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Old 10.14.2007
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When freight manager Jeffrey Tucker heard the state planned to turn Interstate 80 into a toll road, he wondered, "What next?"
More change is battering the trucking industry than at any other time in the 46-year history of the Tucker Co., a Cherry Hill logistics firm founded by his grandfather.
The proposals - including adding tolls to I-80 and turning the Pennsylvania Turnpike over to private operators - would dramatically alter the two main cross-state routes, truckers and transportation executives say. Meanwhile, the industry faces troubles on several fronts:
Another change in the hours drivers can legally work, arising from efforts to reduce the 5,000 fatalities a year from truck-related accidents, is being battled out in the courts, and the outcome could force higher costs and complex changes.
Trucking companies wrestle with driver turnover rates of more than 100 percent per year and wonder if they will be able to meet the cargo-growth demands in coming decades.
Tightening environmental rules are reducing fuel efficiency and boosting maintenance and new-truck costs.
The nation's highways and bridges are, as one trucking company chief executive officer put it, "in scary, scary shape." They are wearing out and ill-equipped to handle the anticipated doubling of cargo shipments over the next 20 years. The bridge collapse in Minneapolis has intensified concerns about aging roads and bridges. Businesses ponder the impact on their operations if a collapse happened here.
All this is causing complex ripples of problems, renegotiated contracts and schedules.
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Not to worry: The NASCO Supercorridor from Mexico will supersede the old Interstate system, and there will be plenty of Mexican drivers to fill the 100% annual turnover.
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There's enough of em' driving rock trucks in DFW to fill the driver shortage now. Police actually took one out of service Thursday. He was illegal. Just made him replace a few tires and brake problems and he was back in business. Unbelievable!
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There's enough of em' driving rock trucks in DFW to fill the driver shortage now. Police actually took one out of service Thursday. He was illegal. Just made him replace a few tires and brake problems and he was back in business. Unbelievable!
Was the driver an illegal alien? What makes you think he was? Did you personally witness this? If it was you with bad tires and brake problems wouldn't you expect to be allowed to correct the problems and be on YOUR way? Let's at least be fair here...
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Not to worry: The NASCO Supercorridor from Mexico will supersede the old Interstate system, and there will be plenty of Mexican drivers to fill the 100% annual turnover.
Will this "supercorridor" supersede the entire interstate system coast to coast, or only the part in your imagination?
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Well Rexbevans I was only going on what was reported on a local TV news slot. We have had a huge problem for some years now with ILLEGAL ALIENS driving everything from cars, pickups to bobtail landscape and lately 18 wheel gravel trucks, lowboys, 53' vans and anything else that someone is willing to put them in to pad the owners pockets! The local PBS station did a 30 minute show on the problem after one of them killed a group in an SUV on hwy 114 NW of Dallas. Station KERA Check it out hardhead. And yes . if I was stopped I would be able to make repairs and be on my way. Only I did not use false paperwork to obtain a CDL. Missouri USA birth certificate. US passport. US Army Contractor ID. Texas USA drivers license issued originally in 1972. But the reporter stated that this man was not a legal immigrant. Know what that makes him? ILLEGAL LAWBREAKING ALIEN! If he had been pulled over in Irving, Farmers Branch, and now Carolton they would have done the right thing and deported his LAWBREAKING ILLEGAL BUTT! But the area he was stopped in turns a blind eye to this sort of CRIME. Now make a mistake on your checking account and accidentally write say WAL-MART a $5.00 hot check and these same localities will have DA call and threaten you if you don't get over there and clear it up muey pronto. Just one of many reasons so many people across the country and some posting here are upset with the flood of LAWBREAKING ILLEGAL ALIENS. Now you savy?
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Yes, it does seem like you were jumping to conclusions, Duker. You left out some info in the first post. Bevans is right to call you on that.

But you are absolutely right about the double-standard when it comes to illegals. Deport their ##### and make them reenter the US legally. Just because they're willing to do the dirty jobs and make the big-money boys happy, they shouldn't get special treatment. That's a common opinion among the practical working class. Now why can't something be done? For the same reason the common opinion among the practical working class can't get US forces out of Chev-Raq-- The elites don't want that to happen.

The powers-that-be want illegals here, so they're gonna stay. It matters not what we think or want. Sure, sometimes a group of illegals will get busted back to Mexico, but this is all for show. Hell, there are even water tanks in the Arizona desert for illegals to use. When a politico says he wants to stop illegals from entering the US, it's all just lip-service.
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