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Title: A Few Notes On Trump's Pick Of Swamp-Dweller Neocon "Elaine Chao" As Head Of Dept. Of Transportation, From A Real (Non-PC) Trucker
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URL Source: http://libertyfight.com/2016/elaine-chao.html
Published: Nov 30, 2016
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Post Date: 2016-11-30 16:33:37 by Artisan
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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elaine Chao to be his Secretary of Transportation, the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Chao served as President George W. Bush's Secretary of Labor for Bush's full 8- year presidency. Chao is married to neocon Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. I have some comments on this, as a trucker, business owner and someone who is literally affected by all the absurd edicts of the DOT every day. If you"re politically-correct or easily offended, I'm warning you, leave now. This is directed also to those in the so-called "alt- right" who see Trump as their knight in shining armor who will fight for the white middle class and also to the other breathless fanboys who are acting like mesmerized 7th grade girls. Some Bush crony DC insider will now replace the other woman Obama had as head of DOT. Is it fathomable to have a man run DOT, maybe even a white man, perhaps someone who actually knows something about trucking or someone who has worked in trucking? Here's a radical idea, how about we get rid of the DOT, this behemoth of a useless agency in the first place, along with the Dept. Of Education, DEA, ATF, IRS, etc.? No, he picks a Chinese woman Bush crony who's married to a neocon zionist. "Drain the swamp"? Yeah, sure. Trump's fanboys won't notice or care about stuff like this, maybe they don't actually run businesses? They're hopeless and borderline retarded. By the way I have reported extensively on Obama's disastrous DOT and the horrible clueless dingbat woman be he had running the place, Anne Ferro, such as this one: FMCSA Administrator describes "smack in the face" & "much clearer view" after riding in an actual big rig for 2 days. It's easy and tempting to get caught up in the political hope and hoopla, I myself am guilty of this, especially when Trump gave great speeches such as this youtu.be/9oNCNrDqwnA All I can say is I'm glad I didn't vote. The sad part about this appointment of the neocon bush chink is that this kind of shit affects real people. Just in the past few years Obama's picks for DOT have had very real effects on the daily lives of truckers. All their new rules are annoying, unnecessary and counterproductive, inefficient and monetarily damaging. Rules about the 34 hour restart. The worst is a new mandatory half hour break before 8 hours in your shift. Why in all of history was tbis not needed but now is? And a new, upcoming rule on mandated electronic logs. I'll give you a real horrible example of those two rules in one. So I'm forced to take a federally mandated half hour break even though I'm not tired, there are already rules limiting drive hours. But papa fed insists I need to stop for nothing. So I start looking for a place to park. Rest area, full. Trucks parked every which way, blocking the thoroughfare. I navigate my way around the disaster of the rest area and get the hell out of there. That's already taken almost 15 minutes but there was no place to park, cause it's 3AM and there are no parking spots available at that time. Park on the ramp of the rest area maybe, to comply with papa fed? No, papa state trooper will give you a $200+ ticket for that. I keep driving, next is a Loves truck stop. Oh wow, guess what? It's also full. Get out of there and back on the freeway, another approx 20 minutes lost but still hasn't counted as a break because I haven't stopped, parked, or left the front seat. [Yeah I bet you didn't know that you aren't literally allowed to sit in the front seat of your truck during your break, or that would be considered "on duty."] OK, now time is running short, I have only 1 hour 32 minutes left before the E-log gongs and tells me I am violating the half hour break rule. So I find a TA truck stop. Wow, guess what? No parking! Cute! DO YOU SEE HOW THESE INSANE FED MFERS FUCK WITH PEOPLE'S LIVES WITH THEIR INSANE OBAMA/BUSH/CHINK CONTROL FREAK RULES? I WASN'T TIRED BEFORE BUT THIS BULLSHIT IS MAKING ME TIRED AND IRRITATED! I JUST WANT TO DRIVE, DELIVER THIS CHINESE MANUFACTURED SHIT TO THE CONSIGNEE AND GET PAID! BUT NOOO! So part of the truck stop is a muddy dirt field with giant mud/ice filled holes. I am going to try to navigate this shit in the dark. Holy shit, I nearly got stuck but made it into a "spot". I sit in the back and wait until the ELog shows a half hour has gone by. Ok, so it resets my available driving time and now I have 5:38 remaining [5 hours 38 minutes.]. Happy and overjoyed that I got that mandated PapaGov 30 minute break accomplished, I start driving, but then notice that the qualcomm now says 1 hour 20 minutes left on my 14 hour clock! WTF? It didn't even register the half hour break I just took?? What happened to the 5:38 it said before, after I finished my papa FED break?? I now have to find yet another place to stop to ask the E-log department why my papa federally mandated electronic log originally noted my papa federally mandated half hour break, but once I started driving again, it reverted to as if I never took my break. I look at the log and it says I only stopped for 26 minutes. By the way, if you wondered where I am now, I am parked in line in the fuel island of yet another truck stop, because remember, there is no parking, and I have to keep moving as trucks go through the lane. Note that the log, which had previously listed 30 minutes off, would not have, and could not have, reset my drive time to the proper 5 hours and 38 minutes remaining if I had not stopped for 30 full minutes. I did indeed stop for a half hour. The E-log department responds... by tbe way it's very nice that I have an E-log department, much less one that works 24 hours a day at 3am. [Do you think the small businwas owner will have this when they're forced to comply with the new rule?] The E-log person replies and says, yeah, sorry, we see this problem quite often. The driver takes their DOT mandated half hour break and then starts driving after their break is completed, but then it shows that they didn't stay a full 30 minutes. It is a GLITCH, And so we cannot change the (incorrect and fraudulent) 26 minutes to a half hour. (Even though we know tnat you were stopped for half hour.) So, sweetheart, you will have to TAKE YOUR HALF HOUR BREAK ALL OVER AGAIN. After all, you don't want to, and can't, drive without taking your half hour papa fed break. The papa fed E-log machine wouldn't even allow it anyway! Why, that'd probably be 85 CSA points and an out of service, maybe even jail time, boy! But yeah, I'm sure Elaine chow or whatever the fuck this swamp dweller neocons name is will give a shit or even have a clue whatTF I am talking about!! F all these MFers!!!!! Thanks for listening, this was fun. :-) Disclaimer: Anyone offended by my satirical use of the word "chink," or the dreaded F-word, or my 'mysoginistic,' 'patriarchal' view that men should do men's jobs, please get a grip. By the way, I have a trucking website, here: DontWakeMeUp.org . 
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