Good afternoon Gord ... please tell me you weren't actually wearing sandals when you were leaning on that W9 ... you were taught way better. A little input regarding NAFTA from someone who was there before it all started. Canada and United States had a very successful free trade agreement in place for many years prior to the introduction of NAFTA and it worked well. Free trade on its own is not a bad thing. The flaw in the NAFTA agreement was that 2 of the participants had very comparable standards of living while the 3rd participant had and still has a standard of living from a previous century and that won't work. The only winners were the big corporations exploiting the disparity and the politicians doing their bidding. On another note, sorry but I am not buying your wage issues in today's trucking industry. If you are a good truck driver working full time in the industry and you are not pulling down a minimum of $100,000.00 per year you need a new job or you need to change professions because you aren't good at trucking. Wages and working conditions have never been better than they are today. Trucks are more powerful, more comfortable, safer than any period in the last 50 years. Granted we need a little less government involvement, we need a lot more common sense on the part of the government AS WELL AS the industry itself. End of story.
Good afternoon Gord ... please tell me you weren't actually wearing sandals when you were leaning on that W9 ... you were taught way better. A little input regarding NAFTA from someone who was there before it all started. Canada and United States had a very successful free trade agreement in place for many years prior to the introduction of NAFTA and it worked well. Free trade on its own is not a bad thing. The flaw in the NAFTA agreement was that 2 of the participants had very comparable standards of living while the 3rd participant had and still has a standard of living from a previous century and that won't work. The only winners were the big corporations exploiting the disparity and the politicians doing their bidding. On another note, sorry but I am not buying your wage issues in today's trucking industry. If you are a good truck driver working full time in the industry and you are not pulling down a minimum of $100,000.00 per year you need a new job or you need to change professions because you aren't good at trucking. Wages and working conditions have never been better than they are today. Trucks are more powerful, more comfortable, safer than any period in the last 50 years. Granted we need a little less government involvement, we need a lot more common sense on the part of the government AS WELL AS the industry itself. End of story.
Superb article! I can't add anything just yet, you've covered it so well. We should print some copies, and pin them to law-makers' foreheads.