Posted on 12/25/2017 11:12:44 AM PST by qwerty1234
Maine is having trouble finding enough snowplow drivers, another sign of the way low unemployment is taxing states.
The state Department of Transportation has about 50 openings among about 700 positions and expects 30 snow storms in the season that stretches from mid-November to mid-April. Exacerbating the problem: some cities like Portland hire their own drivers and pay more, and private sector demand for experienced drivers is also high.
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more illegals, to do the work Americans won’t do?
I don’t know the pay scales, but decades ago, was acquainted with people who worked at a state highway admin. depot. They were state employees, and adjusted for inflation, were getting paid the equivalent of $30 per hour in today’s money. And they were hourly, and got time and a half overtime for driving snowplows overnight.
If they are still getting paid so well, I’m stunned that we can’t find enough Americans to do certain jobs.
Maybe there are issues, because to drive a truck, you need a truck driver’s license in most states? And maybe it’s hard to get such a license?
The last thing I want is a Muslim driving a snow plow given their tendency these days to use vehicles as mass murder instruments.
That’s what happens with welfare. Way too many people on welfare, it should only be for true hard-luck cases.
No it means he may have support of blue collar workers.
Merry Christmas and thanks for the correction. One of my old friends told me that as a school kid, they helped pick potato crops in autumn. Now that’s a work ethic! Wonder who harvests them now?
BS.. that’s union slavery at work.
Somalis, Oh, And here I sit thinking about Maine's Mexican problem
“Wonder who harvests them now?”
That’s a machine harvest job now with the manual work mostly in processing and sorting after machine vision takes the first pass.
Does Maine not have any illegals who will do jobs Americans won’t?
Growing up, parents had a nice cottage in Maine on a lake near Sebago. Nice state...and my summer friends were natives. They were poor...but had great work ethics.
Like saying a demoncrat who is native to the 8th circle of hell instead of the 9th...
Like saying a demoncrat who is native to the 8th circle of hell instead of the 9th...
Ah, makes sense. Fewer bad backs later on!
The only Mexican problem we have is not enough Taco Bells.
(that and “press one for English”)
>>>I grew up on Long Island, NY and they did NOT do a good job plowing the roads when I was a kid<<<
You just reminded me of something. We lived on Long Island from 1953 to 1960. My Dad and his Brother owned an Esso Station in Elmont.
They bought a War Surplus Jeep and put a Snow Plow on it. My Father would go around and move the Snow that the City Snowplows left piled in front of his Customers Driveways so they could get onto the Street and go to Work.
How many Somalis and other recent immigrants are being paid by the federal government to sit around and do nothing?
I lived in Maine for almost six years. Lots of lilly white Mainers sitting around doing nothing. LOTS.
The plowing was outstanding today.
Probably the triple time
Maine knows how to handle snow, where the lower forty seven has not an idea.
Snow plowing is a CDL driving skill. Not just anybody can do it.
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