The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, insurance experts, INDOT and the Indiana State Police reveal that “everybody’s cool with it,” with eliminating the double standard speed limits, and making one speed limit for cargo trucking and commuters
The facts are, trucks have technological advanced safety features now, compared to the trucks that were common when the speed limits were established.... decades ago.
Similarly, the cars today, are mostly disc brake equipped, and anti lock brake too, with radials instead of bias plies, and I will go out on a limb and state that imho, they have better steering and suspension too.
Mike Rowe's podcast talks about a trucking issue this week - California's AB5 and how about 70,000 owner-operators will not be able to run their own businesses in CA because of this law. I found it interesting when they were talking about the ports in CA and how they are so tightly run by the unions. I wonder how much of our current supply chain issues were made worse because of union rules.
ReplyDeletethe Ballad Of Odom, I was listening to it yesterday too. Land of the free, liberty for all... didn't last very long. And yeah, the unions (as I posted about on Labor Day some years ago) have had a hell of a tough challenge, and they stood up to tanks, right there in California. It's clear that they must protect jobs, and we've seen that jobs are just expendable casualties in the corporate world, Twitter laid off 20k? Google another 10k? So I get it, no tech allowed that eliminates a job, but that is the key to increasing the tech and efficiency, just create some jobs... and no one making over 100k a year in the union, or the port, or the state of California - can figure out how to be motivated to accomplish that small task. Not with all the MBA's they have framed on their office walls.
DeleteI wish MIke Rowe would get elected governor or president. No one is as qualified to be the people's choice as he is.
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