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What idea or mechanism could be used to actually make it happen? While lots of people may rally around the issue, what changes would need to be made in the law or industry to actually make it happen that truckers got fully compensated for the hours in which they are detained?

In 1992, I founded the Independence Party of Minnesota. It changed its name to the Reform Party a few years later before Ventura was elected and then back to Independence Party when the party and Ventura split from the national Reform Party. It continues today.

How does $250 in parts come from SlushBuster use?

When I think about lobbying, I'm not thinking about something that goes on in Washington. I'm thinking about something that can be much more powerful and effective. When an elected official receives an e-mail, it counts for little. Form letters signed by constituients that were obviously...

A lot more thinking and writing needs to be done to pull this off. One thought, that might be good or bad, would to make the Driver's Training agenda item really disruptive by adding the notion that the training must be given, not by motor carriers, but by bona fide driver training schools...

That's key; to rally truckers behind a group of issues, the issues must be about the things that affect truckers directly. Whether you are Tea Party or a flaming liberal, it bites to get charged CSA points when a car hits your truck and you are in no way at fault. The closer to home you make the...

The first step in developing a fundamental strategy is to develop a fundamental set of issues around which to organize truckers and press the common agenda. Activism strategies that work are well known. Those can be easily developed simply by looking at any politial organization that succeeds in...

Well, we're off to a good start. More discussion is needed but let's talk more about one of the top three issues to be included in a suggested trucker agenda: Driver's Training. Open to other ideas, I'm going to go with three months classroom, one month practice driving and two months...

Yes. A Trailer Tail can be legally added to a 40' straight truck.

That is a good approach, but how do you make it work if you are operating under the new point system FCC imposed? Trucks that say yes to loads (profitable or unprofitable) get points that elevate them in the que of trucks for the next load. Trucks that decline loads get no points. This means...

People said the same thing when Diane and I entered the industry without experience. They predicted our failure because we did not know what experienced truckers knew. But look at us today. We are rather successful, thank you. People said the same thing when I founded a new political party in...

Well, let's give it a try. Check out this thread.

Yet another trucker strike failed today. This one in particular is no surprise since the organizer's agenda was fragmented and, according to many, just plain nuts. What would it take to organize a group of truckers, not to strick per se, but at least to rally around a common agenda to promote...

I hate to think it but am beginning to wonder if SlushBuster is a failing product. Trying to order a set today, I was unable to find them on the J.C. Whitney site where I have ordered them before. Going next to the INRSLTD.COM site, I noticed that they are priced at a five dollar discount from...

Based on the trucker strike impact reported in the news today, people of the Washington D.C. area may root for a trucker strike every day of the week. Traffic seemed to move smoother today than it has almost every time Diane and I drive through that town.

Find ways to cut expenses is always good advice. But as you say, Cheri, there is a point below which we cannot go. While you can always cut expenses by skipping meals, buying used trucks instead of new, running your tires to the lowest possible wear point and moving into smaller sleepers, we're...

Daffyduck528's comment about straight trucks being limited to 40 feet is important. Though, I know that exceptions have been made for devices that save fuel and make the truck longer. Bob, a photo of Diane's and my truck is below. It is exactly 40' long as it sits. How might you streamline a...

Here's a link to the Airflow Truck Company page.

The more that can be done to reduce the deer population, the better. While some people see them as wild game, I see them as pests and hazards. Deer strikes produce millions of dollars of damage per year to cars and trucks, and some injuries to people. Let hunters have their way with them. The...

Once upon a time, there was Roberts and almost no one else. FedEx picked up Roberts and there was then FedEx Custom Critical and maybe a few others (including Express America which was later picked up by Landstar to become Landstar Express America). Time marched on and many entered the...