Posted on 08/05/2020 1:04:38 PM PDT by rktman
“Our first priority is to support our drivers and their safety when they’re on the road,” Mike Kucharski, co-owner of Summit, Illinois-based JKC Trucking, told the Fox program.
“Defunding the police is a bad idea because when you’re on the road, you have — you’re for weeks and days at a time, driving 11 hours with valuable cargo, everybody wants to steal this.”
On the road, Kucharski said, “there’s no safe place. Violence is everywhere. So, if you’re going to be having valuable cargo and there’s going to be no police to rely on, who’s going to protect our drivers?
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So if cities defund the police...keep the truckers out...let em starve!
TRUCKERS only deliver to states that SUPPORT THEIR POLICE and LAW ENFORCEMENT!~
Why am I envisioning some weird Mad Max scenario on the inner city interstate?
Be armed and safe.
Trucker Lives Matter
The looters have already been raiding train cars.
Been brewing since riot season started.
https://cdllife.com/2020/truck-drivers-say-they-wont-deliver-to-cities-with-defunded-police-departments/
3 days worth of food in cities and then you’re on your own.
Thankful every day for being placed in “the country” part of Texas 30+ years ago.
Re Birth of “Riding Shotgun” and I am sure there are many that will sign on.
No dif than the pirates wherever the shipping lanes are being attacked
It just goes to show you how stupid, incompetent and irresponsible democrats are. They're stupid ideas are always half-assed and poorly thought through. These democrats have proven that they aren't capable of successfully running a hot dog stand let alone a major city.
This is a link in the article to a Vicki McKenna interview with the trucking rep. Vicki McKenna of Milwaukee/Wisconsin is always worth listening to. She is the best not-yet national radio hostess.
The civil behavior of society and commercial environment everywhere is what makes the prosperity of our nation possible. Law enforcement works to make that civility happen. You attack law enforcement, you attack the very fiber of our nation. To extend that logic further:
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS ATTACKING OUR NATION BY ATTACKING LAW ENFORCEMENT. TO VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT IS TO ATTACK OUR NATION . . . OUTRIGHT TREASON!!!!!!
Rail Roads also. Rail is interconnected with the trucking industry.
Truck depots are deliveries are more often than not in run down areas. I wouldn’t blame any trucking company to bail on a city who doesn’t protect them.
New career; Tail-gunner on a bread truck.
Arm your drivers!!!
And ships and planes.
The reason WHY the left wants to defund police is SO THAT the “oppressed” underclass will take what is “rightfully” theirs from their “oppressors.”
His first priority is making money, not taking care of the drivers. Sorry, but that is the way the industry operates. Nice sentiment though-- truckers wish it were true, but it's not. A trucker could refuse to haul if he is working for a company. Then he'll get jammed with VERY undesirable loads that don't make money. Yes, there is retribution.
High value cargo is handled specially, to include check-ins, backing up to walls when you sleep, and constant monitoring. So there is mitigation.
There are a handful of companies that could literally stop the show: Werner, Schneider, and Swift. But they won't. Too much money, they will accept the risks.
Owner operators or anyone under a lease agreement could make a difference, but only temporary-- the big companies will take their freight and they will be out of a job once "freight agreement" documents are made, which are one step down from a contract.
If the trucking companies were unified, it would work. But they are not-- to include demographics. If you will not haul it, the Mexican, Russian, Indian, Pakistani, or whoever, will.
So don't look for a trucking siege. Especially in a trucking recession, which it has been for some time because everyone loves cheap freight.
I know what you mean. Money talks and...............
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