CONNECTING THE..... D O T S...... PART 2

D..O..T..S.. in this case refers to the Uinted States Department of Transportation.

This blog has been in existance for a month and has explored so many avenues of possible help or probable obstruction of help to victims of HIHWAY HIJACKING.

From the hopelessly ineffectual BBB to the pathetic non-effort of local police departments to the futile ASMA and the individual victims themselves calling the criminals who are holding their goods hostage while demanding ransom payments.

After all these fruitless efforts and the hundreds of e mails and phone call I have received from other victims like myself I have concluded the chief culprit,by far, in this shocking broad daylight hijacking is:

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

Read through the testimony they gave to congressional investigating committees as published in yesterdays blog Connecting th Dots.

They spent weeks patting themselves on the back for all the new subcommittees they formed and the "strike Forces" they employed to make the household goods movers more compliant.

The result is that 4 years after the hearings the problem is now an epidemic and your chance of getting through an interstate move today without being hijacked and extorted are much less than 30%. iT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH CARRIER YOU CHOOSE,HOW YOU RESEARCH THEM, GOOGLE THEM, YAHOO THEM, CALL AND SEEK REASSURANCE FROM THEM BEFORE AND AFTER OR DURING THE MOVE,CALL THE POLICE, THE FBI,THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, YOUR LOCAL REP IN D.C.,.

WHY???

I am going to tell you why so listen carefully:

Because HIGHWAY HIJACKING is probably the only crime where you cannot have the criminal arrested during the actual commission of the crime. period,dot,comma,question mark and ad infinitum.

IT IS A SIMPLE AS THAT.

If you plan a move a month from today from Point A TO Point B 500 miles away in another state and you make up your mind you will not be a victim you are fooling yourself.

Lets say PODUNK MOVING CO picks up all your furniture,appliances and personal goods at Point A and agrees to deliver them to Point B 3 TO 4 days later. sounds reasonable doesn't it? Surely a mover that is licensed and registered by and with the trusted folks at DOT, respected member of BBB and ASMA can travel 500 miles in 3 to 4 days and deliver your goods,right?

WRONG!

They will pick up your goods at Point A without a problem , put your goods in a warehouse, call you three weeks later and ask for RANSOM to free your goods they are holding hostage.

In the meantime you call the Govt Agency which licensed and registered them and what do you get?

You get referred to hundreds of sites,agencies and "STRIKE FORCES" that DOT has spent billions of Taxpayer's dollars so as to deal with a catastrophic situation like this. And just like the agencies that responded to the victims of Katrina in New Orleans they won't even drop you some water from a chopper.

Go back and read the testimony (published in yesterday's blog) that DOT gave to Congress as to how successful they have been in bringing Movers into compliance with regulations.They fined 40 movers in 2006, 40 out of thousands who routinely engage in hostage taking.

The ONLY enforcement DOT actually does is to enforce arbitration by the perpetrators "AFTER THE FACT",i.de. after the crime has run its course and your goods are delivered anywhere from one month to 6 months later.

Ask yourself. You are having coffee and notice through the storefront window someone breaking into your auto and driving away with it. You run outside,call a cop you see directing traffic, and scream to him that your car has just been stolen. Instead of that cop radioing ahead to his fellow policemen, he comes over and hands you a leaflet with agencies who will help you arbitrate with the car thief after you find your car?

Or even more graphic, you are mugged as a cop looks on and he says "don't worry, I will testify in court on your behalf that you have been victimized"

Sounds ludicrous but in effect that is what happens when a Highway Hijacking takes place.

I will pick up on this thread in detail in the days ahead.