What to do if there is a Nationwide Strike. Dec 22, 2014

Some are yes. But there are some that use the UAW to their advantage. Their pensions are better than those of government. They are not forces to work ot like my family was. I have a friend works for ford. Asked him with help for my drivers side window. Needed to replace the knob and crank and put window on track. I keep all my tools on the truck so when I went home and bumped into him asked him to help me fix it. He said he knows nothing about the windows in a ford ranger. Except his job is to install windows on ford rangers. He only has to tighten the screws. Not saying all are lazy but in my grandads day they did everything and he worked gm. Could build a car in his sleep and had he not died before I was born I woulda learned from him.

 

I stand with you on this wooly. I think we could bring about change. What about diesel prices for o/os

 

Here is something else I thought of. Why don't we push to get the job changed to a skilled trade with proper training. I grew up in Germany and you could actually do a three year apprentice ship. The first year was mechanic school, second and third year you got trained on the trucking business and driving. You would learn all aspects of trucking rules, laws, regulations and so on. After you finished up your training you would be tested and upon passing the industry standard tests you were a skilled journeyman/woman.

When I drove in Germany drivers were paid hourly or salary. Most of us would not care for a lot of the regulations they force on us if we would get properly compensated for the work we do. Nobody would care to much about traffic congestion, construction or other slow downs. The ELD shows the truck driving and you get paid x-amount of Dollars for operating the truck. When you sit at the shipper for ten hours you get paid your salary or hourly wage and the list goes on.

I think that change would probably be the biggest benefit for most drivers. Right now they have us all chasing the miles and we all end up doing stuff we should not to too get as many as possible. I believe fuel prices and rates should not be regulated and the market will always take care of those. If not we have to go back and issue licenses for trucking and limit the amount of trucks.

 

I'm assuming your A COMPANY DRIVER RIGHT?,,,,Hmmmm.. I figured that ...do you not see how they use fear to manipulate the market...U DONT NEED A REASSURANCE YOU WILL HAVE YOUR JOB....FOR WHAT ....U HAVE ASSURANCE ITS CALLED A ( CDL-COMMERCIAL DRIVERS LICENSE) U ARE FREE BY LAW TO MOVE AND GO WORK FOR ANY COMPANY YOU WANT TO...NO EXCUSES...U DONT HAVE TO WORRY OR EXPLAIN THAT TO " NO ONE" ITS YOURS...I STRONGLY URGE DRIVERS TO BREAK THEY SELF OUT OF DIS SCARY #### MENTALITY THAT OH NO IF I PROTEST OR BOYCOTT THEYLL HAVE MY HEAD ON A PLATTER...SCREW THAT GROW SUM BALLS....WE CAN ALL GO ON STRIKE IF U GET FIRED SO WHAT ...GO TO ANOTHER COMPANY ...THERE ALL DA SAME N E WAYS....#WAKEUPDRIVERS... AMERICA,CONGRESS, AND THESE TRUCKING COMPANYS NEED US "MORE THAN WE NEED THEM" BELIEVE IT OR NOT....SEE THATS THE PROBLEM WITH TODAYS DRIVERS THEY WORRY TO MUCH ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN....I REMEMBER BACM IN THE 60s-80s ERA OF TRUCKING When my Pops and Grandpas were driving they DIDNT GIVE A RATS ### ABOUT A COMPANY REPERCUSSION ..BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY HAD THE POWER....NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN TODAYS DRIVERS ARE TO WHIMPERY....I ENCOURAGE ALL NEW DRIVERS TO (STRONGLY DO SOME RESEARCH ON THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY) why be comfortable and accept sitting at a shipper all day long for .29 CPM -put it like this ..DA NEXT TIME U NEED TO GET HOME FOR A DAUGHTERS,or SONS BIRTHDAY PARTY OR SCHOOL GRADUATION,OR MISS YOUR PARENTS DOCTOR APPOINTMENT AND THEY BECOME GRAVELY ILL...N U R STUCK AT A DAM TRUCK STOP FOR A 34 HOUR RESTART AND COULD OF WENT HOME BUT YOUR COMPANY AND FM DECIDES THEY DLNT GIVE A RATS #### ABOUT U N WHAT U HAVE TO GET HOME. TAKE CARE OF.....THEN...THEN...THENNN......YOULL SEE WHAT I MEAN,,,LETS SEE IF YOU TRULY CARE ABOUT A "COMPANYS", FEELING THEN....AND DONT GIV ME DAT CRAP ABOUT OH I HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP W MY FM AND ALL DAT BULL ...I BEEN DRIVING WELL OVER 10+years and EVERYDRIVER HAS BEEN THRU IT AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER UNLESS U STARTED OFF W A L/P OR WITH YOUR OWN AUTHORITY ...OR BY SOME MIRACLE OF GOD ....JUST MAYHE ...JUST MAYBE ..U ARE ONE OF THE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN WHO HAPPEND TO HAVE LUCKED UP N GOT 1 OUT OF A MILLION FM WHO CARE...

 

It doesn't take a full 100% of drivers to AFFECT THE INDUSTRY ...SEE PEOPLE NEED TO CHAnGE THE WAY THEY THINK..IF A DC OR WAREHOUSE IS USED TO GETTING 100% OF THEIR FREIGHT EVERY WEEK ...NUMBERS NEVER LIE...EVEN IF HALF OR LETS SAY 50% OF TRUCKERS ..IT DONT MATTER IF THEY ARE L/P O-O OR REGULAR DRIVERS....IF THEY START GETTING LESSER THAN 50% OF THEIR FREIGHT WE ALLREADY WON.... THINK PEOPLE..THINK ITS NOT ILLEGAL YET...BUT THERE WORKING ON IT....@wakupDrivers...do your research

 

BRAVO! BRAVO! GOt DANM IT BROTHER I COULDNT VE SAID IT ANY BETTER MYSELF......EXACTLY EXACTLY THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT....IM BEHIND U 100% LET THEM KNOW IM ALSO BEHIND IT PROUDLY BROTHER ...PROUDLY ALL WE NEED TO DO IS SEND A STRONG...STRONG ....STRONG MESSAGE to CONGRESS.....

..THAT A STRIKE IS IMMENENT!....CONGRESS ONLY UNDERSTAND AND LISTENS OR TRY N CHAnGE SOMETHING WHEN ITS TOO LATE...OR WHEN DA WOUND IS BLEEDING SO BADLY NOTHING THEY CAN DO TO STOP IT...WE NEED TO ORGANIZE AND SEND THIS MESSAGE NOW.....WITH TODAYS TECHNOLOGY I DONT SEE WHY IT WONT WORK..

Lets set up some pages StRICTLY DEDICATED FOR THIS PURPOSE ONLY..Talk to the ShIPPERS,THE BROKERS...TELL THEM STRAIGHT UP...the FREIGHT IT WILL NOT BE MOVED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.THEY CAN GIVE IT TO THE BOTTOM FEEDERS WITH THE RAGILY TRUCKS IF THEY WANT TO BUT WHEN THAT TRUCK BREAKS DOWN ON SIDE DA ROAD AND THEY CANT GET IT TO CUSTOMER ON TIME...THEYLL GLADLY PAY MONEY TO OPS THEY KNOW CAN GET IT THERE RIGHT AND ON TIME......ATA,OOIDA IM SURE THEY ALL MONITOR THE ACTIVITY ON HERE N OTHER SITES ..lET THEM KNOW WE MEAN BUSINESS....

...WE HAVE FACEBOOK,TWITTER,INSTAGRAM,THE INTERNET,AND ITS ALL ((FREE)) YES U HEARD ME ((FREE)) THESE ARE VALUABLE,VALUABLE TOOLS AT OUR DISPOSAL ITS BEEN USED IN EVERY OTHER BUSINESS PRACTICE TO GET A POINT ACROSS WHETHER IT B DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY..

..WE HAVE THE RESOURCES AND TOOLS TO GET THIS STRIKE DONE GENTLEMAN " BELIEVE IT"
IF A TRUCK DRIVER REALLY KNEW HOW LITTLE HE/She WAS MAKING OFF THAT LOAD...IF A TRUCK DRIVER REALLY KNEW HOW MUCH THE COMPANY WAS MAKING DOLLAR PER MILE OF THEM...THEY WOULD FIND ANOTHER PROFESSION QUICKLY...ONLY ONES TO STAY N DA INDUSTRY AFTER THEY RAN DA NUMBERS ..WOULD BE THE INCREDIBLY DUMB OR INCREDIBLY STUPID AFTER THEY FIGURED THIS OUT...BUT GUESS WHAT THEY NEVER WILL...I strongly URGE ANY "REGULAR" TRUCK DRIVER TO CONTACT THEY FM IN THE MORNING AND ASK THEM WHAT THIS LOAD PAYS your HAULING AND LETS SEE WHAT WHAT ANSWER YOU GET..??..OH YOUR RIGHT IT DOESENT MATTER .

AS LONG AS THEY KEEP FEEDING U THAT .GOOD OLD .29 CPM THEY COULD CARE LESS....U KNO TO SUM PEOPLE THATS GOOD MONEY?? YEAH RIGHT....POINT IS IF YOU KNEW YOU WAS WORTH $10 A MILE...WOULD YOU STILL WORK FOR A COMPANY PAYING YOU .29 CPM.

..BUT SADLY SOME DRIVERS DONT KNOW..AND SOME FRANKLY DONT CARE....LETS DO A STRIKE --SCREW DA NAYSAYERS ....LETS GET ORGANIZED.. IMMEDIATELY...DEC 22 ISNT THAT FAR AWAY..EITHER START SAVING UP NOW N PUT SUM MONEY AWAY FOR THIS...

If u cant afford to sTRIKE fOR 3 DAYS And iF u r HURTING FOR MONEY THAT BAD YOUR OBVIOUSLY IN THE WRONG INDUSTRY..

..LETS SEND A CLEAR AND STRONG MESSAGE ..when customers start going to the store to shop for PRODUCE and can't buy a gallon of milk...BECAUSE THAT REEFER WITH 45 PALLETS IS SITTING ON SIDE DA ROAD OR STILL SITTING N DA WAREHouse BECAUSE NO OP WILL COVER IT ..

.LETS SEE The FARMERS GRIPE N COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW MUCH INVENTORY THEY HAVE TO throW AWAY OR HAVE SITTING N WAREHOUSES GOING BAD BECAUSE IT CANT GET SHIPPED...when that newborn don't have SIMILAC TO DRINK OR new clothes to put on .

when that Farmer can't get that load of SUGARCANE SHIPPED out...or they Can't get that BEEF/CATTLE OR FLATBED LOAD OF HAY TO FEED THEY LIVESTOCK BET SUM HEADS START TURNING THEN..

..OR WHEN THAT SAME soccer mom GO TO FILL UP TO GO TO WORK n drop the kids off at school... BUT CANT BECAUSE THERES A LONG FROM HER HOUSE TO BUM ### EGYPT BECAUSE THAT TANKER DIDNT COME FILL up them tanks with gas...or DAT CONSTRUCTION COMPANY CANT WORK N HAVE TO SEND DA CREW HOME BECAUSE THERES NO HIGH SULPHUR DEIESEL TO RUN THAT EXCAVATOR OR BOB CAT...

.U SEE HOW MANY WORKERS WILL B PISSED ...watch DA DOW JONES,RED CHIP AND BLUE CHIP STOCK MARKET BE AFFECTED...WATCH HOW STOCKS PLUMMET..WATCH HOW FAST CEOS AND PRESIDENTS OF MAJOR FIRMS START GETTING PHONE CALLS DEMANDING THERE MONEY BACK and Resignations IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE THERE NOT MAKING MONEY?????? N there IRA OR RETIREMENT FUND IS TAKING A HIT BECAUSE PRODUCT IS NOT BEING MOVED ....????? O THATS RIGHT WE DONT KNOW WHAT WERE TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE WERE --JUST DUMB OL TRUCK DRIVERS-- AND WE DONT KNOW HOW TO THINK OR WHAT WE TALKING ABOUT HUH????,

,OR DO WE...OR BETTER YET IF U REALLY WANNA GET UGLY....HOW ABOUT THAT PATIENT SITTING N DA HOSPITAL WAITING FOR medicine that they life depends on and THAT TANK OF OXYGEN TO BE DELIVERED BY THAT HAZMAT LOAD...THATS SITTING PARKED AT DA TRUCKSTOP ..??? WAKEUP PEOPLE THIS IS REALITY...---STOP WHATEVER YOUR DOING FOR A SECOND AND JUST LISTEN TO ME..(((( TRUCK DRIVERS CAN MAKE THIS COUNTRY LOOK LIKE WW3- WE CAN MAKE DA SO CALLED RECESSION LOOK LIKE A DAY N DA PARK...

CONSIDERING ALL THE POWER...YES POWER ..WE HAVE)) DEC 22ND HOLIDAY SEASON DO U REALIZE HOW MUCH CHAOS THAT WOULD CAUSE....ITS A NECCESARY EVIL....IT JUST HAVENT HAPPENED YET

..BUT IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN TO THIS EXTREME to get our POINT ACROSS....IM ALL FOR DEMOCRACY BUT CONGRESS AND FMCSA ARENT LISTENING AND HAVENT BEEN LISTENING FOR YEARS....THEY DONT CARE...

.THEY CAN HAVE ALL THERE TRUCKS AND THEY BULLCRAP REGUALTIONS...WHEN 2290s stopped getting paid and INSURANCE COMPANIES STOP GETTING THAT $15,000-$20,000.& UP FROM OPS I BET THEY CHANGE SOMETHING THEN...I BET THEY DO...THESE PEOPLE THAT CONTROL THE INDUSTRY ARE (( COMFORTABLE)) RUNNING OUR LIVES N DA GROUND AND ALL WE DO IS GET ON TTR AND OTHER SITES N WHINE AND COMPLAIN ABOUT IT WITHOUT DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

.WELL NOW HERES YOUR CHANCE LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD AND LET YOUR INPUT COUNT...THIS IS A NEW GENERATION OF DRIVERS....

..ONLY PEOPLE WILL B DRIVING WILL BE ROOKIES WITH NOEXPEREINCE N U WANNA TALK ACCIDENTS/FATALITIES /VIOLATIONS LOG BOOK VIOLATIONS ON THE ROAD BECAUSE OF THIS....LET THEM GO RIGHT AHEAD AND KNOCK THEYSELFS OUT..AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED I BET THEY COME BACK TO DA BARGAINING TABLE THEN.

....WE NEED CHANGES FOR OWNER OPS AS FAR AS THIS BULL-$HIIT FSC GOES WHAT A JOKE....THE FSC FOR OPS HAVENT BEEN CHANGED .FOR YEARS THEY HAVE FOUND WAYS TO KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING.

..? UNTIL ? NOW ??? THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES A DOLLAR VALUABLE IS THE PRODUCT OR GOOD THAT ITS PURCHASING ?? DONT U UNDERSTAND IT??,, ITS SIMPLE......SO DANM SIMPLE??? There ARE SMART TRUCK DRIVERS ON PLANET EARTH YOU KNOW REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE NEWS OR MEDIA EXPLOIT OUT THERE......THINK PEOPLE....JUST THINK..ITS NOT ILLEGAL YET....BUT BROTHER LETS STRIKE WHILE DA IRON IS HOT 10;4 OVER N OUT! Sometimes you have to DO DIFFERENT THINGS TO GET DIFFERENT RESULTS.....EXPECTING DIFFERENT RESULTS WITHOUT ACTUALLY CHANGING THE PROBLEM IS INSANITY!

 

I would honor a strike, just to see things get shaken up a little. The main thing is organization. You can have a handful of truckers on a forum say they wouldn't strike, but if it is organized, as it apparently is with the three companies in the article, it would collect a lot of support.

 

Gonna have to say no way to this. Why on Earth would I want MORE government in my business?

I have enough trouble making a profit with all the government intervention that we have now. Why would I want the government to set my rate? This is as stupid as having a minimum wage. You think it's bad now? Wait till you do this and ALL loads will be the same flat rate. After all, the law says we only have to pay that.

Sorry super trucker, way bad idea.

 

Agreed, everything posted in this thread would mean a significant cut in pay to me. I don't want anyone elses' "average"