I have to mail $116 to the state of Florida because our trailer blew an inside tire, a passing motorist yelled at us and told us about it (otherwise we would have had no way of knowing), and we were looking for a safe place to pull over when one of Florida's Finest pulled us over. It is illegal to drive with a blown tire in Florida...yes...but we haven't yet figured out how to bring the truck to an instantaneous stop, aside from running it into a bridge abutment, which is also illegal, not to mention painful.
We got another ticket because the great state of Texas set up an ad-hoc truck inspection point, and just at the place where you're supposed to turn in, all of the lights were turned out, and there were no markings or signs. So Tony overshot the ramp by about a hundred feet or so, and guess what? The cop was already sitting there waiting to write the ticket for failure to obey a traffic sign, about $180, as I recall.
So who gives a shit? This is just our problem, right? Wrong. Take a trip down the road right now, and you will find semis pulled over all over the place. This is all part of a program called "CSA2010", which is supposed to improve traffic safety. It won't. What it will do is have a seriously deterimental effect on the US economy. More jobs will be lost, and the price of everything that you buy will go up. Why? Dawk! Everything that you buy is delivered by truck, even the gas that you put in your car. If you think that drivers are going to accept a life of poverty and just keep paying these tickets out of their own pockets, you don't have all four wheels on the road. The cost will be passed on to the shippers, to the customers, and to the consumers of everything...food, clothes, electronics, gas...everything. It will also be passed on to the cost of diesel fuel, because diesel fuel is delivered by truck, which will just compound the problem, over and over again, kind of like the "value added tax" that Obama and the dems in Congress have a hard-on for.
What's the answer? Maybe vote a little more carefully next time. Maybe stop and think for a minute..."change" doesn't necessarily mean "improvement"! Of course I would never, ever suggest running over the next cop you see getting out of his car. That just wouldn't be right. But if I see one lying in the road already, all I'm going to do is make a nice, safe lane change and go around him. I hate running over speed bumps.
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We got another ticket because the great state of Texas set up an ad-hoc truck inspection point, and just at the place where you're supposed to turn in, all of the lights were turned out, and there were no markings or signs. So Tony overshot the ramp by about a hundred feet or so, and guess what? The cop was already sitting there waiting to write the ticket for failure to obey a traffic sign, about $180, as I recall.
So who gives a shit? This is just our problem, right? Wrong. Take a trip down the road right now, and you will find semis pulled over all over the place. This is all part of a program called "CSA2010", which is supposed to improve traffic safety. It won't. What it will do is have a seriously deterimental effect on the US economy. More jobs will be lost, and the price of everything that you buy will go up. Why? Dawk! Everything that you buy is delivered by truck, even the gas that you put in your car. If you think that drivers are going to accept a life of poverty and just keep paying these tickets out of their own pockets, you don't have all four wheels on the road. The cost will be passed on to the shippers, to the customers, and to the consumers of everything...food, clothes, electronics, gas...everything. It will also be passed on to the cost of diesel fuel, because diesel fuel is delivered by truck, which will just compound the problem, over and over again, kind of like the "value added tax" that Obama and the dems in Congress have a hard-on for.
What's the answer? Maybe vote a little more carefully next time. Maybe stop and think for a minute..."change" doesn't necessarily mean "improvement"! Of course I would never, ever suggest running over the next cop you see getting out of his car. That just wouldn't be right. But if I see one lying in the road already, all I'm going to do is make a nice, safe lane change and go around him. I hate running over speed bumps.
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