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American Truckers Just Got BAD News From Obama… This Is a Total Disgrace
http://conservativetribune.com/truckers-bad-news-obama/ ^ | 8/20/16 | Staff

Posted on 08/20/2016 4:13:34 PM PDT by V K Lee

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To: WENDLE
Most big cities only have a two day supply of food. If enough truckers went on strike the impact would be felt quickly. A strike would be great. Obama wouldn't know what to do.
41 posted on 08/20/2016 4:50:24 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: proud American in Canada

I read on here somewhere few years back, the reasons trucks to not take part in shut downs, if the rig is there they cannot afford it and if Company owned they will lose their jobs.?? Have no idea if true, but does make sense.


42 posted on 08/20/2016 4:50:43 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: V K Lee

Climate change is a scam intended to reduce America (and other leading industrialized nations) to third world status.

Maybe our truckers will be the salvation for us all against this madness if they decide to do a rolling protest.


43 posted on 08/20/2016 4:58:02 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: V K Lee

it’s a tax which is not OFFICIALLY a tax.

“If you like your doctor, you can keep him”


44 posted on 08/20/2016 4:58:08 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: V K Lee

It would cost $$, but wouldn’t it be fun if only a few large trucking companies routed all of the 95 truck traffic through the center of DC?


45 posted on 08/20/2016 4:59:31 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Vaquero

Well, that is something I honestly expect to happen.


46 posted on 08/20/2016 5:00:08 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: V K Lee

Insult to injury- “admit your guilt, pay the fine and we’ll leave you alone...for now”


47 posted on 08/20/2016 5:00:14 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: V K Lee

President Trump will take care of business (i.e., end the “Climate Change scam the Ophonybama administration insists on foisting on America!), and put the EPA back into its closet.


48 posted on 08/20/2016 5:02:18 PM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: red-dawg

A...............................MEN!!!!


49 posted on 08/20/2016 5:03:38 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: V K Lee

Since I was a truck driver for 5 years, I hated the Mexicans that thought they could shut us down...

Their trucks are very unsafe, and when we would check into a ‘chicken coop’ we would hear stories that half of them didn’t have CDLs and some of the trucks didn’t even have insurance on them, and they were dirty and the drivers were worse...

US Trucking is the safest there is, we have a lot of laws to abide by and the companies that we drive for do obey the laws and so do the independent owners, and IOs hated Mexican drivers worse than we Company drivers did...


50 posted on 08/20/2016 5:03:41 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum

my Freightliner has been in the shop 6 times in the last 3 months over the DEF piss burner. The whole DEF is a scam.


51 posted on 08/20/2016 5:03:57 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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To: Taxman

He has to win it first.


52 posted on 08/20/2016 5:08:38 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: digger48; V K Lee
digger48 :" Every stinkin’ time the EPA hits diesel engines, the cost of that machine goes up 10-20% with no increase in production or fuel savings.
The owners can’t just charge more for doing the same amount work."

The EPA , making us more like Venezuela each day
Slowly choking off the life blood that makes America great
Until manufacturers can no longer afford to get their product to market
and create instant lay-offs to create more "people in need"(DemoRats)
for "freebies" and government dependance !.


53 posted on 08/20/2016 5:16:36 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: NativeSon

Piss off the Truckers ,Barry.
Hillary, what’s Your Pleasure?


54 posted on 08/20/2016 5:22:53 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

My Fishing buddy recently retired bought a new Diesel ... it was in the shop more than not.. DEF problems, he did the Lemon thing, got another same problems.

He is driving a Gas Hemi now


55 posted on 08/20/2016 5:24:11 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Do the math

STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE TRUCKERS!! There is no measurable global warming! None ZERO IT IS A LIE!!


56 posted on 08/20/2016 5:32:00 PM PDT by WENDLE (hillary took bribes through bill and foundation!!MILLIONS!!!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Oh, just like the elite ruling class in any turd-world dictatorship or communist hell-hole; he will get his good stuff. The rest of us are screwed though.


57 posted on 08/20/2016 5:35:06 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Vermont Lt

The problem with citizen journalists is they cannot write for shit.

Man, PREACH IT! Drives me crazy.


58 posted on 08/20/2016 5:35:49 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum
One of our ambulances was coming back from a call and the message center flashed up a message (pull over?) and the engine shut down immediately. No way it would start again until the dealer got done.

Thank God there was not a critical patient in the back.

I keep asking the powers that be why we are not buying used trucks and refurbing them instead of new.

Ford seems to get their shorts in a wad every few years regarding emergency vehicles and make a bunch of rash decisions.

Wonder who will back down this time? Several years (2010?)the engine manufacturers all said they were pulling out of the emergency market because the EPA demanded they re-certify the entire vehicle because the frame was 1/4” longer or whatever than what it was certified for. It is rare to see 2 identical fire trucks unless it is for a big city.

59 posted on 08/20/2016 5:41:01 PM PDT by Clay Moore (JRandomFreeper, SWAMPSNIPER RIP)
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To: HarleyLady27
Their trucks are very unsafe, and when we would check into a ‘chicken coop’ we would hear stories that half of them didn’t have CDLs and some of the trucks didn’t even have insurance on them, and they were dirty and the drivers were worse...

It's now gotten worse. Nearly every Mexican truck driver I pass is swerving and driving 10 mph under the speed limit as he's texting with both hands on the interstate.

60 posted on 08/20/2016 5:44:05 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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