On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, William S. Lear wrote: > On Wed, August 6, 1997 at 22:45:28 (-0700) Michael Eisenscher writes: > >Houston Police Announce "Zero Tolerance" for Management-Driven UPS Trucks > > > >Houston police officers, members of the Houston Police Patrolmen's Union, > >announced today that they would be on the lookout for UPS trucks driven by > >management personnel and would pull them over for any violations. "Once the > >HPPU member gets the vehicle stopped they are instructed to go into a 'zero > >tolerance' mode and cite each and every violation of the law they find," the > >union said in a statement. > > I'm all for the UPS workers in this one, but does this last part > bother anybody else? I live outside of Houston and driving in to work this morning I heard about this. There are something like 7 or 8 police unions in Houston. The union that made this statement (they reportedly faxed it to every station and sub-station) is one of the smaller ones. The biggest union has denounced it. The local wrong-wing talk radio host is using it as one more thing to beat up on unions with. (He's been dragging out all the old pre-federal intervention corruption at the Teamsters and talking about it as though it was news from last week.) And yes, I do think it's a nasty little idea. But also a somewhat amusing one. I used to mop floors at UPS and they are fanatical about their trucks being in perfect repair and completely street legal. Pulling over the truck and inspecting it is not likely to yield anything. I have noticed, however, that Houston is the only place I've ever lived where UPS drivers speed and weave in and out of lanes. Then again, most Houstonians drive very aggressively. Go Teamsters! -joe -- Joseph Noonan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
