One Man Fight to Save the Expedited Trucking Industry

scottm4211 · Jun 14, 2015

tumbleweeds said:
I wish we had more Xiggi's on the road. Level headed vanners are truly a rare breed. "Few suffer the slings and arrows" with such dignity and grace. Davekc is another example to follow.

I like to think of him as an ambassador.

Windsor · Jun 15, 2015

Who the hell is Xiggi??? And the ambassadors should have term limits. My vote is for Wambat!

mjmsprt40 · Jun 15, 2015

Windsor said:
Who the hell is Xiggi??? And the ambassadors should have term limits. My vote is for Wambat!

You've been here awhile-- and you don't know who Xiggi is?? Where HAVE you been?

aquitted · Jun 15, 2015

You mean Wombat, I think he got fired.

Windsor · Jun 15, 2015

I meant wham-bat

Windsor · Jun 15, 2015

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aquitted · Jun 16, 2015

Windsor said:
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O.k I need P.R.s puke button on that one

Slo-Ride · Jun 16, 2015

Moot said:
I can see both!
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I can't see thru the trees. All I see is a portal. And it needs to be blown up asap. Anyone in the area?

aquitted · Jun 16, 2015

Slo-Ride said:
I can't see thru the trees. All I see is a portal. And it needs to be blown up asap. Anyone in the area?

Slo-Ride take it easy.....Bro!

Slo-Ride · Jun 16, 2015

aquitted said:
Slo-Ride take it easy.....Bro!

I cant ,,Google has me hooked and with the Anomaly coming this Saturday I would almost take a load into Wisconsin if I felt the carrier would find freight afterwards to join upwards of 15,000 others from around the world to participate this Saturday..

ATeam · Jun 16, 2015

jelliott said:
Lawyers will try and drag everyone they can into it. They could argue the software enabled illegal activity. Would they win....???

When a murderer shoots an innocent person, it is the murderer who is prosecuted, not the gun manufacturer. When a drunk kills an innocent person, it is the drunk they go after, not the car dealer who sold the drunk the car.

jelliott · Jun 16, 2015

ATeam said:
When a murderer shoots an innocent person, it is the murderer who is prosecuted, not the gun manufacturer. When a drunk kills an innocent person, it is the drunk they go after, not the car dealer who sold the drunk the car.

I am not sure that is true. If the dealer sells a gun to an unlicensed person????? Sell software and facilitate the brokerage transactions to an unlicensed broker.....yes, you would have exposure. If we give a load to an improperly insured carrier do we have liability in the event of an accident...yes we do. It's called negligent hiring.... a lot of cases for big money out there right now.

Ragman · Jun 16, 2015

aquitted said:
O.k I need P.R.s puke button on that one

Turtle · Jun 16, 2015

Gun manufacturers aren't prosecuted, but they are sued in civil court. And in drunk driving, the bartender who sold the drinks can be criminally liable.

deadhead · Jun 16, 2015

Read, Logistics Management,Feb 14,2014 By Mike Regan, Stop the Russian Roulette.Its real clear.

jelliott · Jun 16, 2015

deadhead said:
Read, Logistics Management,Feb 14,2014 By Mike Regan, Stop the Russian Roulette.Its real clear.

http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/stop_playing_russian_roulette_with_trucks

deadhead · Jun 16, 2015

While your at it Google, Russian Truckers in America,watch a few Utube videos and read a few stories about of things happening you may or may not be aware of.I found the ones about the russian drivers that are missing after loaded with A&E loads.No more loads no more drivers! Now how did they get those loads? The state examiner getting cash for CDLs',don't do the crime if you can't do the time.Or the one about the guys 6yr old reading them the questions english to russian on the test.Must have been an open book test! Ask yourself do we really have anything to worry about,soon they just blend right in we all one big happy family.

littlejoe · Jun 17, 2015

usafk9 said:
No we're not "in this together". This is business, pure and simple.

You want solidarity? Join a labor union.

Sorry if that's cold and hard, but if it comes down to my family or yours getting groceries, I'll be sharpening my knife.

I have been part of 4 different unions and not a damned one of them helped me keep my job ....

Take that " union solidarity" noise and forget about it

ATeam · Jun 17, 2015

Turtle said:
Gun manufacturers aren't prosecuted, but they are sued in civil court. And in drunk driving, the bartender who sold the drinks can be criminally liable.

In my point above, I distinguished between the tool and the use of it. A gun, or a car, or a software program by itself is a thing. People do not prosecute or sue things. They prosecute or sue people who inappropriately possess the things in question or use them for illegal ends. A carrier may very well indeed be tagged with negligent hiring when it used a certain software program to hire an uninsured truck that caused a bad wreck but that is on the carrier, not on the software or the company that made the software. The software did not do wrong in such a case, the carrier did.

jelliott · Jun 17, 2015

I think you are wrong. Take for instance craigslist. Did the govt come after them for turning a blind eye to illegal "transactions"? If the software company is paid on a transactional basis (as many cloud based SAS systems are) then they profited by the transaction. Completely open to lawsuits.....