Debbie DetmerMay 11
ProPublica

Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens.

Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mike-collins-georgia-senate-truck-crashes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Georgia #Congress #Immigration #Trucks #Transportation #Driving

A U.S. Senate Candidate Says Foreign Truckers Are Making America’s Roads Unsafe. His Own Truckers Have Caused Harm.

Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.

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May 11 at 2:30pmWeb
Show threadIanMay 11
@ProPublica Sounds like he's suggesting we replace road-destroying trucks with trains.
Show threadantipode77May 11

@soviut @ProPublica

One of those incredibly loooooooooong freight trains, because profit maximising is the one priority trumping EVERYTHING.

First we need to set an upper boundary on train lengths.

Show threadPomegranate_Stew2d ago

@antipode77 @soviut @ProPublica

But long trains are the best, especially when your house is on one side of the tracks and the local hospital or school or your workplace is on the other.

Show threadLinza2d ago
@pomegranate_stew @antipode77 @soviut @ProPublica or when it's full of improperly marked hazardous substances
Show threadIan1d ago
@Linza @pomegranate_stew @antipode77 @ProPublica You're right; put those on the roads instead.
Show threadLinza1d ago
@soviut @pomegranate_stew @antipode77 @ProPublica You know that's not what we meant. Your response is particularly useless and you're going in the block pile.
Show threadIan1d ago
@pomegranate_stew @antipode77 @ProPublica This is so car-pilled. There are solutions for getting past train tracks; don't build level crossings!
Show threadPomegranate_Stew1d ago
@soviut @antipode77 @ProPublica
It’s small town Midwest US life. My hometown, around 5000 people, has tracks directly through the center that have been there for over 100 years. They don’t have the money to even build pedestrian bridges over the tracks.
Show threadIan1d ago
@pomegranate_stew @antipode77 @ProPublica Your town got hosed. It had a direct rail line and still only has 5000 people in it? Sounds like it got gutted by the interstates. Remember that; cars ruin cities. Asphalt is expensive to maintain, has terrible drainage issues and is destroyed by heavy trucks that could have been delivered literally straight to your town via rail.
Show threadPomegranate_Stew1d ago
@soviut
It was incorporated in the 1870s. It’s a small town in the Midwest, just like thousands of other small towns which also have railroad tracks through them. Believe me, no one there would consider themselves “hosed”. They enjoy living in a small town. I don’t, which is why I don’t live there.
Show threadIan1d ago
@pomegranate_stew I don't mean hosed for living in a small town, I mean getting hosed by the auto industry that ruined so many rail towns. Hell, they ruined just about every walkable place with minimum parking requirements, downtown highway corridors that razed poorer neighbourhoods, etc.
Show threadP_______XMay 11
@ProPublica "If you cant read english traffic signs?" US traffic signs in the meantime:
Show threadWilfried Klaebe2d ago

Still way too much language in there. Have a look at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Signs_and_Signals, "dear" USA!

@P__X @ProPublica

Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals - Wikipedia

Show threadP_______X2d ago

@wonka @ProPublica Lemme translate from US Fascist to Normal Human Language: they feel that it's impolite to say straight up bigoted things like "immigrants are the cause of all problems in America". So they think it's much more palatable to say stupider shit like "one has to be a citizen to be able to "read" traffic signs".

It's similar to when someone's dumping their bf/gf because they're overweight, but since it would look shallow, they say it's because of their busy online gaming schedule

Show threadKevin RussellMay 11

@ProPublica

This post needs better writing, I hope the article is clearer.

Show threadKevin RussellMay 11

@ProPublica

Article is much clearer than post.
Republican racist has opposed safety programs in trucking, has killed, has injured and now spreads hateful.lies.

Typical Republican.

Typical.

#uspol #USRacists #usracism #trump #filth #gross

Show threadJonathan Hendry5d ago

@ProPublica

What about Canadians?

Show threadgnate2d ago

@ProPublica The whole industry is in a horrendous state. My info may be a few years out of date, but the turnover in truckers is enormous--it even exceeded 100% at one point (lots of retirements, etc. that weren't offset by new drivers.)

About half of truckers on the road have less than one year experience. That should change your expectations of driving near semis!

Many new drivers receive negative paychecks, since the cost of the their shiny new rig outweighs what they earn through driving.