Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:30 am Post subject: CSA 2010 * NEW TRUCK DRIVER Rules
NEW LAW WILL PUT TRUCK DRIVERS OUT OF BIZ
We are not ignorant of Satan's schemes. 2 Corinthians 2:11
December 2009 Part of CODEX to CONTROL ALL FOOD
It begins to be easy to see how 0bama can control food.
Just make laws to stop how food is delivered to towns.
A man called into talk radio saying he is a truck driver. He said they need a medical certificate to drive a truck.
He said as of January 1, 2010 0bama's new demands are for leaner drivers, and if they are over weight they cannot drive.
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Scott Johnson was talking about a potential food crisis in 2010 - one of the things he brought up was trying to create some crazy laws to limit truck drivers.
Yah - without them, how is our food going to be shipped et al?
I can say how an engineered food crisis can be brought out, and the Maitreya(or whoever the AC is) will emerge on the scene, offer supposedly solutions to this(albeit deceptively), which would make him pretty attractive.
Oh yah - NOW's the time to REALLY get close to THE gospel, and really have the Word written in our hearts! Remember what Jesus responded to Satan when Satan tempted him to turn stone into bread, Jesus responded that the true bread is the word of God! You can bet we will be facing ALOT of this in 2010!
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:31 am Post subject: TRANSPORTATION, Trucking
Great Lakes
Michigan sues Illinois to protect Great Lakes from Asian carp. The reversal of the Chicago River a
century ago, to send the city's sewage to the Mississippi River instead of into Lake Michigan, was hailed as an
engineering marvel. Now Michigan is suing Illinois to potentially re-reverse the river to stop carp entering the lake.
The suit also challenges Chicagos withdrawal of 2 billion gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan.
The Chicago River was reversed by connecting it through a system of canals to rivers whose waters flow into the
Mississippi. Varying degrees of ecological separation could be achieved by closing the canals using sluice gates
to allow lake water to flow but blocking fish or boats. Keeping the waterway open allows barge traffic
which otherwise will require goods be transported by truck, far more costly.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34599634/ns/us_news-washington_post
Shipping-Corridor Deal Cuts Heart Out of Heartland
by Phyllis Schlafly
Posted Aug 07, 2006
The plan, shrouded in secrecy, has been in the works for at least three years, but it is now coming to light because of the diligent use of Missouri's Sunshine law by concerned citizens. Joyce Mucci and Francis Semler forced the release of the e-mails from Kansas City to Mexico, including one admitting that "The space (in Kansas City) would need to be designated as Mexican sovereign territory."
SmartPort representatives are now running away from this written admission, blaming "the problems and pressure the media attention has created." However, the stubborn sovereignty issue won't go away; the plan does involve setting up Mexican customs officials in downtown Kansas City.
The mechanism for this deal is a "nonprofit" business economic development corporation called Kansas City SmartPort Inc., whose president is Chris J.F. Gutierrez. The deal calls for Kansas City to lease the valuable property at 1447 Liberty St.
As laid out on SmartPort's Web site, the plan is to enable products made in China to travel in sealed "containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico," through "a ships-to-rail terminal at the port of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico," then up "the evolving trade corridor" to Kansas City, Mo., where they would have their first inspection.
A Kansas City SmartPort brochure explains further: "Kansas City offers the opportunity for sealed cargo containers to travel to Mexican port cities with virtually no border delays."
A key purpose of the project is to take jobs away from U.S. longshoremen in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., who earn $140,000 a year, and replace them with Mexican laborers at $10,000 a year. U.S. truck drivers and railroad workers will likewise be replaced by Mexicans.
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:51 am Post subject: Arrow Trucking, Baker-Hughes To Cut Jobs
Arrow Trucking, Baker-Hughes To Cut Jobs
February 2009
Tulsa - Layoffs at two companies are affecting 182 workers in northeastern Oklahoma.
It's happening at Arrow Trucking Co. and Baker-Hughes. Tulsa-based Arrow says it laid off 32 clerical and administrative positions.
Baker-Hughes, which is based in Houston, plans to cut 150 positions at plants in Broken Arrow and Claremore.
Officials at both companies blame the economic recession for the cuts.
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0209/591664.html
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The sudden shutdown of Arrow Trucking Company left many drivers stranded, some far away from home, and all of them are looking for work just three days before Christmas.
Arrow Trucking is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but has terminals across the country including here in Houston. It is a 60-year-old family run company.
The maintenance manager was the last one out Tuesday night.
He didn't want to talk to us after what was a very depressing day.
Former Houston Arrow Trucking employee James Cooey did talk to us -- through the tears.
"I usually don't cry," said Cooey. "I ain't cried in years."
Cooey is still trying to grasp what happened. On Monday the fleet manager had a job, now he doesn't, but he still has a wife and two children to support.
"You go tell that beautiful little girl you can't give her everything she wants no more," he said.
Employees told us they were told Arrow Trucking was suspending operations. There would be no benefit packages, and trucks and trailers would be repossessed. Hundreds of drivers all across North America were told to leave their trucks where they were. The timing is the worst part.
"3 days before Christmas and you get the door slammed in your face. Nothing I can do than try to find another job," said truck driver Leroy Sam.
Employees say the company have offered no explanation.
James Cooey says he has lost his holiday spirit.
"What holiday?" he said. "We lost our jobs three days before Christmas."
Employees say about 100 workers lost their jobs in Houston.
The sudden shutdown of Arrow Trucking has left hundreds of others without jobs. Workers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are cleaning out their vehicles. They say in the past, their payroll checks have bounced. Other drivers are stuck in Arizona because their fuel cards from the company don't work. That means they can't pay for the gas to drive their semis. Family members of drivers say those drivers are trying to sell anything they can just to return home.
Arrow Trucking's website says it has been in business since 1948 and that it runs a fleet of 1,400 tractors and over 3,000 trailers operating throughout the United States and in Canada and Mexico. The company is also described as one of the country's largest and most financially sound flatbed motor carriers. That information has since been removed from its website.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7184543
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Reports from OKLAHOMA, ILLINOIS, CALIFORNIA say truck traffic wayyyyy down.
Thats how FOOD gets to our grocery.
Please pay attention there and post here in my forum
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Thank you very much for this update - this is huge(California being the biggest state in the union, and OK is just right north of the 2nd biggest state of Texas).
Will definitely post something if I hear anything. Where would be the best place of news on this?
If I knew I'd post it. I am gathering personal testimonies.
January is a VERY SLOW month for trucking historicly.
Fuel trucks are seen of course! Thank GOD!
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Here is an Email I got Jan 10, 2010
If it doesn't pick up by March then really worry.
Slowest trucking months are Jan/Feb and July.
My family is in trucking industry and hubby is in RR (rail).
This is a natural cycle of industry.
It will be the food shortages due to drought and the frigid temps freezing the citrus crops,
the dollar collapsing and international companies no longer extending credit to our shippers.
Now that is what I'd be concerned about. We shall see by this summer but it seems we have been in the waiting game but when it crashes it will be sudden and without real warning
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:27 pm Post subject: Truckin' the NAFTA highway
Truckin' the NAFTA highway
Mexican truck issue
The American people, and to some extent, the Mexican truckers will be the losers when this program goes through. And I don’t doubt it will go through simply because the public will never understand the issue well enough to prevent being misled by special interests. And, there are plenty of special interests involved here. For their part, CANACAR (the Mexican equivalent of the ATA) has worked against this authorization since its inception because they know it will impinge upon their freight contracts and their wages. This issue is complex enough that it will be posted in two parts:
The author tries to be fair but he's only been given a small part of the story. Although government bureaucrats and 'officials' swear that Mexican trucks meet the requirements, they don’t. Mexico has no real system of driver training, licensing, drug testing, driver physical requirements, safety inspection, cargo securement, hazmat protection, etc. Mexico’s brake standards – one of the most important of safety items - wont begin to match our standards. They have no maximum hours on duty, other than a supposed national limit of 8 hours work for every worker and no universally required logbooks. In typical third-world fashion, Mexico gets freebies from US-based 'interested parties' who do all the work to set up the systems - and then Mexico wont bother to even follow the procedures. It’s all lip service. This has been going on for nearly twenty years. US carriers have paid out lots of bucks to set up inspection and preventative maintenance systems in Mexico because they want those trucks to roll. Mexico just holds out their hands for more freebies.
Case in point: The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has a nationwide system of random inspection of large trucks and buses. Their inspections are stringent and thorough. They tried to set up a three-country system of inspections that were identical. With Canada, cooperation was no problem. Inspectors know what was expected and follow the rules for inspections completely. Mexican inspector candidates listened politely then asked, “How much to you usually charge to give the sticker?” Immediately, they reverted to the system of bribery that the average Mexican citizen uses to get around onerous regulations. Obviously, the CVSA system will be totally worthless in Mexico for Mexican-domiciled rigs simply because the typical Mexican government official psyche is geared toward a completely different interpretation of the word, ‘compliance’.
Every year, the U.S. and Canada engage in a three-day blitz of randomly inspecting trucks to uncover safety and legality issues that have slipped through the cracks. Last year, Mexico said they participated and then couldn’t come up with any figures for quite some time. When they did release official figures, their record of violations was far below what the representatives of the other two countries found-highly suspect. This year, they didn’t participate at all!
La Mordita is alive and well in Mexican trucking and so are drugs. It’s no surprise, if you keep up with the border news to see a truck or two a week busted at the border for drugs and illegal entrants. I don’t suggest that the Mexican government as a whole supports the bribery system. I do suggest, however, that the system is ingrained deeply enough that lip service to regulation alone will never root it out. Last week, there was a Mexican driver who got caught with over 120 pounds of meth in his reefer unit coming in at Campo. It’s a regular ongoing thing. I also personally know of drivers who have found at delivery that the trailer they picked up at the Mexican border contained drugs of which they had no knowledge. This is an extremely dangerous position for a driver to be in; not knowing may get them a huge federal prison sentence. Or killed. So much for ‘trusted carriers’ and inspection at the border.
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