Owner-Operators better WAKE UP!

Point is if they find a cell phone period on your person or in truck they can research that #. They been able to track your fuel purchases anyway weather you pay cash or not. So there are two ways. Shame I agree but we need to learn how to play the game to our advantages while same time trying to fight for our rights. Just complaining doesn't solve a thing and just a waste of time. IMO when EOB are mandated loads will slow down and take longer to get there. There's already a shortage of drivers and loads sitting on docks to be delivered. Tho not adjusted as it should have in past I believe the rates will have no choice but to go up and beg for us to haul their freight. Now most of know it all truckers on here brag how they average 2.50 PM on all hub miles. So I believe the freight rates are already there and we just have to find it. If I'm wrong woopie do I fail and start again another way. This all just MYO. Hope all is safe out there.

 

One of the things I think folks do not know is there congressman is accessible. I was in DC in 2012 and happened to be on the hill. I found my congressman's office and walked right in there. I talked with him directly and his staff.

Your senator may be a little bit harder to pin down, but regardless, you can speak directly with your elected officials face to face, by email, over the phone, and through their websites. It isn't hard my friends.

 

Here is a good place to start: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

 

yep. your cell phone. voluntary or personal.

 

There won't be a so called driver shortage once Amnesty is passed. There will be plenty of low wage drivers for the megas to choose from.

 

My senators and congressman send me e mails of when and where they will have town hall meetings in the local area and i make it a point to go to them and voice my concerns

 

LOL Right.....I am not MANDATED to have this. My point is this: EVERYTHING now is just forced on us with no recourse. It's time to raise hell over this......there are hundreds of small, safe carriers who do just fine with paper logs.

The megas that are using elogs now are not safer because of it; they may possibly have fewer form and manner violations because of it.....that's all.

 

yeah right go look at hrs of service basic on these so called mega fleets. Look at cr england for example they are all ate up. Even the substance abuse basic is sky high. Open containers etc in a commercial vehicle. Granted they are a training company but still. Safer?. I think not. But you are right eld's do not make a company safer at all.

 

The snowball has been rolling down the hill since 1990, its target being o/os as well as drivers. Why do you think there is so many people from other industries coming into trucking? Its all a big plan by the govt, the ATA, the oil companies, the insurance companies and the trucking companies themselves to take over the industry and to crush the possibility of a working union in this country, thus further forcing down wages for all Americans, including the very ones they are using to accomplish their missions. To get the ball rolling, they used NAFTA. I posted a news article in 1991, right after George Bush proposed NAFTA stating that if it passed, in 20 years the people in this country would be working for nothing. If you look around you and take all things into consideration I believe youll find that warning to be pretty well on the mark.

Daily, they are pushing veteran truck drivers out of the trucking industry and replacing them with people who they can pay less wages because of their training, who probably came from industries that paid much more than trucking will ever offer them, because their particular industry was a victim of NAFTA. Its not very hard to see this if you open your eyes and I don't blame the people coming into the industry one bit because you have to do what you have to do to survive. I blame the forces that have instigated this devious plan against ALL Americans in this country.

And youre right, Apathy will kill this country dead but so will violence. John F Kennedy was right on his mark with his speech, just days before he died, about an inner force plotting to Destroy this country.

 

So.....now what? Getting the majority of truck drivers to come together for a cause is like herding cats.

Schneider used to have a union - Schneider Transport - but I guess ol' Donny got his way and eliminated them. OOIDA is one way, but not everyone will fork over the measly few bucks for a membership. OOIDA to me is like the NRA in type. I think the NRA has more pull though in there piece of the pie than OOIDA has in theirs.

What is to be done? Sort of like the GnR song Sweet Child O mine - Where do we go now?