HERE IS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.... ABOUT TRUCK DRIVERS AND THE TAXES WE PAY
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Posted:Jul 26, 2008 2:48 am
Last Updated:Jul 26, 2008 6:43 am
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Here is something to think aboout when you talk about truckers and what we have to pay for.....The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), which represents more than 156,000 small-business truckers, believes tolling Interstate 80 is essentially double taxation, unsafe for other roads and not in the best interest of all highway users in Pennsylvania.
Imagine going to a drive-through restaurant, and after having paid at the first window, the second window’s operator says “Oh by the way, while you were between the first and second windows, we used one third of the money you just spent for something else instead of going toward your order, so we need more money for your food.”
That is essentially what’s proposed by adding tolls to federal highways. At first, taxes are collected through user fees and fuel sales for the Highway Trust Fund, which is intended for roads and bridges. But after large diversions of the money collected go to other, non-highway related projects, you are asked to again pay even more with tolls.
This is just one reason why OOIDA representatives and members stood alongside U.S. Rep. John Peterson, R-PA, in speaking out against the tolling of I-80 at the state capitol today.
“Tolling would be an unconscionable burden for small business truckers,” stated Executive Vice President of OOIDA Todd Spencer. “When you factor in that as much as 40 percent of the trust fund goes for things other than highways, you can conclude that trucks pay two thirds of all the money spent on highways and bridges.” Truckers pay taxes other highway users do not, such as user fees and taxes on equipment and tires for their vehicles.
Tolling could also prove to be unsafe as truck drivers choose alternative routes to avoid paying tolls.
“And many indeed will choose to do so, contrary to what toll supporters claim,” added Spencer.
“Truckers have paid for the roads, and they continue to pay for their upkeep. There is no such thing as a free highway,” concluded Spencer.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is the national trade association representing the interests of small-business trucking professionals and professional truck drivers. OOIDA was established in 1973 and is headquartered in the greater Kansas City, MO, area. The Association currently has more than 156,000 members from all 50 states and Canada. Just a parting shot we pay road tax for every state we go thru so why should we pay 2x... thanks Kris and George going to Memphis then to Keller TX see everyone on the way...hooter shoots for all..lol
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hey hey guess what people....
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Posted:Jul 25, 2008 6:10 pm
Last Updated:May 12, 2024 9:17 pm
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we already have a load out of Memphis TN on Monday for Keller Tx damnit wooohooo lets boogie people
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Don't blame truckers
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Posted:Jul 25, 2008 5:34 am
Last Updated:Jul 25, 2008 9:39 am
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The rising costs of food and other goods caused by diesel fuel price hikes should not be laid at the feet of independent truckers.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) wants to emphasize to consumers that often shippers pay higher amounts for shipping when fuel prices are high, but that money doesn’t always trickle down to the person actually paying the for the fuel.
“It’s a stoppage in the flow of transactions creating a heart attack in the system,” said Executive Vice President of OOIDA, Todd Spencer. “It’s an exploitation of shippers, truckers and, ultimately, consumers.”
OOIDA would like congress to enact legislation mandating 100 percent pass through of fuel surcharges and full transparency in those transactions.
“Lawmakers need to know what’s going on in trucking, how devastating this record hike in fuel prices is for 90 percent of the nation’s fleet,” added Spencer.
Recently, the Association has had a number of members express frustration in dealing with the volatile rises in diesel prices, some to the point of wanting to participate in rumored shut downs called for by various individual truckers.
However, OOIDA does not call upon its members to participate in shut downs or strikes because it is a trade association, not a union.
“We do not tell our members what to do, instead, they inform us of what they ARE doing and we support their decisions,” said Spencer.
The association does not know how many of its members will participate.
“There is a disproportionate burden being placed on small business owners who are truck drivers because they depend upon diesel to run their businesses,” said Spencer. “If diesel is the lifeblood of ground transportation, then truckers are the heart. And many are in need of life support.” So understand its not our fault at all write someone heck write to everyone and see what we can do as country... thats all I can say.
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OMG READ THIS ...DAMNIT...Dallas-area tanker driver allegedly stole 1,400 gallons of fuel
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Posted:Jul 25, 2008 5:30 am
Last Updated:Jul 26, 2008 2:41 am
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Private investigators reportedly investigating fuel thefts from an Irving, TX, fuel company followed a tanker driver to his Dallas-area home, where he promptly unloaded the fuel into tanks at the house.
According to the Dallas Morning News, the tanker driver deposited the fuel in Ovilla, TX, and in above-ground tanks outside the Seagoville, TX-area home.
“They had thought there was gas disappearing, so they hired someone to follow his particular truck and saw him unloading it,” Det. H.L. Ratcliff told the Morning News. “Surely he would know that they were going to miss that much gasoline. They’re going to miss 1,400 gallons of gasoline.”
The driver was not immediately identified, the newspaper reported.
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texting behind the wheel in CALI new law?? just maybe read and see
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Posted:Jul 24, 2008 8:44 am
Last Updated:May 12, 2024 9:17 pm
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California Senate acts to ban text messaging for all driversIn California, a bill that would prohibit adults from text messaging while driving is halfway through the statehouse.
The Senate voted 39-31 to approve a bill that was amended to add a provision that would ban so-called “texting” while at the wheel. Sponsored by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, the measure ‒ SB28 ‒ now moves back to the Assembly for consideration of changes.
Pursuit of legislation to limit driver distractions is nothing new for Simitian. He authored the state’s hand-held cell phone restriction that took effect July 1.
Another law that took effect the first of the month makes it illegal for teens younger than 18 to use any type of cell phone, pager, text messaging device or laptop while at the wheel.
Simitian’s latest effort would remove the loophole that allows adults to use hand-held devices to send, receive or read text messages while driving. If approved, it would take effect Jan. 1.
As is the case for violating the new cell phone law, police would be allowed to pull over adults found texting. Violators would face at least $20 fines. Subsequent offenses would result in up to $50 fines.
Efforts to curb the practice of using electronic wireless devices, such as a Blackberry-type device, while driving have picked up steam across the country following the release of a Nationwide Mutual Insurance survey that found one in five drivers texting while driving. Nearly three-quarters of drivers use cell phones.
California, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Washington are the only states that ban all drivers from using hand-held phones. The New Jersey and Washington state laws also prohibit text messaging. Minnesota recently approved its own ban on text messaging.
To view other legislative activities of interest for California in 2008, click here.
‒ By Keith Goble, state legislative editor
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FLORIDA......
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Posted:Jul 24, 2008 3:22 am
Last Updated:May 12, 2024 9:17 pm
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WE ARE LOADING IN POTTSVILLE AR TO FLORIDA.....WOOOOHOOOOOO
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SEX ANYONE??????
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Posted:Jul 19, 2008 9:19 am
Last Updated:Jul 22, 2008 8:53 am
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OK WE ARE THINKING IF WE MEET THE RIGHT PERSON WHILE WE ARE MEBANE NC WE COULD DO SOMETHING..GOING TO BE AT THE PETRO IN MEBANE NC ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON TILL ABOUT 4 AM ON MONDAY THEN WE LOAD OUT OF LEWISTON NC FOR LAWTON OK WITH CHICKEN.....
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Parasite 'turns women into sex kittens'
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Posted:Jul 19, 2008 3:31 am
Last Updated:May 12, 2024 9:17 pm
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READ THIS ...THIS IS WEIRD.......................
A COMMON parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.
About 40 per cent of the world's population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, including about eight million Australians.
Human infection generally occurs when people eat raw or undercooked meat that has cysts containing the parasite, or accidentally ingest some of the parasite's eggs excreted by an infected cat.
The parasite is known to be dangerous to pregnant women as it can cause disability or abortion of the unborn , and can also kill people whose immune systems are weakened.
Until recently it was thought to be an insignificant disease in healthy people, Sydney University of Technology infectious disease researcher Nicky Boulter said, but new research has revealed its mind-altering properties.
"Interestingly, the effect of infection is different between men and women,'' Dr Boulter writes in the latest issue of Australasian Science magazine.
"Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women.
"On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls.
"In short, it can make men behave like alley cats and women behave like sex kittens''.
Dr Boulter said the recent Czech Republic research was not conclusive, but was backed up by animal studies that found infection also changes the behaviour of mice.
The mice were more likely to take risks that increased their chance of being eaten by cats, which would allow the parasite to continue its life cycle.
Rodents treated with drugs that killed the parasites reversed their behaviour, Dr Boulter said.
Another study showed people who were infected but not showing symptoms were 2.7 times more likely than uninfected people to be involved in a car accident as a driver or pedestrian, while other research has linked the parasite to higher incidences of schizophrenia.
"The increasing body of evidence connecting Toxoplasma infection with changes in personality and mental state, combined with the extremely high incidence of human infection in both developing and developed countries, warrants increased government funding and research, in particular to find safe and effective treatments or vaccines,'' Dr Boulter said.
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NFL steps up monitoring of players for gang signs
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Posted:Jul 17, 2008 9:04 am
Last Updated:May 12, 2024 9:17 pm
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NEW YORK (AP)–The NFL is stepping up its monitoring of on-field player activities to ensure that no one is flashing the hand signals of street gangs.
The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that the league had hired experts to look at game tapes and identify players or team officials who might be using suspected gang signals. Violators would be warned and disciplined if the episodes recurred.
League officials said Tuesday that avoiding gang-related activities has long been stressed.
They said the scrutiny was intensified after the shooting death of Denver cornerback Darrent Williams in 2007 after Williams was involved in a dispute with known gang members. Anti-gang information is included in orientation literature and stressed in the annual mandatory league meeting for rookies.
The NFL took further notice after Paul Pierce of the NBA’s Boston Celtics was fined $25,000 in April for what the league said was a “menacing gesture” toward the Atlanta Hawks’ bench. “I 100 percent do not in any way promote gang violence or anything close to it.” Pierce said in a statement. “I am sorry if it was misinterpreted that way at Saturday’s game.”
The Times said that was the precipitating incident for the NFL.
“We were always suspicious that might be happening,” it quoted Mike Pereira, the NFL’s vice president of officiating, as saying of gang-related signals. “But the Paul Pierce thing is what brought it to light. When he was fined … that’s when we said we need to take a look at it and see if we need to be aware of it.”
Most senior NFL officials were at a league outing Tuesday and could not immediately be reached for comment.
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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
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Posted:Jul 17, 2008 8:56 am
Last Updated:May 12, 2024 9:17 pm
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A St. Mary's County man is seeking $200,000 in damages from the owners of an adult "swingers" Web site and three of its customers over the posting of sexually explicit pictures of his wife.
The lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt by Harvey S. Jacobs of Jacobs and Associates in Rockville. Jacobs' , identified in court papers only as T.M., is seeking damages from the owners of www.Local Sexy Swingers.com and three "Doe" users of the site for defamation and false light invasion of privacy.
According to the lawsuit, Jacobs' lives in St. Mary's County and has been married for 22 years. T.M. recently learned that sexually explicit photos of his wife had been posted to adult Web site www.Local Sexy Swingers.com The lawsuit alleges the photos appear as part of the profiles of three users of the site, identified in the lawsuit by their screen names only.
As a result, T.M. claims anyone visiting the site would see his wife's picture and infer the couple condoned swinging. The lawsuit argues that this constitutes defamation and places T.M. in a false light because he is not a "member of the 'swinger' community."
"[Plaintiff's] reputation as a monogamous spouse has been smeared as a 'swinger,'" Jacobs wrote in the lawsuit. The wife is not named in the lawsuit.
Local Sexy Swingers is a Web site that bills itself as "the world's largest sex and swinger personals community." The site is owned by Friendfinder Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., which was acquired by the Penthouse Media Group in December.
Ira Rothken, with the Rothken Law Firm in Novato, Calif., said he felt the Web site would be protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The section protects online companies from being responsible for content posted on their sites.
Rothken pointed to a similar California case in 2002, Carafano v www.Local Sexy Swingers.com In that case, an actress whose personal information was posted to a dating site sued the owners of the site because they allowed the information to be posted. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ultimately ruled in favor of www.Local Sexy Swingers.com and held that the Web site was covered under Section 230.
"[Adult] Friend Finder does not create the content related to the posting, they're just the intermediary," Rothken said. "The cases are legion for not placing liability on dating sites, and I'm confident the court will agree to dismiss the case against [Adult] Friend Finder."
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Reverse Cowgirl Sex Positions
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Posted:Jul 16, 2008 4:41 pm
Last Updated:May 12, 2024 9:17 pm
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Basic Reverse Cowgirl Sex Position:
This position seems to be most popular in porn, and was given the descriptive and funny name “reverse cowgirl”. It is a variation of the woman on top position, but with the woman facing away from her partner, who is lying down.
Variations on the Reverse Cowgirl Position:
If you like the idea of this position, think about how it will be most comfortable for you.
If you’re the “cowgirl” in this scenario, you can either have your legs bent at the knees and have your legs tucked under your thighs, or you can have your feet flat on the bed or floor, and use your leg muscles to move yourself up and down. You can be sitting up, or lean forward which can allow you to use your arms to support your weight and also for moving up and down.
Pros of the Reverse Cowgirl Sex Position:
As with any woman on top position, there is the benefit of having complete control of thrusting, angle, and movement.
Other than that, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of strong following for this position. It does allow for the person on the bottom to have a particularly good view of their partner’s bum, and if you like to see yourself having sex, and have an appropriately placed mirror, the woman on top can see more than if she were lying down.
Cons of the Reverse Cowgirl Sex Position:
One partner is doing most of the work in this position, so you might not consider it completely equitable.
If you like a lot of physical contact with penetration, this isn’t the position for you
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Penis Size??? WHAT IS NORMAL???
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Posted:Jul 16, 2008 4:37 pm
Last Updated:May 12, 2024 9:17 pm
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Penis size is determined entirely by factors out of our control. Yet penis size may be the single greatest cause of anxiety for men young and old. Questions about penis size abound; What’s the average penis size? Can I increase my penis size? Does penis size matter as much as I think it does? Some of these questions have easy answers, most of them don’t.
What can safely be said is that concern about penis size is almost always misguided. Great sex is much more than the sum (or length) of its parts. Hopefully learning more about what researchers and regular folks have to say about penis size may help more men understand that.
What is the average penis size?
Data on what the average penis size is, both in terms of length and girth, as well as an explanation of the problems with measuring penis size and determining global statistics on average penis size.Who cares more about penis size, women or men?
Is bigger always better? Does penis size matter to the general public? Here’s what research tells us about the importance of penis size.
Think your penis is too small?
There are some very simple reasons why most men think their penis is too small, here they are.
Bad penis science: What’s wrong with research on penis size?
One of the reasons that it’s so difficult to find accurate global data on average penis size is that measuring penises is a lot more complicated than you might think. As a result there is a lot of bad research out there on penis size.
How do I measure up?
There is a tendency to compare yourself to others, and if most of your sex education has been from pornography, comparing your penis size to the images you see on your computer screen or TV may not be a good thing. Here’s the real story on how you measure up, and the trouble with comparing penis size.
Myself.... and the Hubby thinks as long as it works and makes me moan its all good
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