Mississippi River pilots under fire

Not enough black Muslim lesbians.

The River Pilots are going to kill the goose laying their golden egg. They all make very lucrative salaries and are politicing often for more money. They should lay low for a couple of years and stay out of the limelight.

What’s the favorite career path?

Should have gone higher when they asked for car allowance money to get to work because $600,000 + a year just don't hack it nowadays.

Not really news. I'm now 68 and every year or two the River Pilots come under fire for their nepotism in hiring practices and how it's pretty much closed off to any minorities, although a few have made their way into the ranks over the last few years to kind of throw water on the coals so to speak.


I know a young man who is around mid 30's now and he's making that half million a year as a River Pilot. Not a bad gig if you have an in, like a dad or uncle who are talking up for you.

All you need to know about this organization is that John Bel Edwards made John Alario's son, who himself is a river pilot, one of the "Examiners" of the "Board of Examiners" for the river pilots.

Literally, everything that is wrong with this organization, and our state government, is encapsulated right there in those facts.

There was a time, before radar, and the other sophisticated navigational equipment, where these pilots were necessary. Today though, it’s nothing but a political power play.

There are captains on tow boats pushing millions of dollars worth of Oil or Jet fuel through metropolitan waterways that make a fraction of these guys and they’re accountable for their performance vs these pilots who are immune and never even take the wheel of the ships that they supposedly assist.
They get onboard, grab a coffee and take a ride. If the vessel crashes into another vessel or hits a stationary structure, it is never the “Pilot’s”
fault as they’re immune. They could get on the radio and bark out orders for other vessels and cause chaos and it still would never be their fault!

The job is no longer necessary. Technology has made them redundant. No one has balls to stand up to them. Nungesser is their bitch too.