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To: cope85
Teamsters Union spokesman Galen Munroe told WND the plan "is yet another example of corporations exploiting a visa program to replace highly trained, hard-working Americans with cheap labor from overseas."

I'm not entirely sure that the term "highly trained" and "truck driver" belong in the same sentence.

But ignoring that, I'd rather have an English speaking Indian driving a US truck, duly inspected, than a Spanish speaking Mexican driving a Mexican truck on US roads.

11 posted on 07/21/2006 3:47:20 PM PDT by surely_you_jest
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To: surely_you_jest

Well, truck driver and highly trained aren't in the same sentence here, are they? Okay, same paragraph, then. Or same article. I just don't think that truck drivers would qualify as "highly trained".


15 posted on 07/21/2006 3:49:54 PM PDT by surely_you_jest
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I'm not entirely sure that the term "highly trained" and "truck driver" belong in the same sentence.

Take an eighteen wheeler through the University of Texas campus at 5 pm, back up to the loading dock at Jester Dorm, then get back to me.

62 posted on 07/21/2006 7:11:50 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
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My boyfriend has driven 29 years without an accident, can you say the same? He hauls oil thats 350 degrees with just a flimsy cab between him and it. He has driven log truck on roads most people wouldn't walk on. He does endless paperwork and works 16 hour days. Tell me how you are better than him? He has taught driving at a college. What college classes do you teach? Snobbery is so left wing.


64 posted on 07/21/2006 8:05:01 PM PDT by BruceysMom (I'm hot & not in a good way: menopause ain't for sissies)
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