Kanas - Private Big Rig Trucks w/ Highway Patrol Inside!!!

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This really frosted my hide. In Kansas, Yellow Transportation is allowing state troopers to sit in their trucks with video cameras and radar guns. The officer then radios a patrol car ahead to ticket the motorists.

I am going to write a letter to Yellow Transportation to tell them how I will never patronize their business and that I will tell all my friends and business associates not to use Yellow Transportation.

This feels so wrong on many levels way beyond the simple income generation scheme that it is. I better wait a day before I write the letter to cool off or it may be way too offensive for them to read!

Please pass this story along to see if we can get a ground swell of opposition and letters sent to Yellow Transportation expressing our thoughts on their company. Story below in case link goes dead.

Kansas: Big Rigs Equipped with Ticket Cameras

Kansas: Big Rigs Equipped with Ticket Cameras
Federal gas tax money used to hide Kansas state troopers in big rig trucks so they can issue tickets to motorists.

The Kansas Highway Patrol last week began spying on motorists from privately owned big rig trucks. As part of a new, federally funded effort, a state trooper sits in the passenger seat of each truck and operates a set of five video cameras and a radar gun to identify motorists to ticket. The trooper will then contact a patrol car hidden nearby to issue the citation. The program is expected to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in ticket revenue over the next six weeks.

"I want to thank industry and governmental partners that have agreed to work with the Patrol on this important program," Kansas Highway Patrol Superintendent William R. Seck said in a statement.

Yellow Transportation, a Wichita company, provided trucks for the most recent operation at no cost to the state. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is funding the Kansas ticketing program, this month rewarded the cooperative company with its "highest safety rating" -- a valuable endorsement of Yellow's practices. In 2005, the federal agency similarly spent $600,000 in federal gas tax money to fund a ticketing program in Washington state.

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Here is some contact information. It appears that YRC has purchased Yellow Transportation. Get the letters rolling guys!

YRC Worldwide Inc.
10990 Roe Ave.
Overland Park, KS
Phone: 913-696-6100

Company Executives
William "Bill" Zollars - Chairman and CEO
Paul Liljegren - Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasury
James Staley - CEO, YRC Regional Transportation
James Welch - CEO, Yellow Transportation
Tim Wicks - COO
Michael Smid - CEO of Roadway Subsidiary
Sheila Taylor - CFO
Phil Gaines - Chief Accounting Officer
Mike Smid - COO and President of YRC Inc.
Andy Slusher - Vice President of Pricing
Greg Reid - Chief Marketing Officer
John Garcia - Chief Sales Officer
Mike Naatz - Chief Information and Service Officer

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MD used to use a confiscated big rig to do the same thing years ago. Renamed the rig as Rubber Duckey Trucking I believe.

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MD used to use a confiscated big rig to do the same thing years ago. Renamed the rig as Rubber Duckey Trucking I believe.

In MD it sounds like the agency owned the truck. What bugs me more here is that I don't like private business or citizens being on the government snitch patrol. There is real crime that police should tend to and there are revenue generation activities. Revenue should come from the taxes we already pay. They should then use that money to provide true safety measures. Instead I see law enforcement growing and growing in size and needing more and more money to pay for more and more services of debatable merit. When the flow of traffic on a long stretch of freeway is 80mph, I have a hard time seeing how a CHP car hiding behind a bend and plucking a car off here and there for going 83mph is enhancing safety on that freeway. I think there would be far greater value for that officer to be actively patrolling and working on real threats. Ok, done.

[Eloi]

MD used to use a confiscated big rig to do the same thing years ago. Renamed the rig as Rubber Duckey Trucking I believe.

In MD it sounds like the agency owned the truck. What bugs me more here is that I don't like private business or citizens being on the government snitch patrol. There is real crime that police should tend to and there are revenue generation activities. Revenue should come from the taxes we already pay. They should then use that money to provide true safety measures. Instead I see law enforcement growing and growing in size and needing more and more money to pay for more and more services of debatable merit. When the flow of traffic on a long stretch of freeway is 80mph, I have a hard time seeing how a CHP car hiding behind a bend and plucking a car off here and there for going 83mph is enhancing safety on that freeway. I think there would be far greater value for that officer to be actively patrolling and working on real threats. Ok, done.

You cant better say ....a consolation is that every country
is doing their show on $peed control

Hungry dogs dont listen to logic ...they just bite .

High ranking officers are so pleased to s** the politicians ...
who in return give them job ....spin the wheel of fortune

The motorists are at the bottom of the food chain ...
only the smartest use the patented equipment

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Well, someone did write a book, "What's The Matter with Kansas?".

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MD used to use a confiscated big rig to do the same thing years ago. Renamed the rig as Rubber Duckey Trucking I believe.

In MD it sounds like the agency owned the truck. What bugs me more here is that I don't like private business or citizens being on the government snitch patrol. There is real crime that police should tend to and there are revenue generation activities. Revenue should come from the taxes we already pay. They should then use that money to provide true safety measures. Instead I see law enforcement growing and growing in size and needing more and more money to pay for more and more services of debatable merit. When the flow of traffic on a long stretch of freeway is 80mph, I have a hard time seeing how a CHP car hiding behind a bend and plucking a car off here and there for going 83mph is enhancing safety on that freeway. I think there would be far greater value for that officer to be actively patrolling and working on real threats. Ok, done.

X2!
Its not only Law Enforcement growing but also County, State and Federal workers, bureaucrats, teachers, services, new school/court house buildings, etc.
At some point present tax revenues just can't keep up with the govenment salary demands espeicially considering some to the generous pension plans many government workers enjoy.
Government these days has become a monster of which we the tax payers are required to support at ever increasing tax and other revenue gathering schemes.
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Exactly! I have a couple friends in law enforcement that have retired and started a career in another law enforcement agency to get a second retirement. The benefits and amount of money they make retired is amazing. No wonder California is bankrupt. So tax, tax, tax they go to support bigger government.

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It's in the mail. Wonder if I will get a reply...

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James Welch, CEO, Yellow Transportation
YRC Worldwide Inc.
10990 Roe Ave.
Overland Park, KS

Dear Mr. Welch,

I was dismayed to read that Yellow Transportation is now partnered up with the Kansas Highway Patrol to install cameras and radar equipment in your trucks to spy on private citizens. The newspaper story went on to say the program is expected to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for the highway patrol.

This is a free country so you are free to use your assets as you see fit. I’m also free not to patronize a business that engages in practices to assist government agencies in raising money with dubious revenue generation tactics. Most Americans feel they are taxed enough, and revenue generation through traffic tickets is simply another form of taxation. An officer operating a radar gun from inside your big rig in not enhancing public safety, he is generating income for his agency.

The people I have spoken with have universally had a negative reaction when told about what your company is doing. If your company was expecting good PR from this alliance with the highway patrol, it is not going to happen. The only publicity you are getting online is negative publicity with this stunt.

There are a lot of transportation businesses to choose from. Yellow Transportation no longer will be on my vendor list of choices.

Sincerely,

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It makes me wonder what other surreptitious acts this organization is up to concerning the law and it's customers