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Come on now,,a 3 year old is dead, a family in shock, and folks in here are talking about road and fuel tax stuff and hoove marks and so on. I'm gonna try and be calm now, but some folks need compassion in here IMHO. Lets see, an 80,000lb rig runs over the top of a buggy, hmmm. Yep...

No, Social Security is NOT a welfare program nor was it set up to be. It was forced on us, by law, under pain of arrest or worse, to provide a supplement for people's retirement. Yes it sure is, it is welfare for rich retired people and those who can give up a bit to help the country. It is...

Yes Moot, i did miss that but I also did not mention that I was not saying you were the backwards thinking person I was directing it to - which I never thought of you thinking backwards for any reason.

Well guess what? It was! I think you mistake me for a drive by poster. This is what happens to a person who has no pickles but 150 lbs of navy beans. :cool:

Maybe you but not me. I am in this as a business and my next step is to do more on my own to leverage my resources to fit my needs. I want that info, I want to know where everyone is and more importantly where the work from my carrier comes from so I can make decisions to fit into my...

I thought it was about my cat, she claimed to be the most fearsome predator on earth today.

Moot, I understand you feel that way but think about this; Does that company you "contract" with allow you to pick and choose your loads while not using any stats to create performance metrics to judge you by? If the company worked for you, then most of the constraints would be gone, like...

I bet those who own those buggies are paying more in taxes than most truck drivers.

I agree with you but that's not my point. I am not saying eliminate law enforcement, but rather to use the same concepts as does fire - volunteer force who can do the same job as the police for basic operations; patrol, traffic violations, stopping drunken brawls. This does not mean that...

It is sad and it is more sad that anyone would think that there needs to be paths for buggies. It isn't the fault of the buggy driver who is legal in their lane while there are more than one lane for these idiot drivers to use. The driver is at fault, and I would not even consider any defense...

I am not worried about this, other than the reasoning behind worrying about a non-us citizen who is a journalist in a country that is at war with factions within their own borders. I would surmise that we may be able to do without their help and remove ourselves from both countries.

No one FORCES them to accept welfare, not clean up where they live, turn in drug dealers and gang members. It is 100% their choice to enjoy what they have. True no one "forces" them to do that but on the other hand the use of welfare in rural areas is as great as that of the city. The...

Sorry Layout, it is the same mentality that is here in Detroit as it is in Monroe and down to Toledo. If you are going to make a statement of leveling a city, then it has to be put in context of what the underlying problem is - all of the south east region kisses Detroit's a** as if they...

Just to add this to the mix. Our carrier do not work for us, we work for them. They work for their investors and the customers they serve, sometimes in that order. I read where someone pays the carrier to find them loads and to do the work they don't want to do but they got it backwards...

Why can't police also be voluntary? There is no federal law or constitutional requirement to have a law enforcement officer be employed by the state or city, is there? Government protecting rights? You got it backwards. Why would we need a C5? Ever heard of a truck? And if there is...

The same reason why considering bombing people who refuse to change. It makes perfect sense, the south east region as a whole, including monroe county is the problem, not just one city.

I think we used to say the same thing about Texas, right? Katrina was a lesson in finger pointing and nothing more. Until we as a nation come to grips with real causes of disasters, in the case of N.O. the city government failed the people, we can't move ahead. By the way, just an FYI - the...

Well if that was the case, I would think from the Ohio border to the top of Oakland county and out to the Wayne county limits would be a good target. What really is a joke is the lack of political participation in this state, we have only a select group protesting at any given time and another...

There is no carrier that you can talk about honesty, integrity or truthfulness because we can't compare it to others until we are a part of it. But because you are avoiding naming a specific carrier, I assume that you would not want to back those claims up with actual comparisons to other...

Well I would agree with you but see the problem is that the law that was voted on by the state's citizens was to eliminate the discrimination the law caused when it was passed in the first place. The government and the state universities were bound by the law to fill unwritten quotas of race and...