NY Times article The Trouble with Trucking

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  1. tman78

    tman78 Medium Load Member

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    Yeah...there he is
    (another Trucker who doesn't give a #### about other Truckers).

    LOL...A lot us are laughing at you. Not to mention some of the other questions you post.

    Can you say 'Reading Comprehension?'

    (I haven't signed anything...lol)

    Lets see;
    • Sounds like you got a problem with 'the Law?' (buying plates for a Truck that isn't yours...hmmm, don't let the authorities find out about that? And make sure to sleep with one eye open.
    • Meanwhile i see that you were inquiring about getting on for some Union work too ...Hmmm...Why? Doesn't the Free Market work up in the NE? I can only imagine being trapped in that cesspool?
    If your a Rebel, and thrive in an environment where there are no 'LAWS' (total 'CHAOS' and 'Anarchy'),...Move to Venezuela (hell you can do what-ever you want down there if you pay-off the right ppl)

    Socialist Propaganda?
    ...Bhahahahaa! (that's funny).
     
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  3. nomikona

    nomikona Bobtail Member

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    Interesting.
     
  4. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    @Ruthless, before you respond, watch this video.
     
  5. tman78

    tman78 Medium Load Member

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    Ok buddy,...i get it now.

    You're saying 'don't worry about happens to the next guy, just don't let it happen to you.

    BTW, why did you get out of Carpentry?
     
  6. scottied67

    scottied67 Road Train Member

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    Still better than the alternative. When the MAN has had all the power the MAN has proven to be mercilessly corrupt. The MAN has been working for over a century since the Industrial Revolution to change the mindset of the proletariat workers to one of individualism over unionism.

    Unions peaked in the 1960's and have been on a steady decline since the advent of one television (mind control box) in each American household. Americans have been conditioned to run on the hamster wheel for the MAN. Living paycheck to paycheck, maybe with a few months worth of expenses put away, but most Americans couldn't survive 3 months without steady income. Exactly the way the MAN wants it.

    Co-conspirators with the MAN include Big Pharma whose business is not in curing your problem, but to sell you happy pills to mask your problem. Big News to make sure you get a steady diet of the political news you prefer so you can see the Big Advertising on the Big News which will have you spending your money the right way, voting the right way and thinking the right way like a proper little hamster.
     
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  7. mustang190

    mustang190 Road Train Member

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    Why the hell would anyone buy a truck through a company is beyond me.
     
  8. ZVar

    ZVar Road Train Member

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    Well, at least your mind is agile. It take a weird way of thinking to equate a lesson on personal responsibility to make it sound like a lesson on egotism.
     
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  9. tman78

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    All kinds of SCAMS and brainwashing being run on 'the working class.'

    Prison Industrial Complex (got the some friends involved in this one, on both sides of the fence)
    Military Industrial Complex (you already know about this one)
    Big Pharma and Politics

    Media- (propaganda wins. Who's brain-washing who)
    Education (brain-washing kids/adults through public funded schools making them jump hoops, placing hugh debt on their shoulder)
    Banking (international banks that crush currencies)
    Politics (###### who work for lobbyist and Big Corps)
    Religion (institutions that dumb people down by placating them with Disney world fantasies of the after-life)

    etc.

    A lot of pot-holes on the sidewalk of 21st century life!
     
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  10. 06driver

    06driver Road Train Member

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    I can not tell another man what his value is, nor he mine.

    I have never waited for some socialist, communist, anti-individual movement to choose where and how I work.

    Of you do not have the fortitude to stand alone, the universe has no use for you.
     
  11. brsims

    brsims Road Train Member

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    Sure! Cause EVERYBODY has the money to just pick up and leave their home and move across the country and see tart completely over, right?

    Moving costs money! Whether you rent or buy, you need a significant amount of up front cash. Plus the costs of moving. Plus the difficulty of establishing yourself in a completely new area where you may not know anybody and have zero support network in place.

    My point is, moving isn't easy OR an option for everybody. Especially if you live in an economically depressed area where there are no options to build the necessary cash reserves to move out.
     
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