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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Each state should create their own security department for in state flights
Each state should create their own security department for in state flights. This would really be great for Alaska and Hawaii because aviation is a major industry. In Alaska their are a lot of in state flights. The state of Alaska should form the Alaska Security Agency they would make policy and decide whether search on in state. The Transportation Security Agency should only be for interstate flight and international flights only. Please tell your congressman and US Senator you want the state of Alaska and Hawaii allow them to create their own security agency for in state flight. The TSA should not be allowed to screen or search if the flight is from Anchorage to Kodiak for instance.
World Criminal Court is looking for Joseph Kony
World Criminal Court is looking for Joseph Kony. This piece trash is charge of the Lord's Resistance Army. This moron is just as bad as Osama Bin Laden. What really made me mad about creep is he abducted male children to fight against many African nations. He also has traffic girls for prostitution which really got me on this case. I thank the Invisible Children for bringing this to my attention. I hope America's Most Wanted will profile this creep often and people in Africa watching the show on Lifetime and sometimes on FOX will see him and turn him in the national authorities in the African nations.
America should have a national rebate program based on surplus revenues
Alaskans received a record dividend in 2008. Alaska has a permanent fund dividend program since 1976 based on earnings in the fund to their residence. They use it to conduct a census to repay government agencies from people who owe child support and other agencies. Give people more money each year in a form of a rebate will actually let me know that people spend their money better than the government. Unlike the Alaska Permanent Fund which are paid to welfare and social supplementary income recipients. They would have to sign a waiver that gives their rebate checks to the agency that gave them their monthly checks to receive assistance otherwise this is double dipping they also would have their child rebate checks as well. Imagine getting a yearly check from the government like Alaskans do. You pay taxes every year should government give something back to you instead of funding their pork barrel projects. This could be used to conduct a census of the country can used every ten years for congressional redistricting.
Have bars and liquors stores open 24 hours a day
If you have bars and liquors stores open 24 hours a day if they choose will reduce drunk driving. Seattle is going to try to have liquor sold 24 hours a day. This is not a bad idea plus if one places has bar closing people go to a place that does not or the bar closes later. This also reduces illegal activity by have the bars and liquors open 24 hours a day. If you eliminate the drinking age like they do in Europe this will reduce the bad behavior of drunkenness. It would also ease taxis where other areas of town can be covered in a timely manner. It would make it easier for a customer to get to the airport in a timely manner.
Quest Cards should only be accepted at major retailers in Alaska
Quest Cards should only be allowed to be accepted at major retail stores only. During a recent visit I had in Washington State unless you are a supermarket you can not accept Quest cards at all. The exception if you are in the Alaska Bush or a small unincorporated community within 20 miles or more from a community over 1,000 people in population. This will prevent fraud on the Quest Card system. Most mom and pop stores do not have a way to train people how to properly be able to take Quest Card. Cashiers before you are allowed to use the Quest card must ask for ID they also are more likely to fraud the system by allowing the participant to have more cash on hand then allowed by Quest Card rules. We also need to not allowed Quest Cards to used at pull tabs and casinos. Recently California and Washington have pull all Quest Card machines from pull tab places and casinos. If an Alaskan receives Quest Card for cash benefits they should be required to sign over their Alaska Permanent Fund dividend and everyone in their household including their children. All the Quest clients should be ankle monitored so if someone does risky activity then their benefits shall be cancelled immediately.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Anchorage Transportation Commission is looking for customers who are dissatisfied with quality of dispatch staff
Anchorage Transportation Commission are looking for customers who are dissatisfied with the quality of service the dispatch staff at Alaska Yellow Cab has provided. Recently, they raised their dispatch stand rent effective March 1, 2012 to $1000 for taxi. Since they will not repair the equipment after hours in order to do their shift. The systems manager refuses to clear his voice mail to allow people to leave a message making him not available. The taxi are only not going to receive $1000 a month service they are only receiving $350 a month. When a customer makes a complaint on a driver. It is not acted on in an timely manner. They also do not handle complaints in a timely manner. They have been know to use foul language when a customer gets mad at them instead of attempting to calm the customer down. When a customer ask when they will they get their cab they say as soon as we can instead of giving an estimate time of arrival. I guess when the highest management such as Regina Doyle and Ron Lane also used foul language when talking to customers. Complaints have gotten ignore or have not been addressed by the dispatch staff and manager. Cab drivers have complained for over 8 years they have had a hard time reaching dispatch unless I was behind the desk. Drivers for the last couple of years have complained that unless they are at a geographic center they either have to hit the meter on and off to get another trip since they could not void the trip because of not being at geographical center of the trip. They also have a 30 minute unjust rapid meter penalty to the next trip. Unless a dispatcher looks at each trip and determine should hit the rapid meter override before the driver calls for the dispatcher to do it. I always automatically hit the rapid meter override if location is a strip mall, trailer park and a apartment complex and W Dimond Blvd and E Tudor Rd due to not being at geographic center. This 30 minute rapid meter penalty should destroyed because it is an injustice to driver. Dispatcher should work with the drivers not against them or play god over them. Remember without drivers you have no cab company. If you have had a hard time dealing with the dispatch staff you can call Eric Musser at the Anchorage Transportation Inspection office at (907) 786-8525. If they gets enough complaints then they can perform a quality of service investigation at Alaska Yellow Cab. You can e-mail them at wwti@muni.org state your complaint to them. This will give Anchorage better quality of service and make Alaska Yellow Cab accountable
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Anchorage Dispatch employees should be required to have safety training
According to AMC 11.40.054 Anchorage dispatch employees must be familiar with emergency notification and their training programs must be approved by the Transportation Commission currently both Anchorage companies Alaska Yellow Cab and Anchorage Checker Cab are not in compliance with this statue. Their has never been a training plan approved by the Anchorage Transportation Commission by both companies. We require that cab driver must take a course to familiar with Title 11 this is not done by the dispatch companies. The training is pretty you throw them on without a test. They should be required to take the test but must have 80% in order to be able to dispatch a cab. Safety is the most important in this business. It seems that Alaska Yellow Cab management for the last seven years has never cared about. It is not just Regina Doyle but Ron Lane as well.
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