Remember the time when railroaders went on strike because they wanted to be treated like pigs?
Because pigs were treated better than railroaders. Pigs were valuable freight and deserved a long rest after being on a train for 12 hours. No similar regulation existed for the people who ran a train…
This will totally fix the diesel price problem. This country is more cooked than the planet itself.
That sounds safe.
Meth inks it will be a very stimulating trip on the interstates.
They’ve just doomed every person in a car on every major interstate.
No worries, we can just fly everywhere. Wait, what’s that, they just put AI in charge of air traffic control? Okay, yeah, we’re doomed.
Well, it’s one way to boost sales on the gas-guzzling, rolling tanks the US auto makers refuse to diversify away from.
Ah yes, because we know Precision Scheduled Railroading with the freight train industry has worked so well, let’s legislate the means by which we can employ less of the already overworked staff under the guise of optimization, when in reality it’s yet another way to funnel even more money towards the top.
Solves medical debt by closing hospitals.
What are we going to fuel these trucks with though
METH and coke.
Truck stop meth.
Sorry, I thought you asked about the drivers.
Just that? I am sure true republicans can afford to do much more for the country, why not 24, or double that, 48! Hail Trump!
He truly is a genius.
Sacrifices (your safety and truckers) must be made in the name of November elections and profits.
Not surprising, apparently no one in the USA gives a damn about traffic safety.
Deregulation because money.
A very rich man hundreds or thousands of miles away accepts the risks to other peoples lives as a great deal.
I’m sure Tracy Morgan has an opinion on this decision
The last 2 links I’ve clicked on I’ve learned that Grizz died and Tracy almost died. Someone tell me Dotcom is doing okay
I read the articles at the time but they didn’t tell me Grizz died, why did you do this to me?
Now I’m sad that he’s dead and that the articles at the time didn’t think he was worth mentioning over a REAL celebrity.
He wasn’t in that crash. Apparently he died a few months ago from kidney disease. A truck crashed into his home in 2024 though, but he wasn’t home.
This does make me feel better, but now I choose to believe he was in a Final Destination plotline.
How is someone supposed to get proper sleep working a sixteen hour day!?
Well, if they don’t eat, shower, take a walk or rest, never clean their clothes, do any chores or have free time, they can still sleep for ~7h after they park the truck and make sure the load is still secured.
That’s totally not slavery!
That’s the cool part. You never could get those things. So don’t think this is anything new.
Source: In my youth, I was dumb enough to drive for a few years, but I was never stupid enough to own one…
I don’t know what kind of driver you were. However, my dad’s been driving for around 30 years and he makes sure to sleep and shower and he does his laundry and everything else like that because all of the truck stops happen to have all of that stuff available to them. In fact, I do IT work now, and I work at a lot of the pilots and flying J’s, and for example, one of the ones I just did in a remote town was fix a shower door so that way it made sure to lock and unlock properly with the code. That being said, I can guarantee fucking t. He’s going to be extremely pissed if they try to force him to drive 16 hours a day.
I started before that. I did some LTL and OTR driving. You could find showers and some washing machines, if they were working, to wash your clothes along the interstates, but get off the road any distance and that all went away. I always loved getting to Ohio because their wayside rest stops had free showers for truck drivers. A welcome relief from paying $5 to $8 dollars to take a shower. If you wanted a free shower, you had to buy enough fuel for that.
He might be pissed now about driving 16 hours, but I can guarantee that he did drive those hours at times back in the day.
Sorry wrong place to reply.
Carry on please!
Lol. The U.S. is on a suicide speedrun.
As a non-American, I find it baffling and hilarious that many Americans are proud to work 80 hours a week. It’s not a flex. They’d regret having done so when they become too frail and forgetful at the old age. And all the money they saved and pension being collected will be spent on healthcare and medication instead.
They did not even live their life when they were young and they won’t even enjoy the remainder.
Didn’t live when was young. Can confirm.
apparently in academia, they think its a flex for PI to be working that much, granted the competitive to be hired at 4-year is pretty high.
They’re fucking dumb
Propagandized == Dumb. No one is immune to propaganda, but propaganda can be overcome.
The dumber the better propaganda works. And Americans are dumb as shit. Don’t believe me, look who is president for the second time
Americans are no dumber than any other demographic. They have, however, been subject to a century-long propaganda campaign to instill subservience to capitalist ideology while those same capitalists have been dismantling any educational system or media outlet that might break that subservience.
Beware of the “Americans dumb” rhetoric, because a false sense of superiority is the exact thing that led Americans to accept the propaganda. It can happen to your country, too (and probably is happening, to be real).
50% of US citizens read at 5th grade level or lower. This doesn’t sound too terrible until you remember that those tests are actually comprehension tests. Majority of us have less comprehensive abilities than we expect out of children, and this was before the “ai” boom, you know it’s gotten exponentially worse already and will continue to decline at an ever accelerating pace. We genuinely are some of the dumbest motherfuckers our species has to offer.
I guess I’m distinguishing between innately dumb and dumb-by-design. Poor reading comprehension is a result of the intentional dismantling of our education system. It’s not the people’s fault, it’s the capitalists.
Look around the world. Many corrupt and evil people are taking hold of power.
Just like the Japanese and Chinese right?
Chinese have legally defined retirement ages close to Europe, so even if they have high working hours comparable to the US at least they don’t have to work until death.
Jokes on you, I’m young(ish) and not enjoying it already. Haven’t been enjoying it since about 2002.
We don’t even have pensions.
Nah, it’s been a marathon this is just that last sprint before the finish.
The finish line is a cliff/societal collapse.
