Just one result of the meat in the seat hiring practices in OTR trucking

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  1. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    The US Government maintains a monthly Beige Book regarding employment situation in the major Federal Districts.

    To wit Arkansas and Missouri employers have already decided on their own within the official Beige Book information to simply disregard Felons and bypass Drug Testing which is simply killing the ability to get workers to run a factory or whatever it is they need people for. SO there is a increasing momentum against actual drug tests and anyone who shows a past as a Felon. They get hired anyway. HOWEVER. These people are not paid the increase in wages, benefits and other wonderful things that most everyone else around the USA are getting.

    Trump has decided that Europeans will face a 25% tarriff when they try to sell their steel here in the USA and 10% against any european Aluminum in the USA tarriffs as well. These are happening really soon as tomorrow. Canada and Mexico are to face additional tarrifs against their products to be sold in the USA on Friday. We don't know how much percentage that will come out to but you can expect a very high percentage will be applied against them as well.

    Brazil is entering day 10 of a complete and total trucker strike. It has spread to include 20 of 46 operating rigs in one of their most major oil producing areas in the Ocean waters offshore. They have absolutely stopped exporting everything. Killing millions of chickens are ongoing because feed is not delivered. They are out of Soybeans as of tuesday. The autos are for export are instead rotting. And factories are beginning to shut down. There is about 120 factories. 107 so far has completely closed. Kerosene for jet fuel is kaput. Flights planned for Brazil is no longer going there because there is no more fuel to get back out so they cancel the flights period. There is beginning to be talk of involving the Brazil Military against both the striking truckers and oilmen who just joined them, and also against the current Government who managed to cut fuel about 10% in pricing ignoring the fact that truckers have suffered a near 60% increase in fuel costs in the last 9 months. SO the truckers are not doing anything. It is near total strikes. No food is getting to shops and stores. It is rotting in the trailers. No medicines or anything important is being moved. Nothing.

    While this is going on.

    Europe has begun to impose a protection against American Embargo/Banned vs Iran so that Europe intends to disregard America totally and continue to do business with Iran and by extension China. Google at this time has managed to essentially cut off 500 million Europeans from internet access in some ways major.

    Israeli is suffering a rain of Iranian made weapons by the hundreds as I write this. has been for days and nights. They are beginning to move towards a total war against Hamas, Hezbollah and also Iran by Proxy and direct action should it break out at any time.

    The US Senate has before it a bill to vote on the floor soon to allow the brand new 6.7 kt nuclear warheads to be installed on the Trident II's which are based at sea on our Boomers. The Trident II's some of which will retain the much bigger city wrecking 100KT warheads times up to 14 per missile. The current thinking is becoming to where a boomer can throw a whole bunch of little nukes against a russian aggression somewhere in Europe in the future without risking a all out nuclear exchange with the big stuff between their home land and our own. The problem is when the missiles come out of the ocean carrying the little nukes Russia cannot take the chance that these are the small ones. And so must respond accordingly against our homeland. If this vote goes through the senate it will become operational later this year.

    Italy is breaking free from the European Union with a Government that is totally discarding anything Brussels has to say. Once Italy is out, other nations within the EU will simply tell Brussels and the rest of the EU to shove it and we wont have any more Europe ever again. In fact. There is a possibility that if the economic war imposed on them for imports here to the USA and also for continuing to ignore us and do business with Iran will begin to be treated as enemies of the USA. We don't know yet how far it will go.

    Anyway without further ado, there is the entire article which contains the Arkansas and Missouri's employers decisions to simply stop drug testing people including truckers and hire felons anyway to get the necessary job needs filled and things rolling.

    Tonight we are in peace. But when the sun rises tomorrow, there may be no more peace left.

    This is a post carefully written in a sober method with clear, and very plain news that is what is going on right now or very very soon this week. Things are changing and I think this time it's permanent. If I start getting phone calls asking if I still hold a CDL with the knowledge I am a current pain patient by a employer intent on disregarding drug testing for same in trucking in whatever form, I'll be sure to let you all know.

    To Avoid Raising Wages, Firms Are Now Hiring Felons And Drug Addicts: Beige Book
     
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  3. 88 Alpha

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    As a "Staff member" who has had to moderate you a time or two, I really appreciate the kind words.
     
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