It's time for a strike!

[Cybergal]

ROKK....YOU have not been reprimanded only asked to keep the racist comments out of your posts.

I feel that this request is warranted by MODS.

YOU may post your opinions, but GEEZ just leave that kind of stuff out please.

[IgoBOOM?]

Hey I think shutting down beside the road is a great idea, we need to get organized so we can get ready for it. Bring grill's, food, drinks ect. Have a big get together, make a day of it. Then mabe we could coax the one's that are reluctant to stop to pull over with us??? And come on no name calling plz. This would get BIG media attention if we could stand together show a united front. This could be a start. And it might lead to bigger better things. A day here and there would not break the bank and keep food off the table.
Long time reader first time poster

[Carolina Thunder]

So is this what trucking has turned into.....a bunch of spineless cowards ready to tuck tail and run rather then stay and fight? Of course nothing will get done if we dont take a stand or if we continue to bend over any time the government or your company wants stick it to us! If you will not take a stand for your self then take a stand for the people that you love! As bad as it is now can you imagine how it will be 20 years from now?? Think about your kids and what kind of world they have to look forward to and then think of how you will tell them that you had a chance to make a difference but you didnt want to take the effort or time to try. All of you know that what happens to us directly effects the American economy and it will only get worse if nothing is done!

Some one asked how we would spread the word. Uh hello...can you say Internet or CB radio??? Set a time and date for the strike and post it on every forum you can find. Make a video about the details of the strike and the reason for it then post it on Goggle, You tube, Yahoo, AOL, or what ever else is out there, hell run and add in your local paper. Stand out on the front porch for Gods sake and scream it to the world, do what ever it takes to get the word out!!!!

Parking on the side of the road will not make a difference you say?? So what would you want to do, park in a T stop or rest area so you could be with the rest of the drivers that dont give a damn! Parking on the side of every major interstate/highway would be the best place to park because of the fact that everyone would see us, wonder what the hell we were doing and then start asking questions. Make a big sign and tie it to the side of your truck saying why your parked. Tell people that if things were better for us then they would be for them as well because it would lower the cost of just about everything. Get the people on our sides so that they will start raising as much hell as us and then you will see a drastic change in the way we are treated.

Or do nothing.

[Highballin]

Originally Posted by Carolina Thunder

An hour would make a difference if you parked all of the trucks on the side of every major interstate, not the T stops or rest areas. You have people running there ##### off right now to try and make up for the high cost of fuel and every thing else so it's unlikely you could convince them to shut down for day or more but one hour should be no problem.

Maybe two or three hours would be better, would give the news agences more time to get out and cover the story!

Yes but the NEWS AGENCIES will not be on your side just look at them now.Reporting every bad thing they can about trucks.

[Highballin]

Originally Posted by rookietrucker

Most likely it will be JB Hunt and Walmart drivers they will have forced at gunpoint ....

If the Truck is broke they cant force you.But if it was marshal law NO LOGS<NO SCALES AND NO DOT CHECKS> Dang that would be no fun at all.Another good thing is the goverment would give you fuel even better.

[gearjammer-2000]

Originally Posted by Highballin

Yes but the NEWS AGENCIES will not be on your side just look at them now.Reporting every bad thing they can about trucks.

you know its not about what other people think about us anymore that is a luxury we can no longer afford ,its about SURVIVAL in this industry, so I don't give a rats ##### what they think I am doing what is right not popular

[Highballin]

Originally Posted by Rokk

I expected to wake up this morning and find that something had already started. but i guess i cant be suprised. thats why i dont and wont be the first to shut it down. Generaly i like to follow the old adage of Lead, follow or get out of the way, i like to lead.

how ever in this scenario, i see visions of me sitting on side of the road, for days and no one stopping to join in, .. thats trucking i guess. in this scenario, i would just waste my time, and look the fool.

one cant blame this on our current president either. this is all OPEC to blame. we all let them get as powerful as they are. its our fault.
ironically, as long as my loads dont go below $1.95 at the least a mile i will keep on rolling. any less than that i will just go fishing.


last night i figured a brotherhood would have came together. this morning, i see what i always see., drivers afraid of their own shadows, and greed abound. most of you wouldnt even stop for 5 minutes out of your busy day to help a stranded motorist. and 95 percent of you wouldnt even dream of slowing it down to 50 mph for 3 days to get your point across either.

as i said before, if others organized and shut em down. i would be right with them. but in this i will not lead, as i dont haul cheap freight, its really no skin off my back. we own 3 trucks out there on the road. we dont over rev, we dont speed, we dont idle unless its extremely cold. we make savings when we can, and we are still going strong. even in california the other day, with the states "no idle" rule in effect, i walk through the parking lot at the J in barstow, and every single truck is idling. there wa sno need to do so. we stayed there for te night and opend the windows and side doors on sleeper and was right nice and comfortable.

My point is, all you truckers now days dont care about anything except yourself. you bitchy and moan about every little thing out there. you let your companies push you around to the breaking point. and ther eis n brotherhood. them days are gone, and always will be. i dont see trucks as ever making a difference again. the days of the " white Knight" are over with, left with our grandfathers of old.


i hope even one of you can prove me wrong, actually i pray for it. i challenge you to do it.

Hey ROKK they would just think you was broke down an keep on driving.

[Martin97]

"So is this what trucking has turned into.....a bunch of spineless cowards ready to tuck tail and run rather then stay and fight?"

Trucking is just a job and a business.. a battlefield mentality makes no sense here. this is not a situation where working harder will make a difference, your costs remain the same and your margins will not improve.. therefore who are you fighting?.. would you want government subsidized fuel paid for at taxpayer expense? or the government forcing businesses to pay more for shipping products? another burden passed on to the general public.. this is a NO WIN situation, the world is growing and consuming more fuel, its not just us anymore. Get ready for a DRAMATIC lifestyle change.
This is what happens when free housing vouchers are offered, then run out... imagine the effect if it was fuel and food!...
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[Skateboardr'swife]

I think I'm in the right spot here, hope so anyway...

My household feels that a strike is warranted, past due, etc.. Husband works for a small, but good, company. Not sure if the owner(who I told about this forum today) would go along with it, but hubby would take time off if had to..
sooo...

not sure if this has been thought of, didn't see it but..

part of a strike is based on emotion! Fear, anger, resentment, any emotion you can think of..... Wherever, however, or whenever this is done, it needs to be done with emotional control! Lets just say for example, you have a group of drivers together, "emotion feeds emotion", and an uneducated 4 wheeler comes along and starts yelling things,"get back to work" etc.etc... now you have another "emotion feeding emotion" situation and if media wasn't looking before, they will be now!
I feel we need to stand up and achieve something but it needs to be done with control, not feeding the image that some people seem to have about drivers...

Just my two cents worth

[ghostdawg]

I have been reading all this and the time is now this morning a barrel of oil went to 110.70 a barrel and they are saying it well not stop there for us to look for 120.00 a barrel . we dont need to stop on the roads or slow down we need to take them to the house and go on vac . i parked mine yesterday i have had enough the only way it well happen is to quite talking about it and do it the more we wait the more it well go up . we need to go after the cost of fuel and the prise of freight the brooker are killing us . the only way we r going to get out of a ression is to get the prise of fuel down then people well start to buy again and we r the only ones that can do . are goverment sure no going to get the jog done . it well take at least one week if we all well pull to gether and do it .