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Hi. Quick question. I live in Kansas, and I’m traveling 3 hours tomorrow (but still within the state) to pick up a used car from an individual, not a dealer.
How do I go about this? My truck’s down, so I can’t trailer it. I’ll be riding up with my husband, and driving the other car home myself (he’ll obviously drive his car home).
I’m thinking it’s illegal to put a tag on this car from another vehicle. I can get proof of insurance by then. Do I need to get a 30 day tag- if so, how? Or can I just drive home without a tag? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Voting Question: Is this guy crazy: Wisconsin dad drives all the way to Kansas each week to hang on to a job in tough times?
JANESVILLE, Wis. – In the early dawn, after another week building cars, Michael Hanley leaves his job in Kansas. He quickly zips into Missouri, then heads up a ribbon of highway past grain silos and grazing deer, across the frozen fields of Iowa, over the Mississippi River and into the rolling hills of Wisconsin. Finally, he pulls into his driveway — 530 miles later.
It’s one heck of a haul: more than 1,000 miles roundtrip, 16-plus hours of driving, every week.
“I like to say I gave up an eight-minute commute for an eight-hour commute,” he says wearily, running a hand though salt-and-pepper hair as he watches his two sons play basketball for the first time this season.
After the aging General Motors plant where he worked for 23 years was idled about a year ago, Hanley faced a Hobson’s choice: Stay with his family and search for an autoworker’s salary ($28 an hour) in a county where more than 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs disappeared from 2006 to 2009. Or hang on to his GM paycheck and health insurance and follow the job, no matter where it leads.
In his case, it led to Fairfax, Kan., the same place his brother and two brothers-in-law — also GM workers, and now his roommates — landed. For others, it has been Indiana or Texas.
The long commute is not just a story of hard times, tough choices and a shrinking American auto industry. It’s also a case study of what happens when an aging industrial town loses an anchor, when workers too old to start over and too young to retire are caught in a squeeze and when economic survival means one family, but two far-flung ZIP codes.
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Hanley is not one to complain.
“GM has been good for us,” he says. “This whole town knows that.”
For 90 years, the sprawling plant — it started out building tractors — became a different kind of family business. Through the decades, sons followed fathers onto the line, sometimes rubbing shoulders as they built Chevy Cavaliers, Caprices, Tahoes, Suburbans and more.
Hanley’s father and brother worked there. So did his father-in-law, two brothers-in-law and an assortment of uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.
But as GM’s financial troubles mounted, car and SUV sales fell and gas prices climbed, the automaker closed several plants, eliminating thousands of jobs.
Janesville — then the oldest of GM assembly plants — ended production of SUVs in December 2008, months before the automaker received billions of dollars in government loans and filed for bankruptcy. (The factory is on standby status; some hold out hope it will reopen one day.)
Some of about 1,200 remaining workers took buyouts or retired; some began new careers. Hundreds more stayed with GM, relocating, commuting or just waiting for an opening. The automaker has about 6,500 laid-off workers nationwide.
Even before the doors closed, Hanley began preparing for life after GM. He returned to college to complete two credits he needed for an accounting degree, but an offer in Kansas came first.
He didn’t hesitate. Auto work these days is like playing musical chairs. You grab an opening where you can.
Hanley didn’t want to lose his health insurance while his wife, Laura, was receiving costly chemotherapy treatments for a blood disease that will likely lead to cancer. The medical bills last year, she says, were in the tens of thousands of dollars.
“There’s no way I could possibly go through one treatment without him having insurance,” she says.
Like many other divided GM families, the Hanleys decided even though the job was important, there were reasons not to uproot everyone: Laura works at their sons’ Catholic school, the boys are immersed in band, Scouts, basketball and church, and the sale of a house was an iffy and perhaps money-losing proposition.
Hanley knew it would be a trade-off — financial security for a lonely existence.
His eyes mist as he talks about what he misses: dinner with his family, coaching basketball, going to the YMCA with his boys, wrestling with them at night, attending their concerts and games, watching them grow up.
“It’s an adjustment, not being home,” he says. “I probably sounded cruel because I said I wouldn’t miss my wife as much because she’s going to be there when I come back, when I retire. But those years with the kids aren’t going to be there. That’s the hard part, not being able to be around them. … I don’t know if I really appreciated it before.”
Hanley plans to commute another 18 months, until he turns 50, hoping for a retirement package then — something, he says, he “prays about every night.”
Laura, meanwhile, does double duty as a single parent. It’s all overwhelming — working, shuttling her sons around, keeping an eye on her elderly mother and worrying about her husband’s long commutes.
“The kids are tired of seeing mom cry because she’s stressed and seeing dad cry when he needs to go back to work,” she says. “We’re really close — the four of us. You can’t talk to
Resolved Question: Why do we have speed limits on limited access interstate highways in the United States when Germany does not?
Seriously, the United States is supposedly the “land of the free”. Well, I for one ain’t buying it. For example, how in the h*ll do law enforcement officers figure that driving 85 MPH on the interstate in middle of nowhere Kansas is somehow “unsafe”? Why can’t we Americans be sensible like the Germans and have no speed limits on the interstate highways where it can be safely done? I can understand having speed limits on the interstates that go through major cities and whatnot, but having a 70 MPH speed limit through Kansas or Missouri is just plain stupid in my opinion. The only downside to not having rural interstate speed limits would be the fact that alot of state troopers would be out of jobs and the individual states would lose alot of money in “speeding” ticket revenue. Furthermore, the car insurance industry would be PO’d because they wouldn’t have an excuse to raise someone’s rates due to these “speeding” tickets and would lose revenue. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for common sense laws such as laws against DUI, robbery, etc., but I don’t understand how a supposedly “free” country like the U.S. interferes so much with its citizens on the pettiest of issues. I think that Americans need to learn to lighten up and not be so uptight. BTW, you can even buy and own firearms in Germany contrary to the belief of many Americans.
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