It's unbelievable what the feds found in Texas exp.

I'm reading the news wire online and the feds learned that the Fertilizer plant that exploded in Texas only had insurance for $1,000,000 one million dollars! A dangerous material of ammonia used in fertilizer and all they were required was 1 million? Some Attorneys are talking about a 100 million damage cost. Overview and safety enforcement of the plant was minimal. Here is a dangerous plant, that killed 14 people and injured over 300 and the OSHA and the Feds are too busy patrolling us in the Transportation Business, stopping us without us doing anything illegal,searching our small business as O/P without probable cause, abusing their power and labeling us as outlaws, dangerous, having a DOT patrolling us 24-7-365 and making us stop at weight stations to check on us! Whats the difference here? that the Fertilizer plant in West Texas is owned by Rich individuals (nothing against the rich or millioners, we need them) that have influence and probably bought the regulators of a dangerous fertilizer plant just feets of an apartment complex! The poor individual that has no money and invest on a tractor be make something of his life is monitored 24-7-365 and are targeted for taxes, fees, high tolls, retrofiting new engines with bogus clean air acts by people that never had a job, only theorizing all day in a classroom! So for those of you in here, yes joseph1135, Trucking is not the most dangerous industry out there! We are targeted because we are willing to do things the right way and play by the rules! Just like Pilot and Flying J that rip off the trucking companies of rebates so again, insted of focusing in big rigs feds, focused on Dangerous Chemicals companies that are buying inspectors in return for cheap insurance a no enforcement and we the Owner Operators have to pay $7,000 for school, have insurance as much as $2,000,000 million unbrella coverage for one unit and go through hours of training for certain CDL endorsement but still, some people even in this forum say that we are the mos dangerous industry in America! Figure that one out!

 

Go to yahoo and type, texas fertilizer plant with only 1 million in insurance. I dint wanted to promote yahoo in truckers forum. I dont know yet how to share the link in here.