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and drive forward together. Hello, everybody.
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Welcome, Welcome down here in the underground.
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I'm Trucker Mouth and this is the roadshow down here giving
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veterans a voice. Today we're on the Roadshow.
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We discuss issues in American trucking industry, how it
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affects America and American trucking industry as a whole.
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OK, before we get started, I want to point out the point I've
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been opening up my show with this last couple times.
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So in 2023, the Veteran Improvement Commercial Driver's
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Licensing Act was implemented. That means that veterans exiting
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the military with their TI benefits can use them to go to
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regulatory approved truck driving schools to get their
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their Class A license and drive the big truck, the large car you
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know, do the you know Americans was my American.
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It was my dream to be a complete owner operator and cowboy around
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and yeah so but but looking into it anymore with all everything
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they want you to pay and things keep going up.
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I don't know if that'd be a good idea to do that.
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You'd really have to be pretty savvy on on your money.
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So truckers pay enough into the tax system as Congress works for
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long term solutions to make the highway trust fund sustainable.
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Now the highway trust fund is a that's that's the funded builds
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roads, fixes roads, you know, puts guard rails up, fixes
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potholes, everything. It all comes down to the highway
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trust fund and a lot of things contribute to that.
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But they're trying to they're trying to Jack that up so that,
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you know, more safer roads out there and more passable roads
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with more as the population keeps increasing.
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All right, so you know, here I'm going to point out because
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because they keep coming out with new fees this and that on a
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truck. I'm point, I'm just going to
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point out some of the things that that the the transportation
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industry has has to already pay for.
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And so we're going to look at along with the cost of operating
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a truck, a trucking company and maintenance on the vehicle.
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So you know, it's just like on your car, you know, everything
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you got to do with your car, they got to do with these
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trucks, but on a large scale and a very more expensive, very more
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expensive take on it. So you know, there's a lot, you
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know, you got your tires just like your car, you got tires and
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they're wearable parts. And you know, a car tire
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anymore, I mean, just say an SUV, you can go like what, 2 or
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$50 a tire, whereas a truck tire is $800,000 enough depending on
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what, what you're getting, I guess.
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And you've got a whole lot of tires on an 18 Wheeler, you
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know, to, to, to pay for, you know, and especially when it
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comes to inspection, you know, that's one of the big things
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they're hit hard on when these trucks is inspections and
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they're always hit hard on tires.
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So you're always buying tires and plus they're blowing out and
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you're, and you're getting flats with obstacles in the road.
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Your inspection, everything goes with that.
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And as you're as you're putting a lot of models on your tractor,
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you know, you got things up front on the front end there
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that are, they're getting really, really war like, you
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know, your your stabilization bar, your, your you got your,
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you got your tie rod ends, all that stuff's wearable parts.
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And you know, you, you, you, that's everything do with
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inspection every year. And then not just that, you
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know, not just the cost of it to make it, you got to make it
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safe. You know, you got to be safe out
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there, man. Something happens, something
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happens out there with one of them, You're done.
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And and then you're not only your life in your hands, but
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other people's. You got your fuel and your
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death. So fuel these tanks.
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They got 303 hundred gallon tanks, two of them usually on a
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on a large car, a good one. So you're going to fill up and
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just say you do a fill up and foul hard to say 500 gallons at
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what 469 a gallon. Do the math on that one crisis,
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the $2000 just to just to fill your truck up.
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Of course you got your food out there, which is a big cost.
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You got to eat, you know, and you're not going to always be,
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you know, hitting off that that Buff air truck stop man.
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You're going to be treat yourself a steak as I did.
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I went one place I got I was living in that Home Depot
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account. Anything that was ever around
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there was an Applebee's other than fast food.
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Like I started eating fast food. So I went up to the steak place
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up on the hill and I tried to keep it cheap.
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I tried to keep it cheap And I, I sat up there, you know, I was
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done for. Dad drank a couple beers and I
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ate a small steak. It was a cheap steak.
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About 10 beers later, I got the big steak.
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How you like me now and that meal.
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I mean, I spent like 60 bucks up here a day.
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Does he? Well, that's my own fault, but I
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don't know, like steak, I picked it out and everything I took
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about you got your toes. Toes every goddamn where.
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You know, New York, I mean, all your big cities got tolls,
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bridges, tunnels, all that. All them tolls keep going up.
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Got that now I guess there's an owner operator.
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He could claim all that at the end of the year.
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Nevertheless, you've got to fork it out now.
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Well, you got your easy pass fund.
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I don't know. I see I don't have to deal with
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it. I never was.
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I never got to my dream. I never got to do it now.
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I never will now because I don't have a CDL on there.
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Trucker mount never get ACDL guy.
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Trucker mount got a life time suspension on this CDL because
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he's terrible person. So hey, you got anything to do
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with your engine? Keep up.
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Just like your car. You got, you got you know, you
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got you got oil changes this and that.
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You know all everything, everything to do with your with
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your car. You have to do the truck, but on
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a larger scale and a more expensive scale, that's for
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sure. That's some of these dudes.
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They got their own garage at home where they pull in and they
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do all their own maintenance. Now that's your real savvy
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trucker. I mean, I like I said, I never
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got to that point and I never will.
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But looking into all what they pay out, I mean, you know, these
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people, I'm going to bring this up later on, give up everything
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for this job. They give up everything, give
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everything to be on the road to make that money.
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You're away from your family. You know, if you have children,
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all that you're away from that and, and, and you're out there
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and it's tough, man, it, it's it's tough out there.
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And you know, they shouldn't be treated like, you know, like
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they're you're not. I wasn't treated very well
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because you got a million trucks going into these places and they
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they don't, they don't like truck drivers, trucks, trucks
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coming and they got to work. So they're trying to make the
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trucking industry pay more. That's why I'm doing this
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segment here on high costs, running on the, that's why I'm
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doing this segment just to point out, all righty, what they got
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to pay out the transportation, the transportation industry has
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to pay out. OK, now we got all your tags and
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all that and I researched this. First of all, you got your IPG
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tag, which is the supposed to be an international registration
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plan, every truck and every tag every year.
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So on top of your inspections and all that, you got to get
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these tags, these stickers. Now you don't see a lot of the
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trucks anymore rolling stickers on the side.
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I don't know what this IPG tags, which is supposed to be
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International British Racing Plan, I'm not real sure what
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that is, but you got, they got to pay for it says IPG tags.
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I did the research on this IPG tags.
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There it is. They have to pay for it and you
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got your federal excise tax on all new purchases based on the
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purchase price with new tractors pushing over $200,000 and
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trailers are the same way. They're way up there now.
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So this federal excise tax you got to pay on everything new.
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And I'm I'm sure that the your average consumer out there has
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to do it too. I imagine they can't just put
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that on truckers. Imagine we're all paying that on
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new things. But you know, if they pay the
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federal excise tax on every new tire, there's 18 tires on an 18
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Wheeler and always wearing out and blowing out like we
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discussed earlier. So there you got there, you got
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that, which like I said, I think your average consumer pays that
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also. OK, got your fuel tax, got your
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fuel tax based on fuel mileage. Every state across the country,
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no matter where, no matter where you fuel in that state, you've
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got to pay the same fuel tax. So if it's if it's you go you're
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100 miles from somewhere, it's $0.10 cheaper.
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Or is it? It's the cheapest place around.
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You're still paying the highest fuel tax because no matter where
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where in the state you fuel is, is That's why these these
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truckers try, they try to get through States and have high
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that I have have high fuel, fuel, fuel prices because
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they're now they're trying to save money, get through them and
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then they do their best. These guys know, and I said on
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our segment, these guys know where to fuel, what states to
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fuel one, which one to stay away from.
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You got your Federal Highway use tax, which keeps going up over
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years. OK, used to be based on how many
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trucks you have. Now you pay upfront on how many
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trucks you have. So say you just have just one
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truck. You got to pay that upfront and
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one lump sum. And if you sell that truck or
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wreck that truck, there's no refund on that.
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You don't get any money back. You still paid that.
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You still paid that. You still paid that highway,
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highway, Federal Highway use tax.
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It's it's that, it's, it's like I said, that was always my dream
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to go, to go to the cowboy trucker where I can go what I
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want and do what I want. You know what?
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That's why you don't see that much anymore.
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You hardly, you don't really see it anymore much anymore.
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No, there's still thousands of them out there, don't get me
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wrong, but not like back in the 70s.
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And so there you go. Is is the government's using
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tax, tax dollar funds to create bike pass and EE vehicle
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charging stations and such rather than investing
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traditional infrastructure? Came on a protest from trucking
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industry. Hell yeah.
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It came on a truck. It came on a protest from
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trucking industry. They want, you know, that should
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be used to fix the roads and bridges and all that.
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Now I have a bike, I have a bike and I use bike paths and such.
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But that should become from the, that should come from the state,
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not the government. States do that man, and put that
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money, put that money in a, in a, the highway trust fund and
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use that for the infrastructure of the roads.
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And by the way, electric vehicles, despite having heavier
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batteries, do not contribute to the highway trust fund.
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They're heavier and I'm going to go for a little bit longer than
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a couple a minute or so. So these American Electric
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vehicles, they said they're heavier, do not contribute to
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the highway trust fund. Effective wheels don't use fuel,
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therefore they're not paying into the Highway trust Fund
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because they're not paying a fuel tax, which goes to a
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highway trust fund. Congressional Budget Office
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estimates gas tax revenues, the majority of trust fund
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recipients will decline over years, estimating at 40%.
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So as these cars get more electric vehicles out there and
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your hybrids and all that get better on fuel, you're going to
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lose 40% of the, of the, the fuel tax that goes into the
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Highway Trust Fund. The House Transportation
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Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday, April 30th approved a
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budget reconciliation program proposal that includes a $22150
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fee for trucks, an annual fee for EV users.
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Oh, it's $250. I can't even read my writing
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sometime. I got to get a computer, print
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these things out because it's, I can do a book report all the
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time for my clock. I don't have teleprompter or
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people holding cards up. I got to write every fucking
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down and do it. So here we go.
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So yeah, so it's, it's, it's, it's it's $250 annual fee for EV
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users EV card, $100 on hybrids and $20 on regular passenger
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cars. According to the Transportation
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Infrastructure Committee, the new fees will increase Highway
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Trust fund by 38 billion / 10 years.
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I mean, they got to do something.
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They got to keep the roads safe. They got to keep the roads going
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and because there's more and more truck cars on the road all
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the time and trucks and everything else.
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All right. So when we come back, when we
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come back, it's road rage on proposed congestion pricing
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tolling. When we come back, we're going
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Opinions expressed in this. Road rage.
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Hello everybody, welcome back on the road.
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It's time for road rage. Road rage segment I do on
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current events around the world and here in America and how it
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effects America as a whole. Today we're going to road rage
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on congestive pricing tolls, proposed congestion pricing
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tolls. New York's the first one to do
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it. New York City.
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OK, so New York City is the first one to do this and you
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know, if it gets approved up there, every large city is going
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to file suit. All right, so I mean, you know,
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they just say on top and I just did my first segment on every on
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on just a bunch of things that the transportation industry
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already has to pay and now they want to do this for people
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trying to do their job and truck or mouth don't like it and he's
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putting the hammer down on it. Congestion Pricing Tolling is a
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traffic management strategy where drivers are charged a fee
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to use certain roads or enter specific areas during periods of
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high traffic congestion. The goal is to reduce traffic
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volume, improve Rd. efficiently and encourage the use of public
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transportation on off peak travel or off peak travel.
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Now putting the price on everything just don't work.
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I mean, you got you got to figure something out.
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These people are going into New York, you got your food, the
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food delivery food, I'm sorry, food delivery, you know, Cisco
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and all them going in there, every single they got to route
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up there and they got to get they got to get they have to get
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the deliveries to them so they can sell them and the economy.
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That's how that's how the economy goes.
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You know, you deliver, you deliver the goods, people buy
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the goods, they buy more goods, the trucks come deliver them,
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the consumer buys them. And that's how the world works.
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And you know, trucks keep everything streamlined.
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If you have, you know, you have everything you need, everybody's
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happy. You got the parts you need, you
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got the foods you need. I mean, it, it, it's, it's just
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how the world goes and, and, and they want to, they want to put
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a, a price on it. It's just just so, just so, you
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know, here, it's like, you know, along with the tolls for the
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bridges, the tunnels, all that. Now they want to put a price on
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going into Manhattan. So they've got proposed here.
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And I looked this up. January 5th, 20 fund charging
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vehicles entering Manhattan's Congestion Relief zone.
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Local streets and avenues below 60th St. based on the vehicle
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type, time of day and payment method.
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Below 60th Ave. in Manhattan is where it's where we congested at
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EZ Pass users. Peak hours 5:00 AM to 9:00 PM.
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Weekends from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM Nine dollars peak hours
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overnight 225 well look these all these places are only open
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during the day or already received during the day you know
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what what are they supposed to do tell them to tell them to
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change their hours in You can't put everything on the
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transportation industry. It ain't it ain't like that only
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one for trucks, so trucks and commercial vehicles peak hours
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are easy passes 1440 on top of your your tolls for your
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bridges, your tunnels, all that now you got to pay 1440 to go
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into these areas overnight. It's only 360.
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I still bitching because you should have to pay a damn thing
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because you're doing them a favor.
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You're you're bringing products to them.
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It ain't easy to get. It ain't easy to get into
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Manhattan. I'm pretty I'm pretty sure 53
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one O twos aren't allowed. They're not allowed in
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Manhattan. I don't believe, but to launch
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trucks now peak hours, they want to pay 2160 that was small
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trucks, the last one 2160 go in there and peak hours.
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Well, that's when they that's when they delivered.
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That's when they want their products.
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And you can't put everyone in the transportation industry, you
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know, you got you got to go to the whole world and look, we got
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to change this. I understand they want, they
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want to try to cut down emissions, cut down the
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congestion downtown, but, you know, charge a fee.
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What happens when you charge these fees is everything,
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everything builds up, shit rolls downhill.
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So you OK, you charge the trucker 2160 and they got just
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say the trucks in there all the time, every day.
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So you know damn well they're going to raise their prices on
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their products that they're delivering.
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And then they're going to raise the product, they're going to
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raise their prices on their food or whatever they're making to
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the to the consumer and he's going to pay more.
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So, you know, you can't always put a price on something and
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that's going to make it better. Taxis too.
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They want to charge $0.75 for yo taxis and green cabs, black
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cars. I don't know with a green cab
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and black car but I know yo a taxi and then the the Lyft
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drivers an Uber dollar 50 to go in there.
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I believe they said it's only once it's only once a day.
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So once you charge the the fee you can go in there.
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I think as many times as you want.
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Passive vehicles will rise. 2028 passive vehicle tolls will rise
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to 12 hours. 2031 passenger vehicle peak tolls will reach
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$15. Just imagine what truck, big
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truck is already 21 something. Now fuck out of here.
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Low income residents after the 1st 10 trips in the calendar
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month finish the discount on eight time tolls is available.
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So what happens you there ain't no long income on downtown
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Manhattan. You ain't living down Manhattan
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in low income. Not that I know of.
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Low income residents, yeah. What about the residents that
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live down there? They got to go in there during
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the peak hours or just getting done work or something.
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Had the 1st 10 trips in the counter month for that discount.
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Low income residents. Residents with within the zone
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that qualify for a state tax credit if their adjusted gross
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income was under 60,060 grand up there is like see I live here in
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PA which is right under New York.
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Since you ran a bear that's like minimum wage.
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Live in Manhattan. You better make you better.
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Make 4 times that and live in Manhattan.
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Exemptions. Emerging vehicles, of course.
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Commuter buses, vehicle trams, disabled personnel.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Drivers entering the tolls via
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toll tunnels, the Holland Tunnel, Lincoln, Hugh L Carey,
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Queens. Midtown Bridge during peak
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hours. Easy pass.
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Receive a crossing credit against the congestion toll.
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No credits provided for bridge crossings.
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You know what? Yeah, right.
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They're trying to make it. Well, OK.
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No, no, we don't want it at all. There's, there are already,
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there's already opposition against it.
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There's already, there's already people suing the state and all
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that. You can't don't do that.
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There's several types of congestion pricing, towing a
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corridor, pricing a fetal enter a cordon, pricing a fetal enter
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a defined area like a central business district.
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Yeah, OK. Like I said, you're doing these
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people a favor by bringing their products in on a timely basis
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and keeping them stocked up on whatever they need.
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They always want to come back on on the transportation industry.
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We got variable tolling. Tolls change based on time of
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day. Fuck out of here.
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Uber, Lyft do that. The same rides you got, the same
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ride you got mover Gotta stop using Lyft.
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They're they're crooked. The same rides you get today for
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$8, say from here across the bridge here to Wrightsville.
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When they're busy, it's it's $12.00, thirteen dollars, $15.
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Bullshit on that zone based pricing fees applied within
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certain zones regardless of entry point.
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Yeah, they're just trying to Surrey code everything.
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Trucker mouth don't like it. He's putting that number down on
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it. We're not going to pay.
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I'm crashing the gate door 98. We said that damn trucker roll
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10 four go. We got a great big convoy.
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Can't always charge. Come back on the trucking
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industry for everything. What's that going to sign?
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They're not going to stand. They still got to be in there,
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but that time's delivered. They got a delivery time.
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Like I said, you got to go to all these companies, this and
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that and say, hey, what can we do here?
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That's trucker mouse take on it. I don't know told you should be
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ringing off the hook, man what what?
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Nobody got nothing to say. Trucker mouse worldwide,
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worldwide, worldwide, worldwide. Distance based pricing charges
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depending on how far a vehicle travels within the zone.
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Fuck out of here. So they're trying to sugarcoat
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everything. We're not going to pay it.
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And I'm laying it down in the underground on congestion
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pricing, towing, and we ain't having it.
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So I don't know, man. Can't put a price on everything.
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And and and and there's a mismanaged infrastructure is
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what it is and you can't and just, you know, towing this and
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towing that mega airing harder to stuff get there is not the
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not the answer. I took him out breaking it down.
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He don't like it. My brothers and sisters out
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there driving trucks are putting everything they have.
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They give everything up. They have to drive these trucks.
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Even even you you local guys know they're working.
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They're working man hours running them.
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So the, the stress on them, everything else and it, it's,
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it's, it's not right. One more thing that they got to,
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one more thing that they have to pay out and worry about.
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Fair. Lawmakers in New Jersey and New
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York introduced 3 bills that go directly after New York City's
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congestion pricing problem program and the Metropolitan
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Transportation Authority. So they got there, there,
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there's people going after them. They're they're trying to shut
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this down even before it gets started and they really should.
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Other efforts to stop congestion pricing, at least nine lawsuits
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filed in federal District Court or challenging congestion
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pricing. Yeah, 'cause that ain't the
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answer. It's not the answer.
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And trucker mouse burning it down.
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I'm not going to have it. We're not having it, we're not
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paying. We're crashing the gate to a 98
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and letting them truckers roll to embolden.
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Well, looks like we got to our destination.
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This is the end of the road. I'm trucker mouth.
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Thanks for coming along for the ride on the road.
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We didn't drop their mouth. Woo Hoo.
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Hit end stream. Trucker mouth still on the
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stream. I'm off right?
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