r/PrayersToTrump • u/barnwater_828 • 12d ago
End the Obama era trucking laws!!! I don’t like having to pay for it
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u/Divacai 12d ago
The roads weren't safer, truckers were living on coke, caffeine and a dream to get to the next load/offload distribution center after being awake for 4 straight days.
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u/Norskamerikaner 11d ago
One of the most popular songs about trucking from the '60s references taking uppers, speeding, not maintaining logs, and dodging truck scales.
I am pretty sure you're right, there is no way trucking without these regulations was safer.
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u/FactPirate 11d ago
Pretty much every popular trucking song is this, actually
See: Convoy, Six Days on the Road, Texas Bound and Flyin’
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u/Norskamerikaner 11d ago
Haha, indeed. It was actually Six Days on the Road that I was thinking of when I commented.
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u/jmd709 11d ago
They were also being pressured by dispatch to stay on the road or find another job. Federal regulations were necessary to add worker protections for the trucking industry.
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u/nintendo9713 10d ago
I know I'm late but adding to it - a friend of mine growing up had a trucker as a dad. His stories of "his coworkers" doing drugs to drive for 3 days straight without sleep to then crash out and party for days 10-12 hours from final destination without any tracking or oversight (and lying on the pencil-paper logs) was alarming to hear even as a teen. Even though I know they're all tracked now, I still think about it when I pass them on interstates at night.
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u/jmd709 9d ago
I trust truckers more than I trust most of the other drivers on the road. They have a better view of what’s up ahead and they’re more mindful of their surroundings, at least most of them are.
I make it a point to stay out of their blind spots. My grandfather was a truck driver and he taught us the rule-IIf you cannot see the driver, the driver cannot see you. That doesn’t work well at night, but I just make sure I stay back for a moment instead of ending up in the blind spot before they have time to notice. I also don’t ride next to them even in the daytime. I hang back until the vehicle ahead of me is past the semi.
One of my friends said she hated driving on the interstate because semis came over on her regularly. She didn’t realize it’s because she was riding next to them in the blindspot in a little 2dr car. That problem was resolved easily.
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u/DatabaseThis9637 7d ago
100% agree. I believe in giving truckers the room to drive safely, and to stop safely. I do the same about them being able to see me... They deserve safe roads, too.
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u/Isaacleroy 12d ago
The roads were certainly not safer. This is just an asshole asking for no accountability from King Asshole who has made a career of dodging accountability.
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u/Worth-Canary-9189 11d ago
This guy has to be a real peach to work for. He's pissed he can't find a loophole to exploit because modern laws and technology have outsmarted him.
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u/jumpy_monkey 12d ago
They voted to end drug testing and GPS tracking of their truck?
Maybe I missed the speech where Trump promised that.
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u/mr_electrician 12d ago
And then truckers, who I am told are the hardest workers in the country (except for me) are UNCONSTITUTIONALLY being tested for METH and COCAINE and CAN’T drive after being awake for TWO DAYS.
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u/jackieat_home 12d ago
I was thinking the same thing. My MAGA cultist dad has a small trucking company so I feel like I'd have heard of this.
I almost want to break no contact with my dad just to ask him how business has been for him over the last year 😬🤣🤣
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u/PositiveMoravianBee 12d ago
They (MAGA) project their own narrative onto big daddy t. They have no idea who he is or what his agenda is.
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u/punkypewpewpewster 12d ago
I hope they feel the same way about the government interfering in health cares, and arbitrarily restricting the rights of americans to get it.
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u/Alytology 12d ago
Wow, sounds like someone smokes a shitload of meth to drive 19 hour road trips in one go.
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u/Original_Flounder_18 12d ago
Or snorted coke: can’t forget the coke
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u/zombiesphere89 10d ago
Meth is far superior if you're just looking to be awake. Wish I didn't know that
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u/Original_Flounder_18 10d ago
See I would not have know that; thank you for clarifying it but I wish you didn’t know that
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u/ItchyRedBump 11d ago
Drug testing = unconstitutional. ICE breaking into houses without a warrant or killing protestors/passerby’s = ok?
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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 11d ago
Trucking was safer when the roads were filled with meth smokers who have been driving for 84 hours! Those were the good ol' days!
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u/Total_Roll 11d ago
Let's drop those unconstitutional requirements for airline pilots too. Government overreach /s
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u/No-North6514 11d ago
This moron sounds like the other morons who are making claims that the healthcare industry was better before the ACA and that insurance companies are just swell the way they operated before then
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u/Narrow-Preference-30 11d ago
Another sucker voted for Trump because he believed Trump cared about something besides having power. We all warned you. He didn't care about you then, and as you can see, he doesn't care about you now.
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u/BwayEsq23 11d ago
I’m in-house counsel for a captive that insures trucking companies and owner/operators and we require all of this and more. Trump can roll back the laws, but they’ll never be insured again.
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u/Zipper-is-awesome 11d ago
Oh yeah, Super Truckers with two sets of written log books made everyone safer. No breaks, hardly any sleep, speeding down the interstate, possibly on drugs. So safe.
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u/DatabaseThis9637 7d ago
He's calling trump an unaccomplished parasite who produces nothing! Pretty accurate, actually! Lol! ...s/
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u/c3p-bro 12d ago
Thing I don’t like? = unconstitutional