Curbco Shopping

Always been torn about folks seeking a better life as I know I might do the same if in that position...especially if family involved. That being said, when I started a construction biz in the early 90's I wanted to do it by the book and not like most that either 1099'd or paid help under the table to avoid paying payroll taxes. In a span of 15 years I witnessed new home construction being taken over by southern tourist and even though the prices of houses sky rocketed, the prices being paid dropped and the work load increased due to new codes being enforced. I no longer replaced help that quit until it was just me. Sad thing was many tourist worked harder then locals and would work weekends, but as I stated, I ran my biz legitimately.



Last week we had a trucker that barley spoke English, but had a green card, kill four people and cause a major incident on I-70 as he slammed into traffic doing 85 mph due to smoking his brakes coming down the grade into Denver.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/l...a-b83583910cc8

Originally Posted by KzScrapper

Last week we had a trucker that barley spoke English, but had a green card, kill four people and cause a major incident on I-70 as he slammed into traffic doing 85 mph due to smoking his brakes coming down the grade into Denver.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/l...a-b83583910cc8

I could see the smoke even from my house way out east when the accident first occurred.

That was awful.

I will say that I think the fact that the driver had a Green Card and spoke very little English had no bearing on the accident.

The trucking company is the most at fault and has had many more safety issues than this, it comes from being cheap and hiring cheap un-skilled labor and not being willing to spend the $$ and time to test and/or train drivers or it could be that the truck should not have even been on the road with any driver because it needed maintenance.

I am not saying the driver isn't at fault at all but more the trucking company, and again, the driver should be able to drive a truck and speak fluent French and bad English if he is truly a driver skilled enough to be behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer.

In regards to Curbco shopping (I am still a newbie and assume that means look for scrap appliances and random metal on curbs?), price of gas is going up and the price of metal is going down around here.

In regards to the original post, that was a very nice thing to do to help someone.