In response to outcry from Republican lawmakers and from members of the trucking industry, Lamont on Wednesday posted a message on his official Twitter account letting truckers know that he’s “fine” if drivers decide to avoid delivering goods to his state.
The House of Representatives passed the truck mileage tax and voted to exempt the heaviest trucks on the road – dairy trucks – from paying the tax.
Those trucks operate at 100,000 pounds, while the limit for all other trucks is 80,000 pounds. This just goes to show that the truck mileage tax is not actually about damage to the roads, it’s just about money.
Lighter-weight trucks will be subsidizing heavier trucks that will be exempt from the tax.
Isn't this the state that recently voted, or is considering voting, to declare themselves a racist state? And they exempted Dairy trucks. Must have a huge dairy industry in the state. So go around them. Build crossdocks just across the state line and make all deliveries in hybrids and all electric vehicles. He's like Bidet. No one will acknowledge voting for him now.
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ReplyDeleteDoes this governor realize how many things are delivered by truck? His state would shut down in a few days if they stopped delivering goods there.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that two interstates go through Connecticut that are major routes, I-95 and I-84. One would have to go up I-87 in New York State to Albany, then travel east on I-90 to drive into Massachusetts, and from there to access Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. T diversion takes an extra couple of hours and plenty of miles. This Lamont crumb is also the one who tried to put a tax on trucks traversing I-684 when it goes through Greenwich, CT for a whopping one mile. The rest of I-684 is in New York State emanating from I-287 just east of White Plains, NY and going north to I-84 where, if one turns east one is entering Danbury, CT! He needs to get lost and never return.
ReplyDeletetruckers could be the most powerful group of people in the nation if they would stick together.
ReplyDeleteif every truck simply stopped driving in a particular state or congressional district, no gasoline, no food, no medicine, no UPS, no FedEx packages, no cement, no dumptrucks, no trucks at ALL moving, those jackass politicians would change their mind in a flash.
@Unknown. No, actually the Connecticut State Senate voted to declare racism a public health crisis.
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I don't understand how they connect trucking to the supply of drinking water... which is a city service, or is supplied by most people's wells.
DeleteMaybe for the chemicals to treat the drinking water for the city water departments. I wondered about that too.
DeleteThe city I live in Pueblo, Colorado is out of gas. Why? Because of a shortage of hazmat CDL tanker drivers. And of course everyone panicked and when stations do get gas sell out before end of day.
ReplyDeleteGo ahead and snub truck drivers and find out how quick shortages start up. Kinda nice that I converted my 7.3 powerstroke to run on fryer oil years ago.
https://www.fox21news.com/uncategorized/truck-driver-shortage-leads-to-gas-hunt-in-canon-city-pueblo/
there wouldn't be a shortage if drivers were offered good pay, instead of poverty wages, and that's a fact. Many people are capable of driving and getting a cdl, or a hazmat cert is only a matter of getting the training. If the trucking industry would smarten up, and just train it's drivers, or anyone that wanted to join as a driver, there'd be less reports of shortages, which seem to be over exaggerated, because there are only a shortage of desperate people who will live paycheck to paycheck, day to day only a step away from homeless because the corporation won't pay a decent hourly wage. Inflation has disconnected home ownership from high school grads, and anyone making less than 20 an hour is never going to feel like they will ever be able to afford a house, a retirement, or the smallest of medical bills.
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