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OpinionNovember 4, 2001

To the editor: I read in Speak Out where our Missouri Department of Transportation spent $870,000 on heavy-equipment competitions for safety and pre-trip inspectors. I cannot understand what our transportation leaders are doing. They are getting paid for this, so why should we have to put out extra money?...

To the editor:

I read in Speak Out where our Missouri Department of Transportation spent $870,000 on heavy-equipment competitions for safety and pre-trip inspectors.

I cannot understand what our transportation leaders are doing. They are getting paid for this, so why should we have to put out extra money?

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I seems that MoDOT spends an awful lot of money on entertainment, vehicles, airplanes and general nonsense.

Why do they need more money? So they can have bigger parties. I guess that's OK. It's just taxpayers' money.

ROBERT BONNEY

Jackson, Mo.

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