Where is everyone #5

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by DDlighttruck, Aug 27, 2017.

  1. shooter19802003

    shooter19802003 Road Train Member

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    I'm not so sure. I think so many companies will be hard up for workers if they do. Now that so many can work from home....good luck getting them back to the office. Especially now that the govt is paying good money to stay home.....they will just tell their employers to go fly a kite. It is already hard enough to get employees, let alone good ones.
     
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  3. Lysdexis

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    Ergo what I do on my personal time shouldn't effect my job but reefer makes white women want to lay with black men so we gots to make it illegal.

    THC the active compound in Marijuana that gives you the high stays in your system for 14 days on average. More for heavy users and longer still for users with higher body fat as it is stored in your body fat.

    I'm still trying to process how an aluminum line rusted... I guess it's just normal corrosion but it was rust brown.

    Yeah he said he didn't have one and freightliner didn't show one so I'm not sure if that just means it's discontinued or like you said on backorder. If I can get one made with the right fittings on each end I don't particularly care where the pressure port is at honestly. I just want to be able to charge my ac system.

    Thanks. One thing at a time and it'll get where I want it. Just not enough hours in the day it seems when I want to get stuff done but when it's work time the day drags by.
     
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  4. Lysdexis

    Lysdexis Road Train Member

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    Well with the current leadership the handouts aren't going to stop any time soon. Cut the cord on welfare. If you can work and don't you can starve for all I care.
     
  5. shooter19802003

    shooter19802003 Road Train Member

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    Why is it that the fuel price here at the J is $3.67, but literally across the street at the gas station diesel is $3.02?
     
  6. Lysdexis

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    Convenience for trucks.

    Most company's use a fuel card and on average only end up paying about .50 less than the pump price.
     
  7. shooter19802003

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    I agree. However, it isn't politically feasible. Politics is now a life long career and folks do whatever it takes to stay in power. Folks don't vote against Santa Claus! Take for instance the new push for electric vehicles. Those vehicles don't pay road use tax. So now they want to tack on a 25cents per mile tax on trucks. Why? Because it isn't very likely that a guy buying a new vehicle is going to want to foot the bill for it. It goes against the govt plan. So they will try to soak us for it. Because that's how socialism works. Tax the folks making money until you take away all the incentive to make money. A dependant people are a compliant people. Easier to deal with that way.
     
  8. shooter19802003

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    I wish my discount was 50 cents a gallon!
     
  9. AModelCat

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    Gotta cut the handouts and tell 'em they can work or starve.
     
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    They'll find a way to tax electric cars. The only thing the government is good at is screwing over the working folk.
     
  11. Lysdexis

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    I forsee electric cars getting a log book of sorts program being put in place through regulations. The car will email you a report of the miles you drove and in what state you drove them in.

    You'll be required to present that report to the dmv when you renew your tags. You'll have to pay the use taxes then or you can't renew your plates.

    Or

    You'll be required to set up an account with the state and submit a report every 3 months of the miles you've driven and then they'll access fees to you that way and if not current when it's time to renew plates they'll charge you then or no plates if you don't pay up.


    I see the former being more likely scenario for how they'll handle the lack of fuel taxes. They'll base it off the price of fuel at the average mpg of similar gas cars in that class and get their cut one way or another.
     
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