What If American Freight Trucking Was Owned And Operated By The Federal Government?

The industry would be bankrupt in 90 days and politicians would be more rich than they already are.

G-town, also spot on!

As someone who worked for the federal govt for 17 years... I can tell you ... NO the govt cannot efficiently run anything. There is still a $1million robot sitting in a corner of my old postal service processing plant. It has sat there for 10 years and never used because no one bothered to measure the height of it against the ceiling in the building. It was meant to unload the trucks. However.... It can't get from the inside of the building to the loading dock because it is too tall and they can't break down the arched doors. There's govt efficiency for you

If the government wants to help the trucking industry, they can stop robbing transportation funds intended for road repair. Aren’t fuel taxes supposed to be mainly for maintaining roads?

Also, I wish that we could pause the 14 hour clock, and not just with sleeper berth. I’ve never understood the rational behind the unstoppable 14 hour clock. Maybe someone could enlighten me on this issue.

As someone who worked for the federal govt for 17 years... I can tell you ... NO the govt cannot efficiently run anything. There is still a $1million robot sitting in a corner of my old postal service processing plant. It has sat there for 10 years and never used because no one bothered to measure the height of it against the ceiling in the building. It was meant to unload the trucks. However.... It can't get from the inside of the building to the loading dock because it is too tall and they can't break down the arched doors. There's govt efficiency for you

We need to elect more working-class Americans to public office, veteran drivers included, and elect more veterans of military service who were NCO's. I was in the army and the NCO's, high-ranking enlisted personnel, get it done. I think more scientists, engineers, skilled trades workers and civil engineers should hold public office too, the intelligence likes of Dr. Carl Sagen. We should have the likes of blue-collar America and scientific/technical people in the Oval Office, on the Hill and in states' governor's chairs warming the butt cushions.

If the government wants to help the trucking industry, they can stop robbing transportation funds intended for road repair. Aren’t fuel taxes supposed to be mainly for maintaining roads?

Also, I wish that we could pause the 14 hour clock, and not just with sleeper berth. I’ve never understood the rational behind the unstoppable 14 hour clock. Maybe someone could enlighten me on this issue.

You can pause it with any off-duty status. Once it starts again, it cannot be stopped again until the split has been completed.

This is Todd.

A lot of the newbies don’t know Todd The Troll.

Want the troll to go away… stop feeding it.

A lot of the newbies don’t know Todd The Troll.

Want the troll to go away… stop feeding it.

I know, yet every time IT returns, long-time members show up with grocery bags full for IT.

If the government wants to help the trucking industry, they can stop robbing transportation funds intended for road repair. Aren’t fuel taxes supposed to be mainly for maintaining roads?

Also, I wish that we could pause the 14 hour clock, and not just with sleeper berth. I’ve never understood the rational behind the unstoppable 14 hour clock. Maybe someone could enlighten me on this issue.

You can pause it with any off-duty status. Once it starts again, it cannot be stopped again until the split has been completed.

Ryan, “off duty” does not pause the 14 hour clock.