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<P>That link locked me to the email register page and broke the back button on the browser.</P> <P>I usually dont register with my email too often, is there a way to capture the article and show it here?</P> <P>Trucking is an industry that is slaved to the shipper and reciever added to volume. I never hauled livestock but have been around meat plants long enough to understand that the "bull haulers" run dollar trucks and that livestock WILL get to the slaughter house alive or dead.</P> <P>They do have feedlots for them to marshal in numbers before being shipped to the slaughter.</P> <P>The winter brings on boards on the outside of the trailer so they dont freeze during the trip. In all seasons the dying and dead livestock are usually removed from the food chain if they dont survive the trip.</P> <P>If the Government was really serious about regulating trucking the way they do trains they can start by removing the rusted shut padlock on the weight station signs and throw away the "closed" side.</P> <P>And finish with having federal agents in all trucking facilties, shippers and recievers and truckstops to oversee and monitor the activity. That will slow things down to unacceptable levels and potentially bring this Nation down a little bit when the cargo arrives at the store not so fresh.</P> <P>There is an old law that required you to have your logs on you at all times subject to inspection. I can count on two hands the number of times I actually got inspected. I passed 8 and failed two which were settled promptly once the fines were paid and the OOS expired. That was for the first ten years.</P> <P>I think the Livestock haulers have a "Territory" within a certain range of a meat plant and there appears to be adequate supply. Keep in mind 24/7 thousands of livestock are needed at each plant and there is a constant, very intense activity around the clock.</P> <P>Nah, Each year the noise from the Government fades into the background no matter how much they shout from the altar in the church of safety. There are a few states with scalehouses everyone respects and obidently crosses the I's and dots the T's and comes thru with the hair washed and the face shaved. Everywhere else? HAH!</P>
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