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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
In the USA, Truck Drivers and especially Unionized 'long haul' drivers make very good wages. Unionized, yes, all others go broke. You really should get out once in a while. Non-union, those of us who get out have seen the signs on the trailers, 18 cents a mile, looking for teams, O/O wanted, etc. They are not looking for a driver. They are looking for a tractor with a driver. So the poor shmuck has to upfront the cost of the tractor, license, insurance, fuel, permits, ... then he gets a contract that says the trailer has to be picked up on X date (never ready in the morning) and Y thousand miles away on Z date (crack of dawn) or you don't get paid at all! Take Y divide by Z - X and you find out you are expected to drive at the speed limit 16 hours a day. That's why you see independent truckers running 10 to 20 over the speed limit and god forbid you read their fake log books on behind the wheel time. Of course now his butt is Y thousand miles away, how long before he is able to find a load going anywhere near where he came from? Dead head is wasted money, it doesn't happen. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
If the ending of the abuse of workers results in higher prices. So what!Good luck with that BTW, is your pension inflation linked? If not, you wouldn't be so cavalier with your "so what". |
Bernie Vine Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9954 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 |
Sorry Mr. Pro Capitalist, Anti Worker Sirius B... Well I am assuming that is being satirical. Which I have found over the years tends not to work well on forums as tone and expression in the voice are missing. If not lets just confine ourselves to calling people by their posted name. Try being nice and respectful I know that is difficult as it is so much fun to make up names (not) I have never understood that, even politicians I tend to just call by their last name even those I do not agree with, like Trump. Does giving them silly names make them seem less frightening? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well Trump has his trade war against the Chinese, but Ivanka is still allowed to make $'s from Chinese sweat shops, so there's more fuel to add to that up coming legal action. How Ivanka Trump’s fashion line was exempted from her father’s war on Chinese goods. This is certainly double standards. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Well Trump has his trade war against the Chinese, but Ivanka is still allowed to make $'s from Chinese sweat shops, so there's more fuel to add to that up coming legal action. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well it looks like the farmers in the Trump Belt are starting to feel the bite of this silly trade war and I wonder how long before those farmers start to bite back. U.S. soy beans down 13% while pork is down 7% already and it's only early days yet, but others are stepping up to fill those gaps (and we don't mind at all). |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Well it's about time they learnt the lesson: Mind over matter. We don't mind & they don't matter. :-) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Well it's about time they learnt the lesson: Mind over matter. no grey matter, so no lesson can be learned |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
SuperDuperSocialist in NY aka SAVIORofDEMOcraticParty HATEs Capitalism. TRADE. SAVIOR should Read 'bout THOUSANDs&THOUSANDs Years HistoryOfTRADE. MORE CUT-THROAT and BLOODThisrty Than CAPITALism. dA NewWorldOrderOfSOCIALISTs CANNOT Run dA World Without TRADE. And TRADE is SUPER NASTY. NOT MUCH Huggin'; Lovin'; Carin'; CumByAh wif TRADE. Sharp Knivin' and Lots O Front&Back Stabbin' ENJOY YOUR NEW WORLD SOCIALISTs. TRADE WARs. Go SOCIALIST and WAR will REIGN. APEs will Watch from Mountain High and Valley Low and will be ROTFLOFAO 'cause APEs do daT ORAnG ORanGE YAPe May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
yawn |
Stargate (SA) Send message Joined: 4 Mar 10 Posts: 1854 Credit: 2,258,721 RAC: 0 |
Lets see how well America goes when trades to US stop, rest of world will fill in the gaps easily.. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11360 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Oh |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Trump the Genius from Karlstad intensify his trade war! https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44898629 US President Donald Trump says he is ready to intensify his trade war with China by slapping tariffs on all $500bn of imports from the country. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Someone ought to tell the bimbo that every time he opens his mouth, stocks & currency lose. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Someone ought to tell the bimbo that every time he opens his mouth, stocks & currency lose. So long as hotel and condo prices don't go down, he doesn't care. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Sanctions on Russia's Rusal could be lifted, Mnuchin says. This is an aluminum company founded by a Putin-linked company. Meanwhile the US want to keep out aluminum from US allies in Europe, Canada, Japan, etc. for “national security†reasons! https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/27/politics/mnuchin-russia-sanctions-rusal/index.html |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Sanctions on Russia's Rusal could be lifted, Mnuchin says. Maybe Putin does have a tape after all. With three more hush money women, we seem to know Rump thinks with his small head. Such people are very easy to compromise. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
CHINA has announced an $81 billion list of US goods including coffee, honey and industrial chemicals for retaliation, if Washington goes ahead with its tariff threat. The Finance Ministry accused the Trump administration of damaging the global economy after it proposed increasing duties on $US200 billion ($A271 billion) of Chinese goods in the second round of a dispute over technology.Now that's going to hurt some. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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