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Trump is going to stick to doing things this year that he thinks will get him re-elected. He might be wrong, but that's his modus operandi, and is the same as every other president's has been.

Slasher wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 06, 2020 5:29 am

80 million bucks huh? Dead or alive?

In the latter case* I’m sure ol’ Boac might try to coax Trump into visiting his humble abode, alone, using all resources available to him for that kind of loot, but he’ll need a MAGA hat first.


* I doubt he would kill Donald outright. He’ll likely point the gun but not pull the trigger. Assassination of a dignitary is still a crime in England last time I checked, and he may get caught if someone ratted him out. Five million in non-negotiable bearer bonds would certainly buy my silence!

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I am a truck driver, sitting in Fort Wayne IN right now waiting to deliver...
That stretch of the PA TP is tight, continual curves, up and down... It is a dangerous stretch of road that I avoid at all costs. Expensive too, too expensive.
The tour buses, they routinely push the limits regarding speed, if you drive the interstates you already know this.
Then we have the trucks, we now have a clock on our dashboards, it is a countdown clock that starts at the beginning of our day, and it will not stop until we have 11 hours of actual driving or it reaches 14 hours. We are timed to the second, no allowances are made in most cases. We must be parked before the clock runs out, or demerits, fines and or termination will be the outcome. Gets a bit stressful out here at times, trust me on that.
This went into affect in 2018, every truck on the road has this countdown clock, it is the law.
I spoke with my insurance agent in November of last year, she told me my rates on my truck, my big truck, will be going up 30% to 100% at the first of the new year. I asked why, as I have a stellar driving record. She stated since the countdown clock, or ELD (Electronic Logging Device) was mandated by the FMCSA, accidents and fatalities involving big trucks has risen exponentially, along with jury awards that have been ridiculously high, in the tens of millions if not hundreds of millions. She also stated that there are only two insurance companies that will underwrite these policies, as everyone else has quit the industry.
Trucking companies are closing their doors in record numbers, over 800 last year alone. This year we are off to another rocky start as these insurance rates skyrocket, I know of a half a dozen companies just in the past week that have closed their doors due to these new insurance rates. I shut mine down, I had my own operating authority, I could no longer afford the costs, as rates are terrible out here, but that is the nature of the business since deregulation. This industry is in serious trouble, and no one is addressing it.
Back to this accident, I am guessing right now, but the bus was speeding as they always do, Fed Ex was right on his rear end speeding too, he was racing that clock on his dashboard. The other trucks behind him were doing the same. The bus driver messed up, the big trucks were speeding, playing beat the clock, and now you know the rest of the story.
Me, I am parking the truck in a week or two, it is getting to dangerous out here, and quite frankly, the pay is not worth the effort any longer after my expenses of owning and operating this truck of mine. Truck is paid for, just rebuilt the motor too, running the best it ever has in my 6 years of ownership. But, with this ELD in my truck, which has roughly caused a 30% loss in income, the aggressive drivers, along with the imported aggressive drivers, many of whom do not even speak or read English, it is time for this 31 year SAFE trucking veteran to move on to other things.
Hopefully things pick up this Spring so that I can sell the truck for some reasonable money. Sad.

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Mon Jan 06, 2020 5:03 pm

Former national security adviser John Bolton says he is now willing to testify in the Senate impeachment trial if subpoenaed.