California Dump Truck Owners Association (CDTOA) - California Construction Trucking Association (CCTA)

Fraud and plagiarism are being detected at a greater rate, and some fear problems ahead.

By ALAN BAVLEY - The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/28/3397752/phony-science-is-a-growing-concern.html

The only difference between Kansas is that the Attorney General (now the Governor GreenJean-Moonbeam) and the UC administration are glad to look the other way when it comes to self-serving corruption and fraud – in the name of the environment.

Lee Brown

This one should be tough for the supporters of the current regime to swallow....AND it comes from ABC NEWS...no Snopes or Wikileaks on this one!!

U.S.A. Bridges and Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms Shocking to say the least!  This video is a jaw-dropper that will make you sick.  (It was also shocking that ABC was actually reporting this story.)

The lead-in with Obama promising jobs in the U.S. by improving our infrastructure is so typical of all his promises!  Our tax dollars are at work - for CHINA!!!

I pray all the unemployed see this and cast their votes accordingly in 2012!

Click here: U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms |  Video - ABC News

Wisconsin's Scott Walker is facing a recall after his labor and spending reforms. If he loses, public unions will flex their muscles nationwide.

By STEPHEN MOORE - WSJ

One Sunday afternoon last spring, as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was working in his front yard, a car rolled slowly by and blared its horn. He and his two teenage sons looked up to see two middle fingers directed their way as the car screeched down the street. A few minutes later another car rolled by and a voice shouted "Hey governor!" Mr. Walker reluctantly looked up—to find two thumbs up coming through the open window.

No American politician had a more polarizing effect on voters last year than Scott Walker. This time last year, thousands of irate protesters were occupying Wisconsin's state Capitol, comparing Mr. Walker to Hitler for trying to reform the pension and collective-bargaining systems of public-employee unions. He needed an entourage of 25 security officers to escort him through the building at the height of the pandemonium.

Long Beach Post:

The Long Beach City Prosecutor’s Office announced today that it filed a 58 count criminal complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Pacific Coast Container, Inc., for illegally transporting overweight shipments in violation of the California Vehicle Code.

In addition to Pacific Coast Container, Inc., the complaint charges Umex Freight System, Inc., and 19 employees of the corporations responsible for overweight shipping. If convicted of all charges, the defendants could be ordered to pay $153,193.00 (plus penalties and assessments).

Vehicle Identification Number and Vehicle History Reports

As cars were first being introduced into California, there was no orderly way to track the vehicles or the owners until 1905. To keep track of all vehicles, the state required cars, bicycles, carriages, carts and similar vehicles to be licensed. However, the automotive industry used a different method to track their vehicles- Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs). A VIN is a unique serial code that is assigned to every vehicle and was first used in 1954. They were typically placed on the driver-side door or at the bottom of the front windshield. Different manufacturers used different formats of VINs until 1981, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration required VINs to be 17 characters and must exclude the letters I, O and Q. By excluding these letters, any confusion with the numbers one and zero was avoided.

SACRAMENTO, CA - As Californians ring in the New Year Sunday, several new traffic laws will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2012.

The laws were passed by the state Legislature and then signed by Gov. Brown earlier this year, California Highway Patrol Commander Fran Clader said.

RELATED STORY: Many laws passed in 2011 affect kids, teens

News Date: 12/23/2011, Orange County Register Editorial

California businesses can expect little sympathy from leadership in Sacramento.

Democratic reaction to the news that Waste Connections, a $3.6-billion company and major Sacramento-area employer, is headed to Houston to seek a friendlier business climate tells other businesses all they need to know about the attitudes of those who run California's government.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently issued two notable revisions to its rules for commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers. 

The Trucker Staff 12/20/2011

WASHINGTON — Noting recent toll hikes that they called a lack of accountability and fiscal mismanagement at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Rep. Michael Grimm, R-.N.Y., have introduced legislation that would restore the Department of Transportation’s ability to determine whether toll hikes are fair to drivers and to give the Department authority to prescribe more reasonable tolls.

Sacramento Bee, 12/20/2011

As Gov. Jerry Brown participated in a Capitol menorah-lighting ceremony this week to mark the onset of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, he uttered a secular prayer for a miracle that would make California a model of carbon-free energy.

Today's miracle, he said, "is not to find more oil, but to utilize the sun," adding, "when we continue to use our intelligence, we're going to take that sun through the miracle of modern science and technology, and we're going to light up California, our cars, our homes, our air conditioners."

Warm-weather cities dominate lower rungs in MarketWatch survey

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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — If you’re a prospective business owner, you’re probably not going to find much that’s inviting — other than weather — about inland California or southwest Florida.

And in parts of Ohio, they don’t even have fine weather working in their favor.

Never before has the Bottom 10 in MarketWatch’s study of the Best Cities for Business been so neatly confined to three clearly defined regions of the country. Five inland California communities, three regions around Florida’s Gulf Coast and two parts of Ohio get this dubious distinction for 2011.