Somebody talks a lot, and no one wants to read his 2000 word punishment essay. No matter what side he is on
Good point there.......
Good information. I especially like the part about non-truckers “talking it up” at the grocery store, etc.
I do agree that hindering or stopping completely Fuel Deliveries would be the fastest route for causing an Oh Shit moment in New York, New York has always been hostile to the Petroleum Product Producers. they should join in and REFUSE ALL SALES to the State so New Yorkers can Freeze to Death in the name of Global Warming.
Appreciate the analysis, but it won’t work. I don’t know if you are from the Tri-State area, but the sheer size of the population here almost ensures this won’t work. You may have several hundred truckers participate, and still nobody will notice.
I’d love to see a successful trucker’s boycott of NYC. I just doubt it’s possible. A friend of mine runs a small trucking company. 30-40% of his business runs into the NYC market. And when I say market, I mean within a 100 mile radius of NYC. If all his drivers suddenly refuse NYC, he’s out of business, and they’re out of a job. I’d say most of them are Trump voters, including the owner.
The point is, a good number of drivers, or for that matter small trucking companies, are in no position to refuse loads to NYC, no matter how much they want to. I applaud the owner-operators who are able to turn down the stray long distance load into NYC. Good for them; screw NYC. However, much of the truck traffic into NYC is regional, and those drivers’ livelihoods depend on NYC freight.
Five facts one might consider.
1. Long before this came up, if you asked individual truckers...90-percent are fairly negative about delivering into NY City (tolls, traffic, congestion).
2. You don’t need 50-percent of participation...in fact, if just a quarter of drivers said ‘no’...goods would get in but the pricing scheme would go up. So a can of Coke would probably start in 10 days to be $3.50 each.
3. There’s no huge numbers of trucks or truckers today...as existing in the 1980s. Recruitment is today a continual thing with companies, and most truckers don’t want to be on 14-day schedules. A majority will tell you that east coast cities (Philly, NY, Boston) are major issues.
4. Various companies will find drivers to make the route, but pass increased cost directly to the warehouse/grocery...immediately.
5. Finally, that end of 2021 trucker strike in Colorado....that you never heard about on CNN or NPR...or read in NY Times/WaPo? You might want to go back and review ‘the win’.
We shouldn’t put it all on the truckers.
We should boycott new york in our own personal business.
I buy a lot online, but I try to never buy anything from a new york (or california) seller
Like any “system” that includes moving items through a process, if you remove just a few touch points it will screw up the time it takes to complete.
For example, if you remove a single cashier from the grocery store on the day before Thanksgiving...the lines will get a lot longer.
So, with ALL of the trucks going into NYC on any given day if just a small percent of them stop rolling...it will screw up the system dramatically.
Of course, the same action would clear up the highways around the city. THAT is what most people would see right away.
There wont be enough boycotting drivers to make a difference. Any load refused will be given to a foreigner or woke scab.
Something pointed out in the article....
If they can do this to a former President, they can do it to you too.
I might change to whom #2 is directed. IMHO, the naysyaers come in two categories:
1. The true Eeyores who think nothing works, there is no hope, we're all doomed, and all around masochists who I suspect aren't someone to depend on. For anything.
2. The operatives/Leftists, who try to discourage peoole from taking action. These are the true scumbags of humanity. Unlike the first category, they are the parasites who like a leech or mosquito, try to numb their prospective host to avoid getting swatted/squashed. Their biggest fear is that taking action COULD work.
Advice to should be to IGNORE the naysayers (because their intent is to hinder any effort) while following the second part of #2 of your post.
I think we can all pitch in by boycotting NYC in our own lives. Don’t travel there.
Go to any truckstop, right now, on any major interstate system in this country. Watch the truckers pile out of their trucks while they’re on the fuel pumps. 85% are for nationals, and most don’t even speak English. Truck drivers in this country are not on board with any conservative anti-immigrant movement. Half of all truck drivers do not even speak basic English. It’s much worse near major cities. When I get pushback on these points, it’s always from some farmer in Iowa who goes to a little truckstop off of a two-lane highway near his town we’re all his buddies still drive Smokey and the bandit no longer exists people.
Just sayin'.
An economic boycott can work, but people need to get together and make it work. Cities need food and other necessities. They can be influenced into better behavior, but people need to keep peaceful and lawful. They can’t make the trucker work. If enough refuse to deliver to NY, the price of things will go up by the rules of supply and demand. In an economy run by the free traders, transport workers, i.e., truckers, longshoreman and railroad workers can cripple the national economy. That an economic boycotts of foreign products can shut down the globalists peacefully without anyone getting locked up the the J6rs. Things won’t change by people doing nothing.
Now, let’s talk about how to make this work.
Target the deliveries of motor fuel until the gasoline supply runs dry. Force the elite New Yorkers to the streets or subways.
-PJ
I ain’t reading all that..
But congratulations!
Or condolences
Or whatever