Pete Buttigieg on paternity leave during supply chain crisis...

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IluvdoubleD's said:
It's probably better to make our infrastructure accommodating to trucks and deliveries. You know, like the Biden bill.
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I’d change the topic too.

I am completely onboard with regular, targeted investments in maintaining, and improving, our physical infrastructure (e.g., roads, bridges, ports, rail, pipeline, etc).

It’s one of the items Federal tax revenues should actually be supporting.
 
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85SugarVol said:
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg makes recruiting truck drivers a priority as industry reaches a breaking point
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Mickey Weaver's company connects trucking applicants with employers. Not only are there too few job seekers, but he also said, once they see how much time in the truck is unpaid, many quit.
"I seen a guy just this morning. He'd been sitting up for three to four hours, just sitting there, just waiting to get his truck loaded. And he's not making any money," Weaver said.
Patrick Penfield, a professor of supply chain practice at Syracuse University, said he believes better pay structures would fix backlogs.
"But until you do that, these poor truckers are kind of at the mercy of these ports in these other destinations where they have to wait," he said.
Buttigieg said that's one idea they are studying.

"We need to look at these compensation issues if we really want to solve long-term challenges in trucking in the U.S," said Buttigieg.
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Hey Pete, I’m sure you’ve got millions to spend “studying the issue” let me save us taxpayers some money. Ban paying drivers by the mile and remove the overtime exemption. That will fix the vast majority of the issues. To fix the rest ease up on the regulations and stop the harassment from the police and DOT.
 
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85SugarVol said:
I’d change the topic too.

I am completely onboard with regular, targeted investments in maintaining, and improving, our physical infrastructure (e.g., roads, bridges, ports, rail, pipeline, etc).

It’s one of the items Federal tax revenues should actually be supporting.
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Increase rail availability and destinations.
 
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IluvdoubleD's said:
I have talked to the guy that runs DOT for Ohio on numerous occasions and I can see why you would say that. I'm giving him his leave, then it's go time or I change my mind. He should be more visible, if you think it's an American problem you are wholly mistaken tho.
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Political appointees are mostly figure heads. I will say this for Pete that none of his predecessors have done..he gives us half days off on the day before a Holiday if that holiday is on a Friday or Monday. Not being at work > being at work
 
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