tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242439673360261416.post7679024425177628565..comments2023-10-28T01:08:17.601-07:00Comments on David Talks/The Berner Monologues: This is a Rogue & Obscene GovernmentDavid Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242439673360261416.post-7426886828516595502010-04-10T21:12:53.979-07:002010-04-10T21:12:53.979-07:00"were being treated like slave labour ...&quo..."were being treated like slave labour ..."<br /><br />"being treated like"? Remember, Sir David, its always best to eschew extraneous verbiage.David in North Burnaby BChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660731947857473298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242439673360261416.post-4565714493813034932010-04-10T15:40:40.136-07:002010-04-10T15:40:40.136-07:00David, I drive a truck for a living. I own the tru...David, I drive a truck for a living. I own the truck and I am faced with a variety of challenges. <br /><br />Ive been doing this since 1973. For all of the 70s and most of the 80s trucking seemed invisible on our roads. Then we deregulated. All of the major trucking companies went out of buisness. CP Transport, Johnston Terminals, Alltrans, Motorways the list goes on and on. <br /><br />The days of a driver starting out in a small truck and slowly moving up to a semi with 600plus horsepower and pulling up to 60,000 plus kgs ended.Today if you can afford about $2500 youve got a class one license. A truck can be had for next to nothing because they have become worthless due to incredible competition. Trucks are now very visible. They are often found on their sides ,in ditches , and crashed all over the interior of BC.<br />The<br /> Federal minister of imigration was on TV and he said that Canada needed to fill thousands of unskilled positions. The next phrase out of his mouth almost made me sick. "Yes we need thousands of truck drivers"<br />Hes right , anyone that wants to drive a truck can and if a lack of training, a lack of inspectors happens to cost a few lives , SO BE IT!. Dead farmworkers are a cost of doing business. Dead and injured people on our roads and highways are a cost of cheap groceries. Cheap building materials , cheap you name it.<br /><br />We have a third world work force and a third world mentality. Its what the country wants. CHEAP labor.<br /><br />Its not just trucking . Next time you get on a plane think about the stiff competition that airlines face. Think how they have had to cut costs. Lay off mechanics. Increase time between scheduled maintenance. Keep older planes in the air longer. Yes its just a cost of doing business.<br /><br />13Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242439673360261416.post-71436171531137081562010-04-10T12:07:45.717-07:002010-04-10T12:07:45.717-07:00Truly appalling human beings. All these assholes m...Truly appalling human beings. All these assholes must have scuttled out from under the same rock. <br /><br />If this is the way the province is evolving,then it's turning into a very disgusting place. <br /><br />How in god's name do we get rid of these evil bastards before they do any more damage?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242439673360261416.post-47415578866432770632010-04-10T11:13:57.669-07:002010-04-10T11:13:57.669-07:00Inspections and inspectors may be down.
But the n...Inspections and inspectors may be down.<br /><br />But the number of folks working in the 'social media' group for said government are way, way, <a href="http://www.publiceyeonline.com/archives/004873.html" rel="nofollow">up</a>.<br /><br /><br />_____<br />And there are actually a number of fine folks that will argue, at the drop of a hat, that this is good thing (see comments to above linked post)<br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.com