Posted on 12/02/2022 11:58:41 AM PST by llevrok
“U.S. Department of Transportation said that the devices will allow law enforcement to identify high-risk drivers”
Start by looking at those rolling scrap heaps that pass for trucks in Mexico that are allowed on our roads.
Getting? It's been patently insane for a long time. Governments do not have 'rights'. They have powers. Yes, they apparently have the 'power' to do pretty much anything they want because they have demonstrated time and time again over the years that they will kill anyone who objects or otherwise gets in their way. They'll kill you and your whole family and won't lose a minute's sleep over it. They'll shoot your wife in the head while she's holding an infant and a future AG will work pro-bono for the shooter/assasin. None of this is hyperbole. It's just history.
Ok. I hate this administration.
Setting up to prevent what the truckers did in Canada.
That dip-stick leader up there would be proud.
Once they do, then they can tax the trucks by the miles travelled, independent of any fuel taxes.
And if you do, then you just might need to hire more IRS agents to do the tax calculations. Maybe 87,000 more...
And it is one small step from Commercial Trucks to Big Auto installing the same in all vehicles.
“Getting a card requires fingerprinting, physicals and background checks.”
All of these are already required to be hired by a company. Good companies do very detailed background checks. If you ever failed a drug test, no job.
They’ve really cracked down on the physicals I hear. Don’t know if it’s true. I remember walking into the doctors office and ten minutes later having a paper showing a clean bill of health.
Obama started this crap when his Transportation guy rewrote the Hours of Service regulations. They talked to every pitty party that wanted to have a say.
The people they didn’t talk to were trucking companies, drivers and sleep experts.
I started driving in the cowboy days.
The first thing you learned was how to run two logs so you were never out of hours. And companies were looking for drivers who could run 800-1000 miles a day.
No way in hell would I suggest anyone get into trucking now.
It is already a multi thousand buck fine if a big rig driver is caught talking on his cell phone. They always go for the truckers first when they want to tighten the screws.
We should put tracking devices on Wray and Garland.
Would be interested to see where they go.
Maybe Soros’ pad in NY?
5.56mm
“OnStar” in a bigger scale. If they can unlock your car, they can shut it off as well.
There are certain things that need to be known about truckers & certain things that are none of anybody else’s business as long as it does not break the law or affect public safety. We need the trucking industry so let’s not be about harassing them. If you want to harass someone, do it with government officials who aren’t doing their job. Need names?
Lets put tracking devices on FEDs.
Like ELD’s ????
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Nowhere in this amendment is there an exception for trucking companies.
It's being done with home and business thermostats already in the name of saving energy and the earth (like in Cali).
“The Feds believe they have the right to do anything they want.”
Who is going to stop them?
We don’t need no stinking 4th Amendment.
😂. NVenergy keeps trying to get folks to take them for free. Most folks are like 🖕.
First they came for the truckers....
Car drivers will be next!
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