Could a strike be looming

Discussion in 'Truckers Strike Forum' started by TheRoadWarrior, Mar 5, 2013.

  1. 379exhd

    379exhd Road Train Member

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    START SAVING UP FOR MY BAIL FUND!!!:biggrin_255:
     
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  3. Giggles the Original

    Giggles the Original Road Train Member

    RW...you are in BIG TROUBLE MISTER.....you come in here creating this thread...and dont let any of us (crustys) know you are ok...we have been worried.....oh yeah BIG TROUBLE.......
     
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  4. zentrucking

    zentrucking Road Train Member

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    Don't really need 100%, don't need 50% to strike, 10 or 15% would do depending on the time of the year.

    And this "strike" wouldn't need aggressive traffic blocking necessarily, just enough drivers parking it, legally or at home in protest.

    Maybe fits and starts at first, but if even Walmart workers can show some solidarity, as they did over Xmas - drivers can too.
     
  5. VIAJERO1A

    VIAJERO1A Light Load Member

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    Guys do you wan a very quick response from the media and with a very few trucks? LET'S BLOCK THE EXITS TO THE UNIONS TRUCKS DOING THE DISTRIBUTION AT SOME KEY NEWSPAPERS I.E. LA TIMES, NYTIMES, BOSTON GLOBE, WASHINGTON POST, etc. BUT....LET'S WAIT TILL THE PAPERS ARE PRINTED AND LEAVING !!! YOU WILL SEE PANIC ! The drivers are UNION so chances are they won't cross the line !!
    Want more? how about parking in front of supermarkets distribution center !!
     
  6. KANSAS TRANSIT

    KANSAS TRANSIT Road Train Member

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    Ok, I'll throw my two cents in for what it's worth, I, like many of you have heard about nationwide strikes as long as I have been around, it has never happened, but it has lead me to think about what it would take to change the "culture" that exists in trucking today.

    Even with all of the social media available today, I just never really see a nationwide strike, just too many people/companies involved. I would rather think that a "state wide" strike would be much easier to pull off and could produce the same results.

    IOW, pick a state, preferably a state that's coastal state that can be isolated, for two reasons, for one, states like Cali, Fla, Oregon, Wash, even NJ, could be easily avoided,( you DON'T HAVE to run thru them, you could route around) two, and this is the BIGGER reason, all of the aforementioned states have large ports.

    It would not take long at all for those ports to get backed up to the breaking point, you would not just have pressure from the trucking industry but also now from the international community, it would not take long. Once you shut down ONE state, just the fear generated by the press would swept the other states into line, then it would fall to the FEDS to make the changes needed to appease the industry.

    Cali, has already shot themselves in the foot with their own CARB board and the fazing out of older trucks, a lot of people have already stopped going there. Half of my business is to Cali, and back, but I could easily keep ALL of my trucks out of Cali. for a couple of weeks without killing my bottom line.

    Meanwhile, ALL of the other truckers in the country can continue to feed their families, pay their bills etc, hell even all of the Cali. based trucks could run "somewhere else" for a week.

    Just something to consider.

    Stan
     
  7. skibum_63

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    Hos- this has become the Trucking Joke of the Industry. No one in Washington can come up with a True Honest Fix to this so called Problem that was never a problem to begin with.

    So are you going to hold a press conference and publicly call for a strike?
    If not why?

    There won't be no strike. This isn't the 70s where truckers got away with it. You got to many o/o's on the verge of losing everything under the sun, and all these company drivers, to scared to fart in their trucks out of fear they will get fired for stinking the cab up.
    I agree something has to be done, and I do my part by emailing the hell out of my state's Congressmen and Senators. Eventually they will get tired of me, and join the few truck friendly people in Washington, and push for more fairness for truckers.
     
  8. scarface2200

    scarface2200 Light Load Member

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    I. All for a Strike I havent been around long but I see the problems and its the gov not the drivers

    The new hos are going to hurt me bad as im a night driver only its going to cost me a days pay and maybe even anther day depending on my hrs since restarts can only be taken once a wk and ill be stuck in truck stops away from my family during the redtarts its bs

    Gov need to #### its none of there bussiness they cant do nothing right just look wt all the scandles over the last yr and they cant even balance a budget like its that hard we have no choice but those fools cant do it and dob t even try to

    Strike Strike Strike

    Im only on my 2nd yr making decent money now it looks like my pay will be cut down to my 1st yr which was ok but im where I need to be now and happy with it ive worked hard and ran hard 19months to get where im at now I never cheated my logs and sacerficed my time without my wife n kids to be where me and my family are.comfrontable and now more forced regulation thats not needed
     
  9. RickG

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    Every one of those newspapers have online editions . We really need to give the media more of a negative attitude toward truckers , don't we ?
     
  10. wndrwtr

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    If you wish to bring this to the attention of all...just remember.."when the fuel stops flowing from the pumps, the world will pay attention."
     
  11. speedracer 1963

    speedracer 1963 Medium Load Member

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    why not ? reagan got rid of the air traffic controllers who went on strike ( even though they signed a contract saying they wont strike ) and the ship yard workers ( oakland california ) almost got the same fate a few years back. Talking about a strike is like saying anyone can occupy the whitehouse.
     
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