Kansas Bureaucracy

I try not to operate through states with too much bureaucracy, because if it takes too much of my time to complete paperwork for that state, it's probably not worth the effort. At a cross-road, I did my calculation and from KS-city to the Los Angeles, CA area the best shortest and most cost-effective way for me was to run through Kansas, but as I remember it, I could have avoided it altogether by simply going around. I called and purchased a Temporary Trip Permit, not before I was assured NOT to receive any additional correspondence from Kansas regarding the matter. (The undeniable exception being that I would report all gallons purchased and miles travelled through KS to IFTA) Obviously this was NOT enough... I was sent out a 6-page application that needed to be completed and sent back to KS by either e-mail, fax, web, or mail.

The following, is the letter I sent out to Kansas via e-mail at: pvd_mctax@kdor.state.ks.us

Dear Kansas Representative,

I do not operate through KS on
a usual basis. I have been in business for some years now, but I have only
entered in KS once in 2008, when I entered, I purchased a trip permit, as you
can see attached to this e-mail. Those were the only miles I have ever run
through KS and the reason is to avoid unnecessary paperwork, which I was assured
upon purchasing this permit, I will not have to complete, since KS is NOT on my
CAB CARD.

Although I was assured I will not receive future
correspondence, the bureaucrats will always remain at their lying best.
Here is a completed form W9-N769. Please remove me from any future
mailings. I do NOT wish to receive them in the future. I will do my
best to AVOID your state (Kansas) in the future. I moved to this country
to be FREE, but communism is making its way into the hearts of FREE-Born people,
which are giving in little by little without realizing the little freedoms given
up.

I don’t understand why it is I have to disclose such
information as to the purchase price of my vehicle that I was already taxed on
10 years ago. Do you want to tax me on THAT value? Why do you need
to know all my business? I pay my taxes, I report the mileage &
gallons I run through all the states and I pay that to IFTA so that I would NOT
have to do this. Isn’t THAT why IFTA has been established? Why do
you need me to complete paperwork with my phone number and address, if you sent
the paperwork to me at that address? Why do you ask for my phone number,
when I gave that to you upon purchasing the Temp. Trip Permit? Why do you
want my MC & USDOT numbers, when you have access to all that information
online at the FMCSA website? http://li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov/LIVIEW/pkg_carrquery.prc_carrlist
I’ve also attached a copy of today’s copy of what they show for my
record. Why do I update the MC-150 form with FMCSA every 1-2 years? –so
you can ask me for the same information again every quarter or how often WILL
Kansas send me these forms?This business has become nothing more than the
avenues for bureaucrats to make money off the backs of the struggling
truck-driver’s dedicating themselves at the cost of the time with their families
so that they can make more money and regardless the economic situation, the
taxes do NOT fail to raise while at it. Isn’t that what business is all
about? Making money? What, isn’t bureaucracy a
BUSINESS?

Well, let me know if you have received these files and if
they will be enough information for you.

Thank You,
Marcel Suciu
Diamond Seven
Express
20995 W. Prospector Way
Buckeye, AZ
85396-7686


MC# 584243


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