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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
Seems like the country likes to flip-flop back and forth. People are yelling for state’s rights on one issue and then on another issue, states are crying foul and hoping for a federal standard that works in their interests. No surprises here.
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i dunno, california and it's specific climate make for a literal different world from the rest of the country.
you see flip-flopping, i routinely see 'my f-650 identifies as a prius'. the mindset of the rest of the country is entirely different from california
early on, i believe that i commented that the rule will never hold, and you responded that it was going to push the industry forward in a needed direction.
what i'm seeing is that there's really 2 polar-opposite groups in the country now that are only growing further apart.
we've got the city folk/california people that want more rules, regulations, progress, change, identity, and equality.
then we've got the rural people that want less rules, regulations, progress, change, identity, and equality.
unfortunately, the city/california people are more politically organized, so they tend to run the political systems and create the laws.
but the rural people are the ones 'in the trenches', doing the work that the laws are directly effecting, though less politically organized.
in this case, we see 'flip-flopping' because of this clash of groups. truckers generally fall into the rural group, while the politicians creating these rules to force progress fall into the city group..
it's really only going to get worse, as from that article i linked, it's going to come to a head to how hardcore the city group holds to the letter of the law they created, when the rural truckers need to decide how badly they want to deliver any cargo to/from the state of california, and buy a replacement truck that conforms, even if their current truck is functional.
there will be a subset that conforms and keeps going within california, but i expect we're going to see a massive uprising at the laws due-date due to the requirements of changing the truck, where truckers are simply going to stop going to any cali-spec states. this is going to cause an incredible shipping backlog, and prices of everything is going to spike even further.