Sometimes I alert dog owners they’re burning their pets’ feet
Great story and absolutely true reporting. The trucking industry’s owner/ operation scheme is America’ largest unregulated franchise.
There are 1.2 million owner-operators who, one way or the other were coerced into buying the tractor they drive to pull the trailers owned by the actual trucking company.
There are anti coercion laws on the statute books to protect drivers, but they are never applied to owner operators.
I know, because I have been an owner operator, and as a result of knowing the owner/operator situation have been a successfully running a school to help owner operators escape this national form of indentured servitude. I currently serve as a forensic expert on the subject.
A historical analogous situation, would be the story of Ben Hur, as a galley slave he had only two work options, sit or row. Today’s owner-operators who are euphemistically called “independent contractors” have the same Ben-Hur option, sit or drive.
— David G. Dwinell, Sun City
Thank you, reader N. Hopkins for your letter about dog paws on the hot sidewalk this summer.
I’ve been known to roll down my car window and yell out, “Your dog’s paws are burning up!” The black-topped roads are even crueler. — W. Combs, Mesa
The letter writer was wearing her insecurity on her sleeve
Regarding Marcia Nelson’s, letter, “‘Republic’ puts fringe groups center stage in our newspaper” in which she complains Christians aren’t being given front-page coverage that is equal to some fringe groups.
However, she offered no numbers to back up her complaint, only one example in a recent edition. I did find one thing interesting though, I never realized just
Not all utilities are run the same way. In response to Warren Woodward’s letter titled “Is it any wonder why certain utilities ask for rate hikes,” many of us are thankful to live in Salt River Project territory.
While SRP is not subject to Corporation Commission oversight, they are an extraordinarily well run utility delivering consistent reliable power at favorable pricing.
Perhaps part of that is due to Mark Bonsall’s (SRP’s General Manager) compensation being significantly less (about $1.2 million in fiscal year 2013 or less than $3,300 per day compared to APS