[Domandred]

Been trying to post this since Tuesday, but today is my first stop since that's had reliable internet.

News of interest in the trucking world.

[maine-iac7]

a big safety issue would be to get the government out of ‘slush funding’ trucking companies driving schools at $5,000 per ‘student.” The companies are grabbing the free money and funneling people with little to no aptitude for driving - and put them out on the road with a bare minimum of training. (And there are plenty from places like Somalia, who drive with their sandals (illegal in itself, turbans and prayer rugs that they whip out on the tarmac at refueling stops. AND have constant contact with people in the 2-3 cities known to have terrorists cells. But we’ll molest old ladies and babies at the airports and ignore that there are people now in control of big rig across the country...with close up and personal access to oil refineries, dams, nuclear plants etc. Remember, this administration is ‘wait until it happens’ oriented.)The vast majority of these push-through students do not belong behind a wheel of a big-rig.

There is no excuse for the gov’t subsidizing driving schools when tens of thousands of qualified, experienced drivers have been put out work in the past 3 years.

I know of one of the bigger companies that, 3 years ago, had a decades old excellent safety record. Now, pushing these dangerous drivers out on the roads, accidents have multiplied and the company has lost it’s good safety record and is the laughing stock of the industry.

Anything the government gets it’s claws into, it destroys.

HIRE QUALIFIED, EXPERIENCED DRIVERS.

[opentalk]

The bill also lays out $750 million to fund state infrastructure banks.

sounds like another slush fund for cronyism

[BobL]

Looks like a sell-out to Governors Perry and Daniels - TOLL ROADS GALORE!!!

[JRios1968]

Another provision would establish a national highway bridge and tunnel inventory and upgrade inspection standards.

Uh, this already exists...National Bridge Inspection Standards