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<p>[QUOTE="CA_Medicine_Woman, post: 2297324, member: 29810"]I've been making decent money since 1997 running 100% compliant. I may have had to change jobs to keep that record a couple of times, but I've done it, repeatedly. As a result, I have a perfect CSA score. And, when you factor in fines, out of service orders, and periods of unemployment for too many tickets, I'd bet dollars to donuts my actual net pay annually is much higher than those who insist on "running cowboy" and "outlaw." It's a simple matter of keeping that left door shut, not to mention proper trip planning (which includes planning for the unexpected to happen).</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of us can do it, easily. The ones that can't will be out of the industry in a few years, thanks to CSA. The USMC has a motto for how to approach a particularly difficult task, ADAPT, IMPROVISE, OVERCOME. Those who can will survive. Those who can't better save what money they have left after fines to pay for retraining into another career, which is what you claim to have done.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And I call BS on the claims that you watched 6 guys cleaning out there trucks while their wives were waiting, all PO'd. Orientation is in a different location, a couple of miles away, with lots of trees and a few houses making it impossible to see one location from another while on the ground, or even standing on the roof.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CA_Medicine_Woman, post: 2297324, member: 29810"]I've been making decent money since 1997 running 100% compliant. I may have had to change jobs to keep that record a couple of times, but I've done it, repeatedly. As a result, I have a perfect CSA score. And, when you factor in fines, out of service orders, and periods of unemployment for too many tickets, I'd bet dollars to donuts my actual net pay annually is much higher than those who insist on "running cowboy" and "outlaw." It's a simple matter of keeping that left door shut, not to mention proper trip planning (which includes planning for the unexpected to happen). Most of us can do it, easily. The ones that can't will be out of the industry in a few years, thanks to CSA. The USMC has a motto for how to approach a particularly difficult task, ADAPT, IMPROVISE, OVERCOME. Those who can will survive. Those who can't better save what money they have left after fines to pay for retraining into another career, which is what you claim to have done. And I call BS on the claims that you watched 6 guys cleaning out there trucks while their wives were waiting, all PO'd. Orientation is in a different location, a couple of miles away, with lots of trees and a few houses making it impossible to see one location from another while on the ground, or even standing on the roof.[/QUOTE]
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