This is different than elogs. This is about control. If they can control everybody with speeed limiters then soon it will be they will outlaw trucks that run paper and have no governer. Then it will be,outlaw all diesel trucks. You can only run electric. An o/op and small fleet cant afford that but the megas can.. Thats what they wanna do is push out their competition, its just business. And our freedoms will slowly be pushed away until guys stand up snd do something. The older guys that only have a couple years left until reitrement they dont care because it doeant effect them. But for someone like me all thats going to happen in my career until we do something about it and stand up against it. Because one day swift is going to have 100k robot trucks on the road, along with every other mega company out there. And there wont be a small guy left... Its the death of small business. Slowly but surely that is their plan. Take the blinders off and realize elogs and speed limiters are only the beginning.
Petition to oppose FMCSA speed limiter mandate
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look at what the government did to small business during the pandemic.. they destroyed them. most had to close permanetly.. even if they sold the same products as walmart or another mega retailer in their area, the small business was forced to close while the mega company was able to stay open.. why is that? its an important question to ask and an important thing to realize... why does small business owners have the highest tax rates? if you would have went back 3 or 4 years ago and told the resturant and other small business owners the government was going to come in and shut all of them down overnight and blame it on a health crisis, but yet the bigger corporations that they directly compete against, and sell the same products as, will be able to stay open. do you think they would believe you if you told them that? probably not. but it happened. that exact scenario happened. and those people went out of business overnight. the government hates small business because its hard to control them... which is what the government is all about, control... nothing more nothing less.. doesnt mattter which side you are on...
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New Mexico left lane truck rule vetoed
In New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham took no action on a bill to keep trucks to the right on interstates. As a result, the bill received a pocket veto.
House lawmakers voted 52-14 to send the bill to the governor that called for limiting truck lane use. The Senate approved the bill on a 33-5 vote.
State law already requires all vehicles to stay to the right. Violators face $25 fines. Certain exceptions apply.
Sponsored by Sen. George Munoz, D-Gallup, SB174 sought to set a rule to mandate that large trucks traveling on interstates outside of municipalities to stay in the right-hand lane. Affected roadways are posted at 75 mph for all vehicles.
According to a fiscal note, the change would affect 4,437 miles of intestate in New Mexico. Violators would have faced $200 fines.
A provision in the bill allowed truckers to merge left in affected areas when overtaking another vehicle.
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