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...As trucker Omar Alvarez recently declared in an opinion piece: “The real shortage is a shortage of good, union jobs that fairly compensate workers and treat us with the dignity and respect we deserve.”...
...Extra time inside also caused more wear and tear, he noted, increasing the need for repair and maintenance....
...In that regard, we are most positive about infrastructure followed by repair, maintenance and improvements (RMI)....
...These include maintenance, depreciation, security, IT, insurance, theft, regulation and developer costs, and must all be passed on to fleet managers in a shared-mobility model, cutting into affordability...
...Elsewhere on Friday, — A history of prizefighting’s biggest money fights (John S Nash): While Mayweather’s bouts with Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez set records, it was his match with Manny Pacquiao...
...Related links: Shared mobility V.1, USSR edition – FT Alphaville Do the economics of self-driving taxis actually make sense? – FT Alphaville Who are Tesla’s competitors, really?...
...Another analyst, Francisco Mezzadri, reckons it will take until 2030 to restore to Argentina’s power generating capacity a comfortable reserve margin to cope with sporadic peaks in power use or maintenance...
...It says that “in addition to pro-rata remuneration, only costs directly linked to the maintenance and protection of investments, for example retrieval of or compensation for lost assets, should be charged...
...Because of long lead times, even aircrafts still on multiyear contracts from the US, such as Bell Boeing’s V-22 tilt rotor, a helicopter propeller aircraft hybrid, need to quickly secure international customers...
...The Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey is another. It is astonishingly capable, but also astonishingly expensive, as only military machinery can be....
...Mr Alvarez had been considered a likely replacement for Jim Skinner, chief executive, who is nearing retirement....
...There’s the maintenance, the regulatory compliance… “You’ve got to have a big team supporting it and, if you’ve only got one jet, you’re then adding huge costs to what’s already a fixed asset.”...
...Some time soon the notoriously liberal ninth circuit federal appeals court in California will hear arguments in the case of Women v Wal-Mart (official name: Dukes v Wal-Mart Stores)....
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