly corporations and note the lack of trucking firms on the list, with the exception of UPS. Is it any wonder the trucking industry has a driver shortage, while UPS gets to pick from the cream of the crop? If you run a business and shut out 20% of potential employees and customers because they're gay or allies, 30% because of the color of their skin, and a few more because you push your religion on them or whatever, is it any wonder that you're short of customers and employees?
  10. TeamsterGrrrl
    Ford has embraced the rainbow, and they're making healthy profits.
  11. TeamsterGrrrl
    Your MH Mack shows that a few truckers know what the hell they're doing! Unfortunately, you're far outnumbered by all the wannabe cowboys running just ahead of the repo man in their long nose chromed conventionals...
  12. TeamsterGrrrl
    Since when is a long hood KW or Pete with visibility obscured by fashion accessories safe and efficient?
  13. TeamsterGrrrl
    Maybe in the more backward regions of the south... There's good reasons besides their bigotry that Chickfulla ain't made it to Minnesota!
  14. TeamsterGrrrl
    Thank you for 'fessin' up that for many trucking is a lifestyle and not a business.
  15. TeamsterGrrrl
    I ate at a Chikfilla... Once. Slow service, the promised WiFi was MIA, and chicken was no better than McDonalds. And if I want to listen to religious propaganda, I'll tune my radio to that channel.
  16. TeamsterGrrrl
    It's interesting to compare 'Merican trucking with European, where truckers pay more of the real costs of roads. Because of that Euro truckers have had to become more efficient, and they survive because European railroads are stuck with inefficient track loading guages that limit their productivity while the truckers are allowed 10% or more higher weights than here. If trucking in America had to pay the real costs of their road use and compete against America's highly productive railroads without subsidy, trucking would shrink to short hauls and sleeper cabs would become extinct.
  17. TeamsterGrrrl
    Yup, the railroads were commonly given every other section for miles either side of the track. But the land sold for a pittance because the railroads were competing with free land granted by the Homestead Act, and much of the land west of the Missouri River was worthless for farming anyhow. The real benefit to the railroads was the monopoly they had on transportation, even if they didn't get a cent for the land. Many of the railroads mismanaged and overbuilt and ended up bankrupt despite this subsidy. Almost every railroad in the midwest went bankrupt and wiped out those subsidies, except for the GN which didn't get subsidies...
  18. TeamsterGrrrl
    DMM, that century ago subsidy is now worthless, and the Great Northern that runs through our state was built without subsidies.
  19. TeamsterGrrrl
    Underdog, you're proposing that we subsidize the employment of a couple million truck drivers via subsidizing their workplace rather than being upfront and just giving them welfare. I look at it differently- Why should we waste the talents of a couple million citizens just steering trucks up and down the highways?
  20. TeamsterGrrrl
    And back to our original topic... Those double 33s are oddballs that don't fit intermodal well(s), may as well allow double 40s and be done with it. For the truckload carriers, their 53 footers are obsolete with or without another axle, they need to push for LCVs and teach their steering wheel holders how to hook 'em up.
  21. TeamsterGrrrl
    Trucks should pay their own way like other modes do instead of freeloading on taxpayer subsidies. Per BNSF's annual report, they're turning a profit on a revenue of 3 cents a ton mile, less than the costs of providing roads for the trucks. Underpriced road use is just the beginning of Walmart's freeloading, they get around a fifth of all food assistance funding and pay such low wages that many of their employees are forced to rely on subsidies like EIC, etc.. If Walmart had to pay the real cost of the highways they use, every Walmart would have a rail siding!
  22. TeamsterGrrrl
    Yup, I know all about FET, HUT, what it costs to license an 80k pound truck, and the five figure numbers sound impressive... Until you figure in the fact that tractor trailer rigs have 20 times the weight of a car and often cover over 10 times the miles! Back to that nickel a ton-mile true cost of providing highways... If you're not paying that, you're freeloading on the highways!
  23. TeamsterGrrrl
    Wouldn't save a cent, as there's a shortage of skilled construction workers so wages and costs wouldn't drop any.
  24. TeamsterGrrrl
    Maybe you need to pay more to get good roads... Your loaded Titan tanker weights as much as over 20 cars!
  25. TeamsterGrrrl
    If the legislature is going to give out, for example, 10% increases in allowable weight, the increases should apply to all trucks regardless of cargo. As for subsidizing particular industries, that's bad policy too. Funding for road building and maintenance has been inadequate for years, and siphoning off the state match for fed transit funding won't make much difference, so I'll kill that failed argument before you try it. Plain and simple, we have been lying to ourselves about the real cost of infrastructure for decades and become a 3rd world country because of it.

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