Posted on 05/27/2008 5:52:20 AM PDT by captjanaway
As Congress continues to badger oil companies, placing the blame of high gas prices squarely on the executives' shoulders while ignoring their own liability, the trucking industry saw the demise of Jevic Transportation. Jevic, based in Delanco, New Jersey, announced on May 19th it was parking its trucks and shutting its doors due to increased diesel fuel costs, economic downturn and increasing insurance rates.Founded in 1981 and employing 1,230 truck drivers, the company has filed for Chapter 11.
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If they blame the high price of oil on oil companies, why don’t they blame the high price of food on farmers?..................
And what is that current Congressional approval rating again?
Trucking rates have skyrocketed along w/fuel. If you like $4/gal, Thank the Sierra Club.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Good luck getting any help from any politician.
“Trucking rates have skyrocketed along w/fuel.”
Well, certainly not at the same pace. That lag will shut down smaller companies and obviously some larger ones. The rates are not where fuel is right now, for a large part.
But don’t them reindeers look happy since they ain’t got to see no big ole scary oil wells.
As damaging as the last pipeline was, if we add two more pipelines we will be surrounded in caribou. Free caribou burgers for everyone!
If you are inclined, please go to americansolutions.com and sign the petition to start drilling for oil in the US. I saw Newt on Fox this AM.
"...Crete Carrier and its reefer division, Shaffer Trucking, (located in Lincoln, Nebraska) recently banned pets from their trucks in order to reduce idling.The average truck burns a gallon of diesel fuel per hour when idling and, according to the new policy, a driver with a pet idles 4% more than those without. This means, of course, many drivers have lost the trusted, furry companion who provides friendship and security to the trucker who often spends weeks away from home. Many drivers have left Crete/Shaffer instead of abandoning their pet, while others have either found new homes for them and, in one extreme case overheard at the Wilmer, Texas Shaffer terminal, a driver with no family had to have his dog put to sleep in order to keep his job in the tight driver market.It is a "blame Fred the basset hound" solution that does nothing but create animosity and stress to a workforce (the American trucker) already overloaded with rules and regulations that go beyond what would be expected from the average office worker.Imagine the outrage if the climate controlled air conditioning system housing the dispatch office was turned off during each lunch break and at the end of the workday."
I found this part more interesting:
"Large carriers such as Schneider National (Green Bay, Wisconsin) have reduced the maximum speed allowed on their trucks.Now governed at 60 miles per hour, the slower trucks will, theoretically, use less diesel fuel.One must look back at the 1970s when the Federal government, under Democrat president Jimmy Carter, mandated the national speed limit be lowered to 55 miles per hour. It was a concept that did nothing to ease the dependency on oil."
It'll be interesting to see whether trucks actually do slow down.
Many of these larger companies have the truck’s engines “governed” at a certain speed. You cannot go any faster if you wanted to, unless you’re going down hill and coasting...... Apparently, Schneider and others have turned theirs down to make the trucks go even slower...
But 90 percent of these “Teamsters” will pull the Dumbocrat lever anyway.
I have two brothers who are truckdrivers. They have “tattlers” in their truck that track fuel mileage, speed, idling time, location, etc. They get a bonus for saving fuel and get fines for going over the speed limit.
That’s the sad part. when I listen on my CB, the truckers all seem to be conservative, but vote dem. Go figure.
Schneider hasnt allowed its trucks over 60 for years now. They also have a global positioning device on each of its trucks that tell them where their trucks are as well as shut them down at the end of each drivers alloted drive time. No cheating on driver logs that way.
I was told this past weekend that Schneider is to shut down. Expect some bare shelves this summer if these large company trucking outfits quit.
They are UNION. At least the large firm drivers are.
That happens AFTER the Glorious Socialist Revolution, comrade. Only then, we go after the kulaks.
And by voting dem they think they are furthering their cause but nothing could be further from the truth.
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