Some truckers oppose letting Mexican trucks on U.S. roads

A crisis brings out thinkers and non thinkers alike. You must work for FMCS. There is no doubt there doing a heap of thinking. There report had an answer for every concern submitted by everyone, yet everyone but them was just wrong. I'm glad our Senate over ruled funding the pilot program.

I guess that makes the majority of the Senate dummies just like you think I am.

Thanks for your valued opinion, keep on thinking, maybe one day you will actually make a contribution rather then making piffy statements.

Yet I do respect your boldness, heck maybe I'm a dummy after all only time will tell.

 

Its sad that the president is allowing this. He dont give a fart about the american families. I will speak my mind but i doubt if anyone will listen. But what we need is another truckers strike. Like back in the 70's. Cause that is the only way to get the government officals to listen to the american truckers. And i dont mean one or 2 I mean all trucks and companies to get our point across. Yall think trucking is bad now just wait. I have been doing this for 24 years. I really wonder how bad its going to get before we stand up and say enough is enough and take our rights back..

WE ARE THE AMERICAN TRUCKERS AND WE ARE #### PROUD OF OUR MOTO.

 

I'll stand with you if it ever comes to an all out protest/strike and I'm sure others would too.

 

So my question is what would it take for us truckers to stand together. And stop this bs?

 

unfortunatly that would entail a minor miricle, and thats just to get 100 truckers to agree on and do somehting about any situation

 

Washington voters rejecting 'ambitious' transportation plan, taxes

The Associated Press

11/7/2007

SEATTLE — Opponents called it “the biggest local tax increase anywhere in America, ever,” and voters in congested King, Snohomish and Pierce counties were rejecting the $18 billion plan for roads and transit.

Proposition 1 was trailing badly, with 56 percent opposed to 44 percent in favor, with about 48 percent of the vote counted early Wednesday. It had only 43 percent support in Snohomish and Pierce counties and not much better in King.

The plan was the most ambitious and expensive transportation package ever placed on a Washington ballot.

Supporters held out hope that a final influx of votes from liberal King County could pull it out of the fire in coming days, but opponents declared victory.

“It’s over,” said a jubilant Mark Baerwaldt, spokesman for the opponents, predicting that later votes would widen the gap even more. “It cost too much and did too little and took too long. People weren’t buying the proponents’ sales pitch.”

He said challengers will happily come to the table to help craft a “Plan B” fallback position.

Aaron Toso, disappointed spokesman for the “Roads & Transit” campaign, didn’t rule out a come-from-behind finish, but conceded, “It will be tough to turn the tide.”

The election was the first key test vote of a regional approach to help pay for ultra-expensive “mega-projects” such as freeways and bridges, and efforts to greatly expand light rail and transit.

Proposition 1 was described as a “shotgun wedding” between die-hard foes — transit advocates and those who want to build more miles of road. The plan had something for everyone — $7 billion for more than two dozen highway and bridge projects, including a new Lake Washington State Route 520 floating bridge, and $11 billion for expanding light rail and other transit in the region.

The proposition, which also presumed state and federal dollars as well as tolls and other user fees, included two sizable tax increases. It included a sales tax hike of six cents per $10 purchase, costing the average household an estimated $150 a year, and an increase in car-tab tax by $80 per $10,000 of vehicle value.

The vote was on the ballot in most heavily populated areas of the three big counties. The unified measure had to pass in both the transit district and the road district — the boundaries don’t fully match up.

Gov. Chris Gregoire and key transportation leaders in the Legislature strongly endorsed Proposition 1, saying Olympia can no longer afford to fully finance mega-projects. They’re also struggling to figure out how to finance a replacement for the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct along the Seattle waterfront and a new Columbia River crossing at Vancouver.

Foes, including King County Executive Ron Sims, some environmentalists and Eastside road advocates, didn’t like the mix of projects.

Sims and the Sierra Club and others complained that expanding the road network wouldn’t help congestion and would add to greenhouse emissions. Road advocates took the opposite tack, saying the package was too transit-rich and that light rail would never be a real answer to traffic woes.

“Prop 1 contains the biggest local tax increase anywhere in America, ever,” foes said on their Web site. “The tax bite is staggering.”

The proposal called for building 186 miles of road, including a $1 billion down payment for a new 520 bridge, $900 million for widening of Interstate 405 between Bellevue and Renton, extending Highway 167 from Tacoma to Puyallup and expanding the highway capacity in south King County; 50 new miles of light rail; 12,000 new park & ride slots; and expanding commuter rail and regional bus service.

Sound Transit is building 16 miles of light rail between downtown Seattle and the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The proposal was to extend east across Lake Washington, south to Tacoma and northward to beyond Lynnwood.

The road portion was divided to provide $4 billion for King and roughly $1.5 billion apiece for Snohomish and Pierce counties. Most of the transit spending, $10 billion, was earmarked for light rail.

The total, $18 billion, is the cost in 2006 dollars. Adding inflation, financing and operations could boost that to $47 billion over the next half-century. Foes said the true number could be closer to $160 billion, assuming that existing Sound Transit taxes extend at least through 2057.

 

...but repealing NAFTA altogether is evidently out-of-the-question...

 

no you dont have to take the CDL in english

 

you cant get 10 truck driver to agree on anything i only know of 5 that could agree.and im 1 of the 5

 

i'll stand up with y'll i know 4 others that will