See you never read stories like this from Alabama or Mississippi.

No, no, no. You see - hiring consultants is Capitalism. Capitalism is good. Hiring bus drivers is increasing the size of government. Government is bad.  Simple, right?

Couldn't that $199,000 be used to hire a few more drivers? 

This. I’m not saying this particular cancellation was justified or handled correctly, but as someone who works for an insurance company, if we’re going to be on the hook for potentially 6-7 figures in the event of a loss, we want to know as best we can how much of a risk we’re taking. Checking on condition/maintenance…

I can pretty much guarantee that Corvair hasn’t been worked on for years. The guy is clearly a hoarder. I can only imagine what the inside of the house is like. Your “poor guy got uninsured for restoring a car” take is quite a stretch.

100% Agreed. I read the title was prepared to be mad at the insurance company, but after seeing the photo, I get it.

To be fair, from the one picture I see of his driveway, he does have an unreasonable amount of debris all over the place. The insurance company basically acted as the HOA here (which I normally despise), this guy’s driveway looks like a hoarders junkyard with enough space to fit a car between the piles of trash.

Just looking at that picture, I’d say that there are much larger issues spread all around his house than his Corvair restoration project.

Said it numerous times - here and elsewhere - that sedans, coupes, and wagons were a bubble and the automobile is returning to their historic form factor. It took a few decades, but once the jet age ran its course, we were going back.

BSNF made $6 billion net in 2022. They can’t hire a handful more inspectors??

Dead passengers and lost track days are obviously cheaper than adequate staffing to those making the money off of it.

...the track inspector said he had been “covering four positions most of the summer.” When asked how he managed the workload, he replied, “A lot of seven-day work weeks” and that he had been averaging 100 hours of work per week.

This is the kind of thing that prevents people from getting into trains and supporting mass transit. It’s sad that our infrastructure is literally the worst in the world and nobody wants to see that change, not even the people who are supposedly making money off all this.

I make a solid wage but I’m not paying 50k for ANYTHING, much less a vehicle that can only go 60% of the range of my current car.

They are, for the most part, significantly more expensive then their ICE counterparts. Wanna buy a $41,000 Platinum trim Nissan Rogue AWD? That Platinum AWD Ariya is $62,000. A Tesla Model 3 at $40,000 or a loaded Toyota Corolla Hybrid for $27,000. Biggest issue is manufacturers not producing the smaller cheaper…

The disparity from CEO to worker pay is at an all-time high. All of those profits are generated by the workers and not the CEO, especially when it’s not a founding CEO.

#1: This is why I feel like registration fees should be based on the vehicle’s weight. Heavier vehicles do so much more damage to the roads and other infrastructure than ones that are “reasonably sized” (IE: At or around 4k lbs or 17 American washing machines or 91428 Kinder Eggs for those of you that speak metric.)

I think more than anything a lot of the EVs are not selling because a lot of the poor sellers are just retrofitted ICE platforms that force a lot of concessions compared to EVs that have their own platform. your Teslas are still selling as are your Bolts. 

“For a lot of people, that third row is the No. 1 reason for purchase,”

Its nice. But I don’t see $600k worth of anything here.