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Claims to be sent from Wright Express stating: “customer issue, wright express service frozen. please call at 303-325-7300.” Drivers should NOT respond to this message. Wright Express will never ask for personal information via e-mail, text message, or phone, unless a customer initiates the contact. If your drivers receive a request to provide this type of information, they should not respond. Drivers should NOT share their DID, PIN, debit/credit card numbers, or passwords with anyone. Hot news form the land of fruits and nuts! Last week’s Work Truck Online reported that the California Air Resources Board is coughing up over $20 million, that’s $20,000,000 of you like all the zeros, to motivate fleet operators to buy hybrids. The program called the Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project plans to dole out $10k to $45k to the first few lucky winners to run into their local hybrid truck or bus dealer screaming “I want my free government money” and purchase an eligible new hybrid truck or bus. Now if California were so flushed with cash that they were paving the streets with ecologically friendly 22 carrot gold, then spread the wealth and give the fleet guys a chunk. Truth is California taxed, regulated, and restricted it’s self to bankruptcy. Businesses and the provider class of the population have moved on the greener pastures (pun intended). Perhaps the thinking is that, like GM, California is big to fail. Washington will swoop in and give a third of the state to the labor unions, keep a third for themselves and let Sacramento share the other third with CARB and their Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project. Deliverance shall be upon them. (MUTCD)? I’d guess these are the folks in some obscure wing of some government office building that came up with such earth shattering decisions like the color and shape of stop signs and the cryptic wordless restroom door signs the leave you wondering if you’re...

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