it's really hard to get behind a movement that doesn't even know what its' mad about.

You will get better at it, but some days it does not matter. Some days the universe will be against you.

 

It's not in my nature to give up , and I'm never late , seems like both those bad habits are going to change

 

my best days are behind me , things don't get better from here on out , but thanks for the encouragement

 

As a company driver, it helps to work for a company who has people in the office who can think and assign loads to the right trucks based on projected hours and appointment times.

 

I'm doomed the people in the office have no idea how to dispatch , in fact all our drivers dispatch ourselves . Jk I'll be fine , I work for the largest , most gouged percentage wise group of O/O in the country

 

One of the great things about e logs is that it forces the office folks to plan better! Why would they otherwise when they have a fleet of drivers willing to falsify their logs to make up for their poor load planning.

 

Do some research. Those strikes in the 70s were forced participation. Owner operators were despised and called scabs and if you didn't park your truck when the union said you should they responded with acts of violence and sabotage.

 

Had a chat with a fedex contractor the other day.

He says he does not turn his e-log on Saturdays. He hits his near 70hrs by Friday, from a Sunday start. Dude looked tired as a mofo...lol

I was like "hmmmm"...I guess even the big boys cheat too?

 

Some were forced some respected the strike but it worked , I'm sure it would take extreme measures to make a strike hold nowadays as well , you don't think truckers were respected just because of the job we did . I sat out the Canadian truck strike around 1990 sitting on a bridge by buffalo with a load of potatos , I could have delivered to Toronto they were letting perishables through , I chose to respect the strike .
What surprised me was the cars that drove by honked and waved their support.
I may be wrong , I've been wrong plenty of times , but I think the only way we get change and respect back in this industry is to strike .
We have been spiraling down the drain since those times , with out the slightest improvement , we gave up our true power by listening to the ones that say a strike will never work

 

I believe that you are correct, however; The change that you and I want is not the change that the megas want.
Also, someone in my shoes that now has trucks to support their business which is not trucking, will be hard pressed to abide by a strike. I am a contractor, and own three trucks, two tractors and a dump truck. Shutting down my lowboy might result in shutting down all the equipment that I have on a job, which would be tremendously more expensive than if I just shut down my trucks. I would try my darndest to plan around a strike though.