You need to understand...Joey is a Stalinist. He worships The State with religious fervor. To Joey, The State can do no wrong.Okay, buddy, here's the problem with that. I really don't want the highways to be unregulated when you have a big old 18 wheeler rolling around me at 65MPH.
The reality is, if there is a law a bureaucrat is enforcing, like "Not letting a broken down old man drive a big rig", it's probably because they had a shitload of cases where someone who should have retired years ago was still out there. Now, it would be nice if the truckers were still unionized and COULD retire at 55. But you have someone driving at that age whose reflexes, physical strength and eyesight isn't what it used to be.
I used to drive a truck when I was in the Army. I know I couldn't do that today.
You drove a straight truck. A tractor-trailer is much more complicated and difficult to drive than those things. My first driving job was in a straight truck when I was 17. Correct, driving is not for everybody. It takes a certain desire, tolerance and skill to do it for a living. Bureaucrats are not only enforcing the laws, they are creating them, again, totally un-constitutinoal. All bureaucracies should be eliminated except those for criminal activities, taxes, and protection of our country.
If you're so concerned about safety and trucks on the road, why don't you complain about these foreigners who come here and can't drive worth a shit? I can tell you without reservations that these people never took a CDL test in the United States. Albeit many years ago, I know what level of skill you need to pass that test. I know what our straight truck drivers go through to pass the test when we promote them from straight trucks to tractor-trailer.
Also, when you write to your representative about the foreigners with no American CDL on our roads, tell them about your concern of extending retirement to the age of 67. Because that's when they wanted me to retire.
Because you have a government that enables that shit. "Oh, you are moving your factory out of state to fuck your employees? That's nice. We are going to open an IRS AUdit on you. We'll find something. When we do, we'll put you in big boy prison with Jamal and a jar of vasoline."
Problem solved.
That's what a government that looks out for workers looks like.
No, that's what a Nazi or Dictatorship country looks like. A free Republic society does not imprison their citizens for making smart business decisions. If you desire fascism where the government has nearly total control of industry, then I suggest you vote for Bernie Sanders. He will give you more government control over the wealthy and industry and then some.