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Its always something.....................................
 


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Maybe time for career change. Be driving the big rigs watching for smokeys:LOL:
 


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As we all know, CNN is the arbiter of truth.:)
 


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That is how the late 70’s started after the dumb SOB’s elected Jimmy Carter the peanut farmer to run the USA. Some crap road we are starting down with this old gray fraud that should have just stayed in his basement. Because after the fuel shortage, if memory serves me right, we get massive inflation, increased interest rates and finally unemployment that they will not be able to give money away to solve. Result? We better hope another Ronald Reagan appears to elect, because this place is a mess now and is getting worse every minute. If any of you were not alive then, go look at how double digit interest rates coupled with double digit inflation and unemployment will work. Oh, it is even more easy than that; just research the history of Venezuela and other Socialist dictatorships, their history is similar.
 


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Track the price of hay over the past decade, talk about inflation...holy shit
 


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This is what I do for a living ,and yes my company went from 48 drivers down to 33, mostly for the industry not paying enough and the aggressive drivers on the road that have zero respect for safety. I do good because I have been in it for 24 years, new drivers not so good. This also started since the clearing house was enacted a year ago. So they are weeding out drivers who have any kind of violent past, drugs etc. So far nation wide 60,000 drivers are gone. Can you say job security? Yes!
 


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This is what I do for a living ,and yes my company went from 48 drivers down to 33, mostly for the industry not paying enough and the aggressive drivers on the road that have zero respect for safety. I do good because I have been in it for 24 years, new drivers not so good. This also started since the clearing house was enacted a year ago. So they are weeding out drivers who have any kind of violent past, drugs etc. So far nation wide 60,000 drivers are gone. Can you say job security? Yes!
I was in the industry driving Tankers as well from 1985-1992 and got out right when the CDL was being mandated. The Washington DC Metro area back on the 80s and early 90s was crazy but now holy crap I respect the guys who do it. It’s a huge responsibility and those trucks don’t stop like cars which all the 4 wheelers are clueless. Sad story here 5 or so years ago during an early morning ice storm. A person who was stranded on a over pass ramp since their car wouldn’t move due to the ice caught on video a tanker truck on a separate ramp. The tanker has no control as it goes around a corner in the ramp and just keeps going way to fast and the tanker rolls over and then goes off the over pass ramp. The video is like a movie while you watch the tanker go way below and impacts and blows up. Truly sad being it was a newer driver and young guy who died. Another movie like tanker crash happened near Baltimore on the main interstate 95. A older driver had cardiac arrest while on an over pass ramp and he died as he was driving so the truck went air born onto the main 95 interstate and landed on peoples cars going under the bridge. a few people died in that one as well. Be safe and thank you for keeping the pipe line of fuel going.
 


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Thanks for the practical insight, Gentlemen.

It's virtually impossible for me to believe anyone in the media or politics.
 


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I lived through the gas shortage in 70's. Lines around the block, odd and even days to fill up, etc. That's when OPEC became a hated household name.
 


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I lived through the gas shortage in 70's. Lines around the block, odd and even days to fill up, etc. That's when OPEC became a hated household name.
Yep me too and at the time I lived in Cali and sat in the car for hours with my dad.
 


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It's all transportation. Since this covid shit. we now have all new drivers. mostly 20-30 year old's. leaning heavy on being PC. And for an example. Fedex. did business with them for years, prior to C19. since then. They are utter Idiots. I live in the sticks. my house is 1/2 mile from my mailbox. Fedex GPS. states that my mailbox is my address. When I order a package. and they reach my mailbox. They throw my package in the road ditch, or prop it next to a tree, or set it in the edge of the woods, along the damn highway! BECAUSE GPS says that is my address. I have called them and filed complaints, does know good. IDIOTS AT WORK IAW.
 


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I was in the industry driving Tankers as well from 1985-1992 and got out right when the CDL was being mandated. The Washington DC Metro area back on the 80s and early 90s was crazy but now holy crap I respect the guys who do it. It’s a huge responsibility and those trucks don’t stop like cars which all the 4 wheelers are clueless. Sad story here 5 or so years ago during an early morning ice storm. A person who was stranded on a over pass ramp since their car wouldn’t move due to the ice caught on video a tanker truck on a separate ramp. The tanker has no control as it goes around a corner in the ramp and just keeps going way to fast and the tanker rolls over and then goes off the over pass ramp. The video is like a movie while you watch the tanker go way below and impacts and blows up. Truly sad being it was a newer driver and young guy who died. Another movie like tanker crash happened near Baltimore on the main interstate 95. A older driver had cardiac arrest while on an over pass ramp and he died as he was driving so the truck went air born onto the main 95 interstate and landed on peoples cars going under the bridge. a few people died in that one as well. Be safe and thank you for keeping the pipe line of fuel going.
The trucks today are much better than the older ones 20 years ago, ABS ,stability control, all disc brakes. They still weigh 47 tons ,that hasn't changed. Also people are more angry and cut in front of me because they dont like my slower speed. As soon as there is space between the car in front of them and me, they cut right in and almost lose control. When I am in the right lane ,they come from the left lane and cut in front of me to the exit. I have a camera in the cab so it catches everything when I get on the brake a little more than normal.
 




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