Silent Strike or Active Protest??

[JetBote]

I've been parked since last night, at home watching everything unfold. What's making news? The drivers that are out there. Are we doing more good sitting around waiting for numbers to unfold due to lack of fuel sales, or be seen by the public? I can't see jack from my house, so I'm going out looking for a slowdown. I don't have to buy fuel until tomorrow, so I hope this helps. I'm leaving western PA on 80 and heading to Indianapolis. I hope you don't think I'm abandoning the cause, I just want to be in the face of it.

[GrumpyDad]

If your loaded and plan on delivering that load then your not doing anything to help!!! I don't care how you justify it!!! I too am shut down at home and I don't have to be out there to see what's happening. I'm sworry I just DON'T see your reasoning.

[Joe Dirt]

Holding a load hostage is not acceptable. Shut down if you want, but if you were holding one of my loads hostage while doing it I'd be reporting it stolen right now, Grumpy.

[GrumpyDad]

I'm not sayin hold the load!! Take it back or drop it at the nearest terminal and refuse to run for awhile!!! Your not going to get anywhere holding freight, I've been in this business too long for that ####! If you keep runnin your not doing the rest of us any good. But that is the biggest problem anyway, drivers can't stick together or agree on anything long enough to get anything changed. You go ahead and do what you think is right, but don't come cryin to me when you can't afford to fuel up or you loose your truck due the rising cost of fuel and the low freight rates making it impossible to justify continuing!!!!

[JetBote]

Grumpy, you don't get it. I know you don't, so let me help you. When we have a load, we were hired by X company to deliver it to Y company. You are contracted by law to do so. If you hold their product, you are are stealing and or holding stolen property. Are you with me so far, genius? An analogy would a bud and passenger scenario. The bus, takes passengers (freight) from point A to point B. The freight is paid. Your only obligation is to get it there safe and on time. If you're and idiot and don't do such, you are now kidnapping (felony) compared to your freight which I guarantee is over the amount and puts you in felony grand theft status. So, to avoid your assenine thought process, the smart thing to do is deliver the lost and then REFUSE to pick up another. Do you have any questions? You're exactly what's wrong with truck drivers today. Guys like you don't think.

[JetBote]

And another thing... I'm a company driver. Im doing what I can for the cause. Honestly, I don't care about fuel prices as much as others. I get the same pay, the same health insurance, the 401k. I would hate to see my company go down, but I'd slide right into another.

[GrumpyDad]

Originally Posted by JetBote

And another thing... I'm a company driver. Im doing what I can for the cause. Honestly, I don't care about fuel prices as much as others. I get the same pay, the same health insurance, the 401k. I would hate to see my company go down, but I'd slide right into another.

That's what I thought your a company driver so you don't care what it takes to run that truck! You clearly did'nt read my last post. If you did you would see that I did'nt mean hold someones freight. I'm sorry I can't sit here and argue with stupidity.

[JetBote]

I read it, after it appeared when I posted mine. Do you understand how a forum works? I click reply, and whatever happens in the background is unknown until done typing and posted, so there is a little bit of human latency built in. So, let's to back to yesterday. I am a company driver, that's been established. I DO NOT care what it takes to run the truck. I get up, kick some tires, draw some lines, dump fuel in it and drive the SOB. I don't care if fuel is $100/gallon as long as my company knows how to make it profit, and I continue to make money. I was doing my part, and to "guys" like you, you choose to keep drawing lines and separation between drivers. So for me to help you with that goal, I offer this from yesterday: the more oo's that go out, the more freight available. In other words, 50,000 "guys" like you go down, there are 50,000 more loads available for us every other day. Keep up tfe division. Good job.