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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Here's another way the government is strangling us

Dana Mathewson

Regulations, regulations and more regulations. 70% of the goods we depend on move by truck. And truckers are being slowly strangled by more and more regulations. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/driven-mad-trucking-industry-collapsing-under-regulation/

Consider this quote from a long-time driver: "We’re around 200,000 drivers short, and they’re making it to where you’ve got to be a jail house lawyer to get down the road. It’s turning a lot of guys off from being a driver."

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