Posted on 09/19/2013 12:35:37 PM PDT by maddog55
The American people are sick and tired of the corruption that is destroying America! We therefore declare a GENERAL STRIKE on the weekend of October 11-13, 2013! Truck drivers will not haul freight! Americans can strike in solidarity with truck drivers!
We won't be rolling 11-13!!! (55k+ likes!!
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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 hired a truck that was loaded this morning in Baltimore and ready to roll at 0930 and heading to Pine Bluff, AR.
The Maryland permit was requested yesterday at 14’-7” tall. When the truck was loaded it measured 14’-4” so the permit request was ammended for that and issued with a requirement that it be physically measured by an MD State patrolman before leaving the load point.
Only took him three hours to get there and finally rolling at 2:00 but only went 19 miles all day and had to stop for DC rush hour curfew and can’t travel move again 9:00 in the morning because of more DC curfew.
Got to be hard for a truck driver to make a buck sitting still and I need my shit in Arkansas two days ago.
I support them 100%!
That would be about 200,000 semis. 10% of that would be 20,000 trucks.
That could slow down DC a little.
Whattaya say we support whoever is willing to make this great sacrifice?
I’m sorry but nothing I read said they are headed to D.C.
As a trucker I would support them but the bottom line is it isn’t up to them, it’s up to us all
Strike in place.
Why route through DC?
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.
I got questioned by a DC cop after having medical radiation treatment. I made his radiation meter go off.
watcha gonna use for gas?
For one weekend?
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.
There’s a reason the picture is a cartoon: Because this idea is a dream.
Wasn’t the AAM Tractorcade 79 a push to use ethanol in fuel?
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