With All Due Respect

Today's Thoughts By Jeff Head 11/08/12 With All Due Respect

So we go on, the elections being over and now we know what and who we are going to be dealing with. Nothing has changed except for the fact that now we have a FMCSA that is headed up by an administration that has no fear of being tossed out at the end of the next election cycle. So where does that leave us as safe and legal truckers.

Well we know from past experience that they plan on regulating the trucking industry until not one accident will ever happen between a car and a truck. Ok,ok, I know, they backed up on that line of thinking. At least they said they did but we all know the fact that the last four years have shown us that they simply do not mind how many decent drivers they shut down as long as they shut someone down so that they can say they are doing their jobs.

When I first started running safe and legal, you could actually make a profit by doing so. They way this country is now I am not so sure that you can do it anymore. My own personal experience has left me with less and less cash to work with. More and more I find myself wondering why I keep turning down loads that I know will buy me a tire or fix my brakes. The more the FMCSA piles on us trying to force all ready safe drivers to be safe, the less I am able to make enough profit to do so. The end result of this little game they insist on playing is more and more safe and legal drivers are being forced out of the industry. We are being starved out by the very entity that is supposed to be making the highways safer.

When a company does this to you, starve you out that is, there is not much that can be done. But when your country does this to you, there are options. One could spend years and years and thousands upon thousands of dollars trying to fight this through the legal system. Perhaps waiting for elections to fix things might be an answer. As many just found out thought, this will never happen in time now to save the drivers that managed to hold on this long. Waiting for a better political environment friendly to small business is now a good two years out if not four.

What is left out there for options, not much as far as I can see? Just one comes to mind and it was given to us by our forefathers. They knew that one day a tyrannical government would once again raise its ugly head in our country. A FMCSA that regulates to the point that a driver cannot survive under their rules is nothing short of tyranny. Face it, no human being can run one hundred percent legal in today’s world. There are just too many rules and regulations to do so. And they keep adding them all the time.

So what to do? I feel it is time that we follow in the footsteps of a proud American that stood up for her rights, Suzanna Gratia Hupp. A woman if you remember that went before Congress and explained what the Second Amendment was for. It is there for the American citizen to protect ourselves from the tyranny of government.

If the FMCSA is going to continue to pile on regulation so thick that it is impossible to run safe and legal and make a reasonable profit, then I say to you that the FMCSA has become a tyrannical arm of the United States Government. Yes, we need to be safe and legal out on that road. But to ham string us to the point that we are starved out of the industry does not meet this goal.   It simply puts us out of business. It forces safe and legal drivers into bankruptcy and leaves only the renegades to run the roads.

So a simple friendly reminder to the FMCSA, if the only possible way for safe and legal drivers to remain out on that highway is to remind you, the government that we have a Second Amendment to protect us from your tyrannical regulations, then I wish to take this time to make this reminder to you. I will do whatever it takes to keep that highway safe. Allowing you, the government the FMCSA to starve out safe and legal drivers is not an option.

Be safe peeps.

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