They need to stop hiding word of their vast flying tarantula farms. Sure, they aren't always venemous but most people can't get over how many are able to enter houses via the sewer system.
Wyoming Road Usage Charge
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by TheLoadOut, Nov 19, 2020.
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I have a good friend that was born and raised in Elk Mountain. Still has family there. I told him that I went through there on day and it wasn't windy. He called me a liar. Lol. He also told me about the hotel there when he was growing up.
Back before the Interstate, many big name entertainers came through there and would stop in Elk Mountain to rest. They had a place at/near the hotel called the Garden Spot Pavilion. In the post WWII era many of these big names played the pavilion on the way through and played there often. And for not having anyone living around there, as some say, they really packed them in. Entertainers playing there included Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, Les Brown, Lawrence Welk and Louis Armstrong. Also performing were country and western artists like Hank Thompson, Jim Reeves, Tex Williams and Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Would have been something to see.Truckermania, tscottme and Rubber duck kw Thank this. -
In Wyoming us individuals and small businesses have had extremely low taxes because we have enjoyed decades of thermal coal and oil and gas paying most of the bills. Unfortunately due to the downfall of thermal coal and the boom in natural gas drilling resulting in a glut of cheap natural gas and lower prices the writing has been on the wall for years in Wyoming.
Even without environmental regulations the economics of thermal coal have been tanking for years now but our spineless legislators keep kicking the need for new revenue can down the road because it will be politically expensive for them to really address.
Basically all our cowardly legislators do is propose some form of additional revenue that they think will sound like it won't hit the locals as much and then it hits the news and then it goes away.
Here is a news story that will describe the states situation better.
For Wyo’s untaxed generations, the 'free ride' may be over
But as the state legislature only convenes in a budget session in even numbered years and they got nothing done this year we will just have extreme budget cuts for the next couple of years.
The Governor is already slashing budgets which means that WYDOT has to cut plowing operations and will limit overtime and will probably not plow anything overnight if we have a rough winter nothing is going to fix this this year.
With the fact that towns like mine only have 3 ICU beds and because those beds cannot be shared between Covid-19 cases and other cases this is the year to slow the hell down and increase your following distances when driving across Wyoming, especially if you have a light road.
As Utah is rationing care and Wyoming ICUs will most likely be full over the next few weeks if you crash this year you simply will not get a normal standard of care if you need to go to the ER.
Even if the Interstate travel lanes are plowed at night the medians most likely will not be and non-Interstates will not be plowed at night and the roadway will only be made passable for drivers who are taking reasonable winter driving precautions.
I apologize that my elected officials being cowards impacts you but please plan for extra time and slow down this year for your own health and safety.
The only thing that made it out of committee related to transportation was increasing the 24 cent fuel tax by 9 cents....we will see if that actually happens.
The state legislature hasn't allocated any general funds to WYDOT in years and the departments revenue has been reduced every year for the past 10 years so they didn't even have the ability to deal with the impacts of normal inflation. Basically our cowardly legislators have known about this problem for 20 years and have refused to deal with it and have been slowly taking money away knowing that the impacts of being underfunded wouldn't show up for years and years.
Now it is catching up to us and the Federal Highway Trust Fund problem will make this a national problem in the next few years.
It will get ugly but it won't only be Wyoming.Last edited: Nov 27, 2020
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