Need to get the 2 Million Bikers involved as well.
I mentioned this to a friend the other day who is involved in trucking. He looked at me as though I was nuts. What Strike?
I’m wagering this will draw as many as the Million Muslim March. (IOW a couple hundred).
You might get a few owner operators with excess money but the vast majority of truckers are driving someone else’s truck and don’t see prison as a viable plan.
Truckers don’t usually have the luxury of taking part in strikes. Doesn’t feed the family very well. Especially when you don’t OWN the truck. I have a friend who drove and loved it but didn’t make a whole lot.
We have a road trip planned for that weekend. This should be interesting.
How ‘bout “we don’t roll at all until the Keystone Pipeline is approved”?
Well I hope they get their message across loud and clear.
It does bring to mind a night at a Holiday Inn in Dubuque IA where I was having a good friendly debate with a liberal.
Sitting next to us were a group of union truckers using the “F” word at least once per sentence and raging on GWB because all he cared about was oil.
I did not even have to say a thing to my liberal friend as he just shook his head and said, these guys make it hard to argue my side.
I said, it sure makes me wonder what all their trucks run on if they hate oil so much.
looks like bs
corporate trucker friends of mine have heard nothing about this. besides, the schedules they are on would not allow them to get out of the process, especially since they’re driving company trucks
I’ll take a trucker over a congress critter any day.
The trucker does real work...and provides real value.
I’ll take a trucker over a congress critter any day.
The trucker does real work...and provides real value.
This is great. I’m going to Richmond that weekend for a politically incorrect pipe show by the Conclave of Richmond Pipe Smokers (CORPS). I won’t have to be dodging trucks on the way there and back.
As an owner operator, there is no way I am going to sacrifice any profits in a symbolic and meaningless “strike”.
“Corruption” is too wide a target. Without a more specific target, a trucker strike will just hurt America without accomplishing anything.
“Corruption” is too wide a target. Without a more specific target, a trucker strike will just hurt America without accomplishing anything.
I have a dear friend who is a trucker, and while he is 100% with us in viewpoints, I sure doubt he can take the inevitable firing that would occur if he disobeyed his company’s dictates and went to participate in this.
I support them 100%!
Indies with the will and wherewithal could make an impressive parade (or convoy if you wish to call it that). Not corporate truckers. I’d say why not cover their trailers with signs. A semi is a traveling billboard like nothing else, and yet most of them just have mundane logos on them.
If this is real, it in fact would be a “not one damn dime day” that would work!
I’ll stock up in the hopes this works out!
While I support this 100% it really isn’t feasible. Owner operators are usually leased to a larger company. Even though many don’t have forced dispatch it is not to your advantage to turn down aload, both financially and your standing within the company. Very very few, if any, OO’s gypsy every load anymore. Small companies with 50 trucks usually have contracts to get commodity X from point A to point B on a regular scheduled basis. If company A doesn’t do it they are in breach of contract and there is Company B C D and E ready to step in and do it. This is no way the major companies, Swift, J. B Hunt, Schnieder, to name of few are going to go along with it
Trucking is regulated by agencies that don’t have a clue about what the industry is all about. Hours of service regulations that don’t make sense is just one example. Safety ratings, licenses, permits, on road inspections, idling regulations and on and on. Now there is pending regulation about GPS and on board electronic logging. Trucking has a legitimate b*tch with government regs but it is such a cut throat business no one stands together.
That fact is that if 20,000 trucks strike there are 40,000 waiting to take those loads.
Big difference between the bikers and the truckers.