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Date:         Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:18:08 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill N <freeholder@STARBAND.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bill N <freeholder@STARBAND.NET>
Subject:      Re: Not passing smog, still... Need help!
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I often see trucks pulled over here in AZ, and I see weigh stations open more than they are
closed.  And that's not to mention the agriculture checkpoints at the borders with CA and NM,
and the Border Patrol checkpoints all over the place.


Bill




----- Original Message -----
From: "David Brodbeck" <gull@CYBERSPACE.ORG>
>
> Yeah, but the safety inspections the rest of us have to go through are
> irrelevent to that. Semi trucks seem to be exempt from pretty much all
> laws, including speed limits.  (When was the last time you saw one pulled
> over?  When was the last time you saw an *open* weigh station?)  I think
> the trucking lobby is greasing some palms, or maybe knows where a lot of
> bodies are buried.
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