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Thread ID: 91317	2008-07-03 01:33:00	Stay out of Auckland CBD tomorrow(friday 4th july)	lance4k (4644)	PC World Chat

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684842	2008-07-03 03:02:00	Truck drivers protesting on behalf of the couriers? that doesn't make much sense. Courier firms move packages between cities on trucks, so they are affected, as is the entire economy, Everything in this country goes by road, so expect to feel the hit, Road user charges go into the consolidated fund and are then spent wherever the communist scum see fit. NZ has just been hit by a tax increase. Bizarre thing to do in an election year.... :groan: I guess they're counting on the masses (read: unthinking Labour supporters) not to see it for what it is and not to realise that it's going to hit them in the pocket as much as the 'rich pricks' earning more than $40K p.a. Unless Labour have changed their philosophy from "we know best" to "kamakazi"??? One can but hope!!! :)	johcar (6283)
684843	2008-07-03 04:24:00	I gues the Gov has to jack up the price of road transport now they own a railroad!!	paulw (1826)
684844	2008-07-03 04:25:00	Labours mindset is jammed in this rut where they burden the workers and businesses to prop up a minority section of society, they cripple us by spending billions on the rail, And then burden us even further by obscene taxes on business. Meanwhile record payout are being made........ This is a disaster taking place all around us, Their will be a pay-off, that payoff is called recession,and it will hit hard.	Metla (12)
684845	2008-07-03 14:24:00	The reason Rail Freight is unpopular for general merchandise is that goods still have to be moved by road at each end, and consequently rail freight carries more handling costs, is not as fast door to door, and on past history suffered more damage and pilferage than door to door road freight. The socialist mindset is to tax vehicle use at every opportunity, ignoring that every increase in transport costs get handed on in the price of goods, thus increasing inflation, wage pressures, and of course this is then dealt with by pushing up interest rates to curb the very inflation that the Government created	KenESmith (6287)
684846	2008-07-03 14:33:00	And to top it off, alcohol has now gone up too. I think they realise they wont win the next election and are just gettiong as much money as they can steal off us. F.... there is just not a swear word invented yet that could describe my hatred for the guv.	rob_on_guitar (4196)
684847	2008-07-03 21:21:00	I think they realise they wont win the next election and are just gettiong as much money as they can steal off us. F.... there is just not a swear word invented yet that could describe my hatred for the guv. If that were the case why would Labour start taxing now so that the next government would have more money? Do you really think that this Government has done something to you that the next Government won't?	PaulD (232)
684848	2008-07-03 21:21:00	just got into work this mornining and in Invercargill Tay Street outside the Southern institure of technology is CLOGGED totally by trucks of all shapes and sizes! its brilliant! why? cause they are LEAVING invercargill and i was ENTERING invercargill so no delays for me :thumbs: but seriously nothing is more awe inspiring than 50-70 trucks all in line honking their horns and revving their engines - its brilliant! nothing compared to aucklands trouble - i hear there isint any room to breate this morning on the motorways :D still great fun to watch none the less :thumbs:	MAC_H8ER (5897)
684849	2008-07-03 21:36:00	If that were the case why would Labour start taxing now so that the next government would have more money? Do you really think that this Government has done something to you that the next Government won't? With that logic nothing would get done . Deal with the 'now' then maybe the future may get better . They are all a pack of ******s anyway . All of them . Useless . Id love it if they proved me wrong .	rob_on_guitar (4196)
684850	2008-07-03 22:42:00	From the Herald "Mr Duynhoven scoffed at a suggestion by Mr Williamson that it could push up the running cost of a 20-tonne truck by $56,000 a year. "I am advised that for that figure to be even remotely possible, the most common type of 20-tonne truck would need to travel at an average of 330km/h - that is, over 200 miles an hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. What utter twaddle." " (Williamson is the genius who will save Broadband :D ) For a 20 tonne trunk the extra RUC is about 2c per km. Slowing down to 90kph would save more than enough to cover that.	PaulD (232)
684851	2008-07-04 00:15:00	just got into work this mornining and in Invercargill Tay Street outside the Southern institure of technology is CLOGGED totally by trucks of all shapes and sizes! its brilliant! why? cause they are LEAVING invercargill and i was ENTERING invercargill Yeah i had a laugh this morning zooming through town (to drop kids at school) past all the trucks heading the other way, until I spotted them on tweed street then had to zoom through a pile of side streets, unfortunatly once dropping the kids off I had to back track a bit and got stuck in the 5kmh procession from Herbert Street to bay road, I haven't driven in first gear so much since i learnt to drive Not that i overly object to the protest, I have a diesel Car (a holden Astra Hatchback, probably the smallest diesel you can get), so if it is a 3 tonne and above levy thing then i should be okayish	Morgenmuffel (187)
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