It’s not so bad, you can still get to gourmet dogs at loves for $3.33.

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Lennythedriver, Mar 12, 2022.

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    I'm just catching up now, SHEESH, tough crowd. I haven't bought hotdogs in a while, and simply forgot, but my point was the odd number of hotdogs per bun count, so up yers,,,with hotdogs, of course.
     
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  3. Jiminy Cricket

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    Check it out:
    Sign the Petition Seems like we're overdue for an overhaul in electoral leadership standards. Might help - getting "normal" people into Office? We've never actually tried just scientifically removing the predatory / pathological ones.. it's historically always been bloody.:whax:
     
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    You don't drive semi, do you? I'm asking because there's a Fundamental Difference between shopping at "convenience store" and dealing with a truck stop.
    I'll give you a hint:

    Captive Consumers.
     
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    Benefits don't pay the bills. You have to make a decent hourly or cpm base rate, before benefits mean anything. Icing is just that. It's not supposed to take the place of the cake & will make you sick if you try living off it.
     
  6. Moosetek13

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    Well the benefit of health care insurance only assumes that you will be using a doctor very often and/or for very expensive things.
    Often enough and expensive enough that after you get done paying the co-pays and deductibles that the insurance is actually worth anything to you.

    At 66 years of age I go to a doctor twice a year.
    One is for the DOT physical, which my company pays for.
    The other is to a local doctor to renew my BP med once a year.

    I pay a lot each week for mandated insurance, then pay for the doctor visit as well because I have that deductible.
    It is mostly out of pocket on both ends for me.

    And if I did come down with something very serious, serious enough to need expensive treatment and probably stop working as a result, my insurance would be cancelled when I could not afford to pay for it.

    And, if I did come down with something that serious, I doubt I would try to get that expensive treatment to keep me alive for another year.
    Because that only drives up the cost for everyone else, and of what real use is one more year?
     
  7. Lennythedriver

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    Yeah I pay $70 a week, for my health insurance. What a joke. That equates to basically a new car payment every month. The deductible is $3500 a year. Caps out at 7000. So for example if I needed open heart surgery which cost like $80,000 I would have to pay the first 7000. Basically it’s set up to really prevent anyone from really using it unless you get something catastrophic and as you mentioned you’re going to be out of insurance within a few months if you come down with something catastrophic anyhow. It’s a rigged system. Always has been.
    Good for basically nothing honestly. Now for a regular doctor visit, I do have a reasonable co-pay and get a reasonable co-pay for medication’s. But outside of that? I’ll be forking out the first $7000 for anything and everything I need. Seems ridiculous to pay $300 a month for that.
     
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