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‘Our Goal Is to Shut Down the Country Until They Dissolve Parliament’: Thousands of Canadian Truckers to Strike Over Vaccine Mandates -- US truckers are organizing in parallel
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| 19 January A.D. 2022
| Enrico Trigoso
Posted on 01/19/2022 4:00:56 PM PST by lightman
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To: lightman
American Truckers, BOYCOTT BLUE STATES AN D.C. until in HURTS!
To: Tommy Revolts
As someone who deals in cross-border truck traffic, I will most likely experience some financial loss in a Canada-US trucker job action.
I WILL GLADLY TAKE THAT LOSS!
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posted on
01/19/2022 4:45:18 PM PST
by
Walrus
(I do not consent)
To: cockroach_magoo
WTF kind of exposure could a long-haul trucker get to covid in the cab of his rig, anyway?
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posted on
01/19/2022 4:46:25 PM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(Buck Foe Jiden!)
To: lightman
In your dreams. Never seen a real trucker strike in my whole life and I’ve been in bulk transport for over 45 years.
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posted on
01/19/2022 4:47:30 PM PST
by
griswold3
(When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
To: lightman
Perhaps the mainstream media is starting to wake up. NBC is now reporting that cross-border auto parts and food shipments may start being disrupted as the trucker vaccine mandate begins. Approximately 60 to 75% of all U.S. truckers are not vaccinated. The cross-border vaccine mandate for American truckers begins January 22nd as part of the Dept of Homeland Security protocol.
In October DHS announced:
…”beginning in early January 2022, DHS will require that all inbound foreign national travelers crossing U.S. land or ferry POEs – whether for essential or non-essential reasons – be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and provide related proof of vaccination. This approach will provide ample time for essential travelers such as truckers, students, and healthcare workers to get vaccinated.” (link)
The Canadian trucker vaccine mandate began January 15th, the U.S. mandate begins this weekend, January 22nd. Given the scale of out of season fresh fruit and vegetable shipments from South and Central America, as well as Mexico, we can anticipate serious issues in the food supply chain. The NBC article highlights trade with Canada, but that’s miniscule when compared to the trade we get from Mexico.
(Via NBC) – […] The U.S. mandate, announced in October, requires all essential foreign travelers, including truck drivers, who cross U.S. land borders to be fully vaccinated. Essential nonresident travelers had been able to enter the U.S. during the pandemic regardless of their vaccination status, in part so as not to disrupt trade and to give them more time to get vaccinated.
The forthcoming mandate follows one that went into effect in Canada last week that prohibits unvaccinated truckers from crossing into Canada from the U.S.
[…] The border restriction will make the automotive supply chain issue worse, said Doug Betts, president of the global automotive division at J.D. Power, a data and analytics company focused on the auto industry. He noted that auto parts come from all over the world and one obstruction in the chain can significantly slow or stop production.
“By the time you map out the supply chain, it’s just a spider web going everywhere,” he said.
“I would be surprised if there are any (U.S.) cars that don’t have at least one Canadian-based part. Canada is a pretty important part of auto manufacturing,” Betts said. “Any part that doesn’t arrive or if there’s something wrong with it, you can’t build it. There’s more points of failure.”
[…] In Michigan, Brian Hitchcock, owner of MBH Trucking LLC, said he expects his freight transportation company to lose 40 percent in revenue because only five of his 30 drivers are vaccinated, leaving the others ineligible to haul diesel exhaust fuel back and forth from Ontario, Canada, to Michigan.
“And it’s all because we can’t cross the border,” he said. “It’s affecting every sector of what we use in this country.”
Hitchcock, also the interim executive director of the Michigan Trucking Association, said he’s spoken with 15 other trucking companies who have about 400 drivers, 75 percent of whom are unvaccinated. (read more)
One example below.
Current Canadian potatoes in deep chill storage.
[SOURCE – United Potato Canada]
80 million hundred weight (CWT) is essentially 8 million tons. Article on excess potatoes without shipment HERE.
Good luck moving 8 million tons of potatoes without truck drivers.
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posted on
01/19/2022 4:48:44 PM PST
by
Bratch
To: Bratch
Moving 8 million tons would take about 364,000 trucks, loaded to approximately the legal weight limit of about 44,000 pounds of cargo in the trailer.
That’s a lot of spuds.
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posted on
01/19/2022 5:13:41 PM PST
by
NorthWoody
(Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
To: lightman
good. roll on boys (and gals).
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posted on
01/19/2022 5:15:32 PM PST
by
dadfly
To: fella
Is this breaking news? As of yesterday unvaxed foreigners couldn’t enter the UK. I just read an article this morning that unless the Brits make an exemption Novak cannot play at Wimbledon.
To: lightman; Tilted Irish Kilt
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posted on
01/19/2022 5:23:39 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
To: Aussiebabe
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posted on
01/19/2022 5:33:13 PM PST
by
Qiviut
(🍊 #standup "Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
To: lightman
Canada on strike?
I think south Park did an episode on that...
Did not turn out well for the Canadians
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posted on
01/19/2022 5:34:35 PM PST
by
joe fonebone
(bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
To: lightman
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posted on
01/19/2022 5:42:54 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Ashli Babbitt was murdered)
To: Eleutheria5
Time to roll. The days of C.W. Mc Call/Convoy like cohesiveness in the trucking industry is probably over. Now it seems like a lot of third world types behind the wheel, and judging by the way they drive, they are out for themselves.
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posted on
01/19/2022 5:45:10 PM PST
by
dznutz
To: lightman
With you truckers! I have the utmost respect for all of you.
“Cause we got a little convoy
Rockin’ through the night.
Yeah, we got a little convoy
Ain’t she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain’t nothin’ gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin’ convoy
‘Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!”
To: lightman
How do we send financial support to these guys?
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posted on
01/19/2022 5:49:41 PM PST
by
Obadiah
(Fauci is the golden calf of science.)
To: Tommy Revolts
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posted on
01/19/2022 6:00:02 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: nascarnation
Less than 2% of truck drivers are unionized these days. The old Teamsters domination of the trade was shut down by de-regulation of the 80s. The recently ended Federal oversight of the Teamsters because of mob influence didn’t help either.
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posted on
01/19/2022 6:05:29 PM PST
by
dznutz
To: lightman
Good.
Thank God.
I will pray very hard for their efforts.
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posted on
01/19/2022 6:26:23 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: NorthWoody
The knowledge on this board never ceases to amaze.
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posted on
01/19/2022 6:29:41 PM PST
by
Bratch
To: lightman
Good. Hold the line, boys. I can do without a lot of comfort items for months to years if need be.
This fight is more important that convenience and comfort.
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posted on
01/19/2022 6:31:41 PM PST
by
Nathan _in_Arkansas
(Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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