Biden Plays Chicken With Semitruck Drivers

The Epoch Times ^ | 10-24-21 | Jackson Elliott, and others

[MNJohnnie]

Truck driving is not a no skill position.

To be good at it requires a very specific skill set. We all ready see the amount of bad truck drivers on the roads due to being 80,000 truck drivers short. Handing out more CDLs with reduced requirements is simply going to massively increase the number of truck related accidents.

We don’t just need drivers, we need good drivers.

[yldstrk]

I am not going to lie with a fake vaccine card. I am not getting a vaccine and I won’t lie that I had one.

[GOPJ]

Do the DC protest a few weeks before Thanksgiving - - before congress leaves for one of their many vacations.

But we need to name the protest before white liberal ‘elites’ tag it an insurrection and an attack of the power of white liberal ‘elites’...(what they call an ‘attack on democracy’) - as if an attack on their royal pompous asses was the same as ‘democracy’....

[dynachrome]

It was sarcasm. I do wonder if the companies have loosened requirements at all.

[CottonBall]

“Today, 79 percent of Americans over 18 are vaccinated, according to the CDC”

That leaves a control group of 21%. The fascists can’t allow that.

[usconservative]

Just wait until all the UPS and FedEx drivers start quitting. My youngest son works for FedEx. He says the overwhelming number of the dock workers aren't vaccinated and FedEx knows they'll lose more than half of them if they try forcing a vaccine mandate. The truck drivers are probably about the same.

All this mandate is going to accomplish is shutting down commerce across the country and drive us faster to Bidenzuela. That's by design. These aren't stupid choices Biden's handlers are making, they're doing this deliberately to break our system and take it over.

Once people accept that fact, the rest is easy to see what they're doing.

[beancounter13]

Totally agree with you.

I am also pointing out that CWII will not be North v. South, or East v. West. It will be Rural v. Urban. Trains will be the primary method the Urbanites will move goods between Urban centers while planes will continue to be used for moving people across ‘fly-over country’.

We need to plan accordingly.

[deport]

That’s the upright position to take. But there are many that
would take the fake route where or when they could.

[UnwashedPeasant]

It is the carrot and stick: Force people to quit, then pay them not to work.

[Alberta's Child]

I deal with many different players in supply chains as part of my work.

When the subject of drivers having no access to bathrooms at customer locations comes up in a conversation I always give the same answer:

“I know quite a few shippers who used to let drivers use their bathrooms. They stopped allowing it when they got tired of cleaning up after a lot of strangers who have the personal hygiene habits of illegal Mexican immigrants sleeping under an overpass in Southern California.”

[datura]

I am an independent owner operator who is leased on to a small family owned company. We have 6 transports for propane, and the other 5 are company drivers.

The owner of the company and I are the only non vaccinated ones in the company, and I told management that I refuse the vax.

Of all the drivers I know, 60%are not vaccinated and will refuse the jab no matter what. I’ll park my equipment first.

Yeah, this is my hill to die on.

I WILL NOT COMPLY!!!!!

And the rest of us need to stop following mandates - follow LAWS ONLY!

[sausageseller]

There have been many bathrooms at shipper - production facilities I would never use. If I would have taken pictures, I could post 1 day for years.
The northern unionized assembly and parts plants were the worst.
3rd world crap , urine, full of puke, hocks and nose blow out bathrooms !

[MNJohnnie]

My brother, a long haul truck driver, agrees

In his words “Drivers are their own worst enemies”

[Daffynition]

He better keep an eye on his rear view mirror.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Ward added that drivers who quit can’t easily be replaced. They require training.

One would think. But if the idiots running "our" government decide to import drivers. the "training" they will "require" will be comparable to the "veting" that illegal immigrants undergo. Psaki would deliver statements with a heavy use of the word "should" or just lie as usual.

[Dr. Franklin]

There are too many in our society that want to do it.
Not enough understand the above comment.

Americans like to think that they are "free". The reality is that most are not. Expanded economic choice replaced individual liberty at least 20 years ago. The reality is that we are ruled by an arrogant group of elites that when pressed, rig our elections and call peaceful protesters insurrectionists. I am surprised that there has been no general economic boycott to protest the rigged 2020 elections. The "vaccine" mandates result from that. The truckers could make a political statement with a general strike. Let's see if the idiots running the country want to push it that far.

[Chode]

100%

[joshua c]

my bet is intentional but we are screwed either way

[PeterPrinciple]

Let’s see if the idiots running the country want to push it that far.

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[shotgun]

My wife works for JR Simplot grower solutions selling and distributing fertilizer.

Everything you said is correct. The lack of fertilizer or other soil amendments, both organic and non-organic, will definitely affect crop yields.