Posted on 06/14/2020 11:57:39 AM PDT by Morgana
A majority of truckers are vowing to halt deliveries to cities that defund or disband their police departments, according to a recent poll.
Seventy-nine percent of truck drivers said they felt their safety would be at risk if they had to deliver to a city with a disbanded police department, according to CDL News, a website for the commercial trucking industry.
Long-haul truck drivers have been on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic for the past year due to stay-at-home orders requiring most Americans to buy their goods online, and have had to deal with protests.
Now many truckers are worried about going to places such as Minneapolis, Minnesota, where their city council president reportedly planned to dismantle their police department following the death of George Floyd.
CDL News asked drivers on its app to explain their reasoning for not delivering to these cities.
“I will not deliver to an area with a disbanded police department. My life matter and I do this for my family. We are already at the mercy of these towns and cities with laws and hate against us for parking, getting a meal or even using a restroom,” one driver responded.
“Simple. We may not like it all the time, but laws and order is necessary,” another driver said.
Truck driving has historically been ranked as one of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S.
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The truckers are now going to be a target for sabotage and sniping shooters, as police.
Now the truckers’ BLM enemies are the ones “taking little white pills” and their “eyes are open wide.”
Watch your mirrors, guys and gals.
Go for it, Truckers...Just be careful....
Ha! Drop it on the outskirts and let the city dwellers come and pick it up.
How much money has the Teamster’s Union paid to BLM and ANTIFA?
Well, that will certainly decrease the crazy-dense impossible traffic snarls in Manhattan often caused by double parking trucks.
The police unions and the Teamsters Union should team up and work together on this.
Most of the OTR truckers are non-union.
It won't take too many encounters to stop this particular form of BS.
The first step should be STOPPING ALL Interstate Deliveries to States like California where the Driver can not Carry his or her Weapon for Self Defense,
Gives you a somewhat accurate picture of how truckers are gonna vote this year, at least on this issue...
They will, if they see this mess as something caused by the democrats.
i dont see republicans demanding police be defunded.
dems own this idiocy.
Truck drivers are not stupid, and although many of them pack, why take a chance on being hijacked, esp if you are hauling food or other goods desired by Antifa criminals. You sure can’t depend on cops in leftist controlled cities.
Need to bump it up to 100%
The dems should own everything that happens in the cities they run, but they’ve managed to blame white Republican “racism” for most of it. We have until November to wake everyone up.
A united Truckers could shut the country down. I would like to see the left and Teamsters try to play hardball.
No truck deliveries for two weeks and America starves.
Then there will be people who blame the higher prices on greedy shopkeeper, so they will burn the stores down.
"When an oil well owned by an American company catches fire, the company hires four European men, down on their luck, to drive two trucks over mountain dirt roads, loaded with nitroglycerine needed to extinguish the flames."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Fear
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