They will just let unlicensed emigrants drive while requiring citizens to spent several grand to go to school or sign up for a contract to drive for x company for a year.

I thought it was a requirement to be able to read and speak English to drive a semi but I have been proven wrong with some of the drivers coming into work lately.

Rat_pack, you a railroad man?????????

Providence Farm, Americans are getting out of it because of over regulation and lack of services. On my trip to East Bethel I went past 7 different locations that had truckstops 35 years ago and now do not. Instead there were pilots loves and a couple flying j's.

If this train strike happens it will be declared an emergency. Just like other emergencies hours of service and weight limits will be exempted. There will be money to be made. If there is money to be made it will happen. Just because you see freight wagons being herded by incompetent iranians or whatever doesn't mean there are not Americans with the skill to do the job right

About 3.1 trucks per rail car, the exception being Shipping Peanuts, then the advantage goes to trucks.

Danny, no I am not. Obviously we need trucking, but please tell me how trucks move big volumes of anything across the country more efficiently than trains? And don't say on the pavement lol

Railroads move stuff, but they sure don't deliver it.

Thanks Hobbie

No they don't, but they get it to the folks that do

Tentative agreement reached, no strike for now.

Good. I broke an air line. Waiting on a service truck to bring me a part. Sitting on the shoulder of I35. Trucks DID haul 80 percent of the freight not that long ago. We still can. When the truck aint broke

I set the idle at 1000 and let it run so I could leave the lights on. Leak is a bad one. Stopped on the spring brake

Rolling

Drive safe danny! We appreciate you rolling cause it makes buying stuff possible.
No roll >>>> no stuff.
Roll on!

Blessings!
Mark

"On the Road Again" Somebody ought to write a song about that !

I prefer this one……

lol, that song makes me want to pull over and take a nap.

I think he's from Epworth, IA.

Yea buddy lol.

Hold my beer! Watch this ! It is just like driving an APC.

"As a Railway Operations Crewmember, you'll supervise and operate the Army’s sophisticated diesel-electric locomotives that move vital supplies and equipment. You’ll train to perform car coupling and uncoupling operations, to send and receive signals, execute orders from signal towers, switches, and other personnel, and to assure the safe hauling of cargo."