[NormsRevenge]

can of worms

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If they ever close this loophole, then just wait for the legions of ‘under documented’ Mexican truckdrivers to ram right through it!

[tflabo]

And the Feds are considering letting Mexican truck drivers have free access to USA highways? Insanity.....

[tflabo]

The driver who crashed a tanker loaded with gasoline and brought down a heavily trafficked highway overpass was given a commercial trucker's license despite a history of criminal convictions, including drug and burglary arrests. James Mosqueda, 51,

Rhymes with Al Queda

[tubebender]

Bay Bridge truck fire update...

[Cicero]

I’m divided on this. He appears to have been clean of drugs, and the crimes were committed quite a long time ago.

Presumably they have the seven year waiting period after a drug conviction in order to confirm that the driver is unlikely to go back onto drugs while driving. Evidently he didn’t.

[mylife]

"It's reprehensible," said Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, who chairs both the Assembly Transportation Committee and the Joint Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security. "Someone with that record has no business driving hazardous materials on our highways."

Hey Pedro. Everyone that can drive is transporting the same hazardous material

[California74]

That guy has an unfortunate name - Mosqueda.

Everytime I look at it I think of these words:
MOSQUE
Al QAEDA

[Rockpile]

He cautioned that a scarcity of steel resulting from a building boom, in China and India could slow reconstruction. "We can't get steel like we used to," Weiss said.

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This in the nation that built over 10,000 ships; 100,000+ armored vehicles and 300,000+ aircraft in four years in the early 1940s.

"Free Trade" and "Globalism"----it's a beautiful thing.

[RoseofTexas]

IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!!...someone had to say it :)

[thackney]

hazmat ping

[muleskinner]

Howlin’s fault

[Revolting cat!]

Prolly a Communist or Rudy Giuliani voter too!

[Anti-Bubba182]

".."We can't get steel like we used to," Weiss said..."

Damn! Didn't we used to make that in the United States?

[GovernmentShrinker]

I don’t understand why this sort of truck (i.e. designed to carry thousands of gallons of hazardous material) isn’t required by law to be equipped with a mechanism that prevents it from exceeding 55 or 60 mph. Most accidents involving fuel tanker trucks seem to happen at high speeds on highways. This guy is said to have been “speeding” in a 50 mph zone — with a built-in speed limiter, he wouldn’t have been able to speed by very much over the 50 mph limit.

[Minutemen]

Mosque/ Queda? hmmmmmmmm

[bannie]

"It's reprehensible," said Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, who chairs both the Assembly Transportation Committee and the Joint Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security. "Someone with that record has no business driving hazardous materials on our highways."

Hypocrite.

[Former Dodger]

Will the DUmmie conspiracy freaks and Rosie O start claiming that "...a fire alone couldn't have destroyed that roadway...it must have been explosive devices planted there to make it collapse...just like on 9/11!"?

[kittycatonline.com]

There is also nothing that prevents a convicted felon who has served his sentence from getting his commercial truck driver's license in California - so long as he has a clear driving record, CHP Chief Steve Vaughn said.

So is he insinuating that convicted felons, who presumably have served their sentences, should not be allowed to operate a truck?

It's time the nanny state either enacts the immedate death penalty for all felons, or accept the fact that these folks who are released from jail will need to do something to make a living. Maybe not a truck loaded with gasoline, but trucking sounds like a pretty good job for somebody who just got out of the clink and needs to reestablish a life of some sort. It ain't like they haven't already "been away from home" for a while already, right? Might as well hit the open road (and not the freeway overpass).

[NonValueAdded]

The TSA and FBI pooches are walking funny today.