Here's a story/photo of a Texas trucker who was burned beyond recognition last night on the PA/Ohio line. http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/toll/booth/crash/20000524/paes101?r=/photo/ap/000524/11/toll-booth-crash
How come the pay of roughnecks and roustabouts has dropped to between $7.50 and $11.50 an hour in Texas & OK?
Tom
jf noonan wrote:
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Tom Lehman wrote:
>
> > Mike---Nader knows cars; your talking about a guy who could
> > get under the hood and fix it.
>
> Really? I'd always read that he never has owned a car. Pretty
> weird to develop such an affinity for getting all greasy w/o
> actually owning one.
>
> > Have you ever seen a passenger car that has been hit by a
> > tractor trailer? I've seen state police crusiers flattened.
> > And the Clinton-Gore team must let untrained, untested
> > drivers who can't speak/ read/write English loose on the
> > American highways.(they have a NAFTA treaty obligation to do
> > so). You got bigger problems out there than suv's. I just
> > saw a report a few days ago where a non-english
> > speaking/reading/writing driver flipped a big rig in West
> > Virginia. So there here...
>
> Hmm -- Americans go to Europe and rent cars all the time.
> Reading/ writing / speaking English doesn't seem to have much to
> do with driving. Haven't you noticed all those international
> traffic symbols? I bet no Real American has ever rolled a rig
> in WVa, eh?
>
> > These little disposable cafe cars(and they are throw away
> > cars that really can't be repaired) that Gore is so enamored
> > of are death traps.
>
> Really? I have a 1988 Ford Festiva, definitely the prototypical
> "little disposable cafe" car, and it has 193,000 miles on it.
> Runs good too. Gets about 40 MPG. I've had no trouble fixing
> or having fixed anything on it except the AC which turns out to
> be dealer installed. It is only a death trap if some yuppie
> scum talking on a cell phone rams into you with the cattle card
> on the front of their SAV that has never seen anything but
> pavement but has 4WD for some stupid reason anyway.
>
> --
>
> Joseph Noonan
> Houston, TX
> jfn1 at msc.com