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    The Federal District Court in Galveston gave truckers a very nasty valentine.  On Valentines Day, it threw out my case alleging judicial corruption in the Washington DC Circuit Court of Appeals—depriving truckers of their 14th Amendment right to equal protection under the law.  Of the 2515 truckers killed on the job from 2007-2010, around 578 could have been saved if their trucks had the modern safety features that cars have.  In a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the American Trucking Associations and Owner Operator Independent Driver Association alleged that fatal injuries to truckers could be reduced 23 percent if cab structural integrity was improved sufficiently to prevent crushing in rollovers.

    The court ruled that my case was barred because I filed litigation in 2007 to prevent the 578 deaths.  In 2006, President Bush fired a dozen US Attorneys for no apparent reason.  The ones that were left provided the DC courts with false information to get my case thrown out. President Bush also appointed his Staff Secretary to be a judge on two separate panels deciding my case.  The Supreme Court ruled that judges may not decide appeals of their own decisions because “the probability of actual bias on the part of the judge or decision maker is too high to be constitutionally tolerable.”  If a hundred experienced judges would have accepted a promotion to the DC Court of Appeals and half were better qualified than the President's secretary, the odds are one in a thousand that he could have decided an appeal of his own decision randomly.   After leaving office, Bush's Motor Carrier Safety Administrator blew the whistle blew the whistle alleging “The political people tell the appointed people what they’re going to do.”

    The FBI investigated several House and Senate committee chairmen to determine why Presidential Candidate Ron Paul’s 'Safer Truck Act' never received a hearing while a bridge to nowhere was to be built in Alaska.  The same month that $4 per gallon gas plunged the nation into recession, the nation’s largest oil company announced record profits of 14 billion and Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, a former Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, was convicted of receiving gifts from an oil company.  The nation's largest trucking company also announced record profits.  Despite being found guilty by a jury of his peers, charges against Stevens were abruptly dropped after I sent the FBI a complaint alleging that a dozen truck drivers killed in Texas had a greater than 50-50 probability of being victims of wrongful death.  The station chief who received my complaint resigned from the FBI a month later.  Instead of spending the rest of his life in prison, Senator Stevens died suspiciously in a plane crash.  

    Trucking is the most dangerous occupation in the United States.  One in every seven Americans killed on the job is a truck driver.   A sober motorist is more than twice as likely to be killed by a heavy truck as by a drunk driver.  To protect themselves, motorists purchased 160% more gas guzzling SUV's in 2002 than they did in 1995.  High gas prices resulting from a shortage of refinery capacity triggered the 2008 recession by popping the housing bubble in outlying suburbs that were no longer economical to commute to.  The Government Accountability Office estimated that the pollution, accident, and congestion costs of trucks are six times more than trains (p.27).  According to a study by the Federal Railroad Administration, intermodalism is up to five times more fuel efficient than trucking.  Even on short trips, ships and trains are twice as efficient as trucks.  If they were legal, modern intermodal vehicles could have replaced ten percent of long haul trucks every year since 2005—an accumulated savings of 88 billion from 2006-2010.  

    The main benefit of intermodal vehicles is actually not safety or efficiency, but their ability to deliver freight absolutely anywhere at ground level without a loading dock.  18 wheelers have cargo decks three feet above the ground, making them extremely difficult for small businessmen to load and unload.   If intermodal vehicles replaced long haul trucks, small business entrepreneurs could compete on a level playing field with giant corporations.  Billionaire campaign contributors would be a thing of the past.  Unemployed people could start home industries to prevent their homes from being foreclosed and farmers could sell milk and produce directly to consumers over the internet at half supermarket prices.  

    Half of all trips are shopping trips.  If people could do most of their shopping at home, there would be fewer car crashes, less highway congestion, less oil consumed, less pollution, cars would last longer, insurance rates and cost of living would be lower, and war in the Middle East would be unnecessary.  Needless to say, the trucking, oil, auto, food, insurance, and retail industries are all against it.

    If intermodal vehicles were allowed to deliver freight a mere five miles around industrial parks, demand for rail transportation would dramatically increase and track electrification would become economical—reducing noise and pollution.  Like most nations, the US has a surplus of night time generating capacity that could be used to power trains.  A trucker with a modern intermodal truck that traveled less than five miles could use plug in power and go home from work every night without having to drive long distances and never buy Diesel fuel again.  This is why oil industry executives are willing to risk prison by bribing government officials—and why a United States Senator was convicted of receiving gifts from an oil company.

     How much does our obsolete long haul trucking industry cost taxpayers?  In the last highway bill, the following money was allocated for cover the costs of trucks:

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