Are you saying passenger car diesels didn't have any effect on
supply and demand????????????
Our govornment does subsidize the railroads, but there are NO
subsidizes for independent owner operator truckers, I'd drag out my
prophet and lost statement to show you just how many taxes I paid, taxes
on taxes and for each state I operated, but ten cent an hour is just too
embarrassing.
Once again, you proved you know another about business, or anthing
else as far as you've posted to this group!
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> The idea that passenger car diesels had a lot to do with fuel prices
> is --------, because their on-road percentage was never more than one
> percent or so tops. In fact, the highest percentage of privately owned
> diesel vehicles in US history is today-and ninety percent are the 3/4
> and one ton Duramax, PowerStroke and ISB Cummins four-wheel -----
> extension systems, NOT the much cleaner by law VW and Mercedes diesels
> (and VM Libtys).
>
> If diesel exhaust is so unhealthy let's make Class 8 trucks switch
> first because it would be the easiest to start there. We artificially
> subsidize truck freight vis-a-vis railroads by making Class 8 trucks
> pay about 20% of their fair share of highway maintenance costs-a ton of
> freight costs a LOT more in pavement maintenance than it would on
> tracks. That's scientific fact. Let's also require at least one year of
> college or five years of equivalent non-trucking work experience with
> NO grandfathering to get a full CDL.
>
> And opening the ANWR to drilling is stupid. It will all be gone and
> the oil companies will pull out leaving the land a stinking, rotting
> wreck zone like they usually do. Which will happen in about five years
> after they start.

 

Are you saying passenger car diesels didn't have any effect on
supply and demand????????????
Our govornment does subsidize the railroads, but there are NO
subsidizes for independent owner operator truckers, I'd drag out my
prophet and lost statement to show you just how many taxes I paid, taxes
on taxes and for each state I operated, but ten cent an hour is just too
embarrassing.
Once again, you proved you know another about business, or anthing
else as far as you've posted to this group!
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> The idea that passenger car diesels had a lot to do with fuel prices
> is --------, because their on-road percentage was never more than one
> percent or so tops. In fact, the highest percentage of privately owned
> diesel vehicles in US history is today-and ninety percent are the 3/4
> and one ton Duramax, PowerStroke and ISB Cummins four-wheel -----
> extension systems, NOT the much cleaner by law VW and Mercedes diesels
> (and VM Libtys).
>
> If diesel exhaust is so unhealthy let's make Class 8 trucks switch
> first because it would be the easiest to start there. We artificially
> subsidize truck freight vis-a-vis railroads by making Class 8 trucks
> pay about 20% of their fair share of highway maintenance costs-a ton of
> freight costs a LOT more in pavement maintenance than it would on
> tracks. That's scientific fact. Let's also require at least one year of
> college or five years of equivalent non-trucking work experience with
> NO grandfathering to get a full CDL.
>
> And opening the ANWR to drilling is stupid. It will all be gone and
> the oil companies will pull out leaving the land a stinking, rotting
> wreck zone like they usually do. Which will happen in about five years
> after they start.

 

Are you saying passenger car diesels didn't have any effect on
supply and demand????????????
Our govornment does subsidize the railroads, but there are NO
subsidizes for independent owner operator truckers, I'd drag out my
prophet and lost statement to show you just how many taxes I paid, taxes
on taxes and for each state I operated, but ten cent an hour is just too
embarrassing.
Once again, you proved you know another about business, or anthing
else as far as you've posted to this group!
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> The idea that passenger car diesels had a lot to do with fuel prices
> is --------, because their on-road percentage was never more than one
> percent or so tops. In fact, the highest percentage of privately owned
> diesel vehicles in US history is today-and ninety percent are the 3/4
> and one ton Duramax, PowerStroke and ISB Cummins four-wheel -----
> extension systems, NOT the much cleaner by law VW and Mercedes diesels
> (and VM Libtys).
>
> If diesel exhaust is so unhealthy let's make Class 8 trucks switch
> first because it would be the easiest to start there. We artificially
> subsidize truck freight vis-a-vis railroads by making Class 8 trucks
> pay about 20% of their fair share of highway maintenance costs-a ton of
> freight costs a LOT more in pavement maintenance than it would on
> tracks. That's scientific fact. Let's also require at least one year of
> college or five years of equivalent non-trucking work experience with
> NO grandfathering to get a full CDL.
>
> And opening the ANWR to drilling is stupid. It will all be gone and
> the oil companies will pull out leaving the land a stinking, rotting
> wreck zone like they usually do. Which will happen in about five years
> after they start.

 

Well, you are partially right, trucks DO pay a lot of taxes, which is
the good, or bad, news. The worse news is that they do MOST of the
vehicle induced damage to the Interstate highway system and contribute,
at most, about twenty percent of the amount going to maintain them.

The freight rates are in the toilet because of the huge number of OOs
who are terrible business people and will in effect haul for free
because they won't retire or find other employment. They buy all of the
three year old trucks from the big truckload carriers-you think they
LIKE baby blue, beige or orange??-at prices that let them own trucks
for free, and they keep hauling for next to nothing to pay the
insurance and truck payment.

Here's my idea: put a federal excise tax on truckload freight , and
put out of service all the morbidly obese, functionally illiterate, or
rotten-toothed (did you know it can cause heart attacks and is
therefore a safety issue??) drivers, OOs or company drivers alike. And
require Class 8 truck companies to price their trucks the same to all
buyers buying above three trucks. And require APU's on all tractors
with sleepers unless the operator can prove they only stop at places
with shore power and make every state outlaw idling like New York.
Freight rates will go up, I guarantee.

 

Well, you are partially right, trucks DO pay a lot of taxes, which is
the good, or bad, news. The worse news is that they do MOST of the
vehicle induced damage to the Interstate highway system and contribute,
at most, about twenty percent of the amount going to maintain them.

The freight rates are in the toilet because of the huge number of OOs
who are terrible business people and will in effect haul for free
because they won't retire or find other employment. They buy all of the
three year old trucks from the big truckload carriers-you think they
LIKE baby blue, beige or orange??-at prices that let them own trucks
for free, and they keep hauling for next to nothing to pay the
insurance and truck payment.

Here's my idea: put a federal excise tax on truckload freight , and
put out of service all the morbidly obese, functionally illiterate, or
rotten-toothed (did you know it can cause heart attacks and is
therefore a safety issue??) drivers, OOs or company drivers alike. And
require Class 8 truck companies to price their trucks the same to all
buyers buying above three trucks. And require APU's on all tractors
with sleepers unless the operator can prove they only stop at places
with shore power and make every state outlaw idling like New York.
Freight rates will go up, I guarantee.

 

Well, you are partially right, trucks DO pay a lot of taxes, which is
the good, or bad, news. The worse news is that they do MOST of the
vehicle induced damage to the Interstate highway system and contribute,
at most, about twenty percent of the amount going to maintain them.

The freight rates are in the toilet because of the huge number of OOs
who are terrible business people and will in effect haul for free
because they won't retire or find other employment. They buy all of the
three year old trucks from the big truckload carriers-you think they
LIKE baby blue, beige or orange??-at prices that let them own trucks
for free, and they keep hauling for next to nothing to pay the
insurance and truck payment.

Here's my idea: put a federal excise tax on truckload freight , and
put out of service all the morbidly obese, functionally illiterate, or
rotten-toothed (did you know it can cause heart attacks and is
therefore a safety issue??) drivers, OOs or company drivers alike. And
require Class 8 truck companies to price their trucks the same to all
buyers buying above three trucks. And require APU's on all tractors
with sleepers unless the operator can prove they only stop at places
with shore power and make every state outlaw idling like New York.
Freight rates will go up, I guarantee.

 

Well, you are partially right, trucks DO pay a lot of taxes, which is
the good, or bad, news. The worse news is that they do MOST of the
vehicle induced damage to the Interstate highway system and contribute,
at most, about twenty percent of the amount going to maintain them.

The freight rates are in the toilet because of the huge number of OOs
who are terrible business people and will in effect haul for free
because they won't retire or find other employment. They buy all of the
three year old trucks from the big truckload carriers-you think they
LIKE baby blue, beige or orange??-at prices that let them own trucks
for free, and they keep hauling for next to nothing to pay the
insurance and truck payment.

Here's my idea: put a federal excise tax on truckload freight , and
put out of service all the morbidly obese, functionally illiterate, or
rotten-toothed (did you know it can cause heart attacks and is
therefore a safety issue??) drivers, OOs or company drivers alike. And
require Class 8 truck companies to price their trucks the same to all
buyers buying above three trucks. And require APU's on all tractors
with sleepers unless the operator can prove they only stop at places
with shore power and make every state outlaw idling like New York.
Freight rates will go up, I guarantee.

 

To give you a little idea of my costs, before I bought Kalifornia
prorated tractor license plate with an Arizona tag, it used cost me
seventy five bucks to drive from the scales at the Arizona border to
Phoenix each time. That's well over a buck a mile right off the top.
Luckily I had a half an extra million dollars from my gas station for my
hobby.
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Well, you are partially right, trucks DO pay a lot of taxes, which is
> the good, or bad, news. The worse news is that they do MOST of the
> vehicle induced damage to the Interstate highway system and contribute,
> at most, about twenty percent of the amount going to maintain them.
>
> The freight rates are in the toilet because of the huge number of OOs
> who are terrible business people and will in effect haul for free
> because they won't retire or find other employment. They buy all of the
> three year old trucks from the big truckload carriers-you think they
> LIKE baby blue, beige or orange??-at prices that let them own trucks
> for free, and they keep hauling for next to nothing to pay the
> insurance and truck payment.
>
> Here's my idea: put a federal excise tax on truckload freight , and
> put out of service all the morbidly obese, functionally illiterate, or
> rotten-toothed (did you know it can cause heart attacks and is
> therefore a safety issue??) drivers, OOs or company drivers alike. And
> require Class 8 truck companies to price their trucks the same to all
> buyers buying above three trucks. And require APU's on all tractors
> with sleepers unless the operator can prove they only stop at places
> with shore power and make every state outlaw idling like New York.
> Freight rates will go up, I guarantee.

 

To give you a little idea of my costs, before I bought Kalifornia
prorated tractor license plate with an Arizona tag, it used cost me
seventy five bucks to drive from the scales at the Arizona border to
Phoenix each time. That's well over a buck a mile right off the top.
Luckily I had a half an extra million dollars from my gas station for my
hobby.
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Well, you are partially right, trucks DO pay a lot of taxes, which is
> the good, or bad, news. The worse news is that they do MOST of the
> vehicle induced damage to the Interstate highway system and contribute,
> at most, about twenty percent of the amount going to maintain them.
>
> The freight rates are in the toilet because of the huge number of OOs
> who are terrible business people and will in effect haul for free
> because they won't retire or find other employment. They buy all of the
> three year old trucks from the big truckload carriers-you think they
> LIKE baby blue, beige or orange??-at prices that let them own trucks
> for free, and they keep hauling for next to nothing to pay the
> insurance and truck payment.
>
> Here's my idea: put a federal excise tax on truckload freight , and
> put out of service all the morbidly obese, functionally illiterate, or
> rotten-toothed (did you know it can cause heart attacks and is
> therefore a safety issue??) drivers, OOs or company drivers alike. And
> require Class 8 truck companies to price their trucks the same to all
> buyers buying above three trucks. And require APU's on all tractors
> with sleepers unless the operator can prove they only stop at places
> with shore power and make every state outlaw idling like New York.
> Freight rates will go up, I guarantee.

 

To give you a little idea of my costs, before I bought Kalifornia
prorated tractor license plate with an Arizona tag, it used cost me
seventy five bucks to drive from the scales at the Arizona border to
Phoenix each time. That's well over a buck a mile right off the top.
Luckily I had a half an extra million dollars from my gas station for my
hobby.
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/

calcerise@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Well, you are partially right, trucks DO pay a lot of taxes, which is
> the good, or bad, news. The worse news is that they do MOST of the
> vehicle induced damage to the Interstate highway system and contribute,
> at most, about twenty percent of the amount going to maintain them.
>
> The freight rates are in the toilet because of the huge number of OOs
> who are terrible business people and will in effect haul for free
> because they won't retire or find other employment. They buy all of the
> three year old trucks from the big truckload carriers-you think they
> LIKE baby blue, beige or orange??-at prices that let them own trucks
> for free, and they keep hauling for next to nothing to pay the
> insurance and truck payment.
>
> Here's my idea: put a federal excise tax on truckload freight , and
> put out of service all the morbidly obese, functionally illiterate, or
> rotten-toothed (did you know it can cause heart attacks and is
> therefore a safety issue??) drivers, OOs or company drivers alike. And
> require Class 8 truck companies to price their trucks the same to all
> buyers buying above three trucks. And require APU's on all tractors
> with sleepers unless the operator can prove they only stop at places
> with shore power and make every state outlaw idling like New York.
> Freight rates will go up, I guarantee.