Small-business trucker understands frustration, but won’t join shutdown

[Cybergal]

Small-business trucker understands frustration, but won’t join shutdown
3/27/08

By 9 a.m. on Thursday, March 27, Carol Edwards of Brookhaven Transportation Inc. had already received the same e-mail three separate times from different people who were forwarding cattle hauler Dan Little’s “Open letter to all truckers” message, which calls for a national truck shutdown on April 1.
Although, as she said, “everyone she knows” is talking about the shutdown, Edwards said none of the truckers she personally knows are going to participate.
“No, we haven’t heard of anybody that’s actually going to do it, just this letter going around that everybody’s talking about doing it,” she said. “In all these letters, it sounds like the people writing these are planning to do it, but I don’t personally know those people.”
She and her husband, Steve, who are both OOIDA members, have been involved in the trucking industry since 1980. They live in Siloam Springs, AR. Steve drives, and the Edwards also have four owner-operators leased to them. While Edwards said her husband won’t be participating in the shutdown, she said he hasn’t ruled that out for his drivers if they want to do it.
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[BD1]

Originally Posted by Cybergal

Small-business trucker understands frustration, but won’t join shutdown
3/27/08

The lady interviewed is one smart cookie !!!!

Nothing will become of this JOKE of a "Strike, Shutdown, Slowdown etc..." or whatever it is called .

[1989 Pete]

This strike is like voting everyone has an voice!!!!!

[wirenut194]

Originally Posted by BD1

The lady interviewed is one smart cookie !!!!

Nothing will become of this JOKE of a "Strike, Shutdown, Slowdown etc..." or whatever it is called .

sounds like someones not buying there own fuel [quet]

[Roadmedic]

Originally Posted by wirenut194

sounds like someones not buying there own fuel [quet]

She buys her own fuel, and since this is still a free country, she is allowed to choose where she stands just as you are.

[Acer12]

The problem is Jim Johnson and OOIDA. I'm sure they have a "plan"...lol

[Roadmedic]

Originally Posted by Acer12

The problem is Jim Johnson and OOIDA. I'm sure they have a "plan"...lol

They are an organization that is no different than AARP for the elderly.

Being a member of OOIDA has no power impact.