Norcal Spotted and BS Thread

judging by the truck, air horns

 

maybe an oxy tank to help justify the DP plate/placard?

While I'm sure the owner has some justified reason, every time I see a lifted/offroad beefed out rig like this with a DP plate, makes me think of the little old couple with a wheelchair at Costco who can't park close to the front entrance

 

Eh, every scenario is different, I'm almost eligible for DV plates.

 

They got greedy and had too much power. If I remember correctly, their benefits packages were out of control.

Without a way for employees to organize and negotiate wages and working conditions, we end up working longer hours and competing for increasingly fewer jobs for increasingly lower wages. It becomes a situation where you're not paid what you're worth, you're paid what you're willing to take because you have to feed your family. All that money that was spent on providing a decent wage and health benefits goes to making fat pockets fatter.

For example: you won't work for less than $26 an hour because you think your skillset commands that wage, but there's an equally-skilled guy that's been out of work and has bills to pay and mouths to feed who's willing to do it for $17 an hour. What do you do? It becomes a desperate bidding war for the lowest wage you're willing to accept.

I totally agree unions suck in a lot of ways, but I think everyone except the corporations and their lobbyists (and the politicians that do their bidding) loses if they disappear. If we have less money to spend, there's less money going into local economies which means less tax revenue.

In the end, Walm*rt wins.

 

Right, and you haven't even factored in the illegals who are pushing wages even lower in the construction industry. Electrical, plumbing, carpentry, roofing, drywall. Any Union guys in those fields are getting hammered. My General Contractor buddies are being lowballed by Generals that will hire illegals.

 

Damn, those ubolts need a good trimming. If its on the road all the time then I guess it doesn't matter.

 

True, but that's one segment of the job market. Pushing wages and compensation down to that level across the board is the "right-to-work" end game.

What would it take to level the playing field? Harsh fines, permanent loss of contractor's license, jail time for GCs that get caught using illegal labor? I honestly don't know, but I believe there is a solution.

 

I personally think its a 'mall crawler' or owner is just majorly OCD about dirt/mud and owns a nice steamer, or the lack of dirt could be from a recent transport (it does have Hawaii aloha team license plate frames)

then again that is a ton of cash to dump into something and not take it off the pavement

 

Does anyone know if NorCal does a spindle gusset swap like the dude in SoCal? Spindles gusseted are sent to you and you remove your stock spindles to replace the gusseted ones you received? This is something that I need to look into. I know I could contact the dude in SoCal but I would prefer to support NorCal guys.

 

@Bentrodder is the man!!

 

This. Union got a guys job back that was universally hated at the refinery. When we went on strike, he stole a radio and threatened to kill a manager. They have him on video and audio recording doing it. He was let go right after the strike, but brought back after a year of union fighting.

The company just instituted a policy towards our bonus; every sick day used counts against your end of year bonus. Morale of the story, all the shit heads that burn through their sick days every year and skip out on mandatory call outs (fucking the people stuck on shift) get a reduced or no bonus. MF'ers were trying to vote the bonus down again this year. FFS.

 

Jerry is going to make plate shackle hangers soon. I just need to get the shackle off the frame. Ill probably unload the suspension. heat it up with a torch and take a BFH to it.

 

Disabilities come in many forms and besides, why couldn't someone have a lifted rig and be disabled?

 

Pretty sure I ordered a short bed 4x4 driveshaft. That box looks hella long. Can't wait to get off work and open it up.

 

This is the bottom line for me: if companies/corporations would pay employees a decent wage that keeps up with inflation and the cost of living, provide quality, affordable health insurance, and maybe a few other things I can't think of at the moment, there would be no need for unions. The flipside of that is if you're not earning your keep, you get shown the door, with no union to save your sorry ass.

 

Doesn't look at all like I'd expect either.

 

Maybe. But I'm public sector. Who am I being protected from? You the tax payer?

The unions have no place in government. IMO.

 

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i was confused why you were parked in someone else driveway but then remembered steve lives next to you