First this thread might get sent to the strike forum!
The above that Jabber says has been done.
Won't work!
It's TEMPORARY!
Just haul the drivers in the lead trucks off to jail and throw a fireman or a tow truck on the thing and road is unblocked and the next group of drivers in line sees the first go to jail and traffic flows! The only ones to benefit is the drive by news media as they get a few sound bites and video to take up air time and viewers and that's it!
Drivers do NOT want to go to jail and I do not want to see them go as it will cost THEM money for bail, wrecker, court, fines and who will help him pay all of this? Not truck drivers as they can't feed their families as it is! It defeats the whole idea of the nothing in nothing out strike, such as that easy to figure out idea of keep moving keep making money!
The nothing in nothing out benefits strike, everyone even the stupid, such as owners and companies "after that buck" That is why strikes don't work because of the money grubbers! Also they aren't going to fire every driver that refuses to haul to those areas as it'll cost them almost as much in "orientation and training fees" as they would have made on just a few loads! it's NOT the money but getting rules changed that will benefit these BFI companies also!
Besides I'd take it as an honor if BFI fired me because they were...an....ahhh.... BOTTOM FEEDER INCORPORATED! So frickin stupid that even their college educated can't see the simplicity of the idea! They still make money but we're just shutting off a certain area as Bufford T Justice says "as an attention getter!" move! But what do I know I'm just one of the stupid drivers not a CEO, owner or college kid! I actually lived in the world of trucking not behind a desk thinking of ways to screw my drivers to line my pockets!
The added benefit of this is when area one figures that it's best to do as we request and things are fixed we turn our sights on area 2! How long before plan 2 is implemented do you think the politicians in area 2 will fall all over them selves to rectify the problem we bring to their attention? They could not stand the idea that nothing comes into a 100 mile area and have to put up with people screaming for their food and toilet paper because their leaders pass stupid rules that all of a sudden affect them! The whole idea of the nothing in nothing out strike. You get MORE people mad at the main players than just a stupid traffic jam! That stuff worked back in 1975 and once or twice afterwords which just stopped traffic but this will work if you get those morons in mega fleet to jump on! You just have to rattle their self inflated heads a little to get them to open those eyes!
Next I'll announce I'm running for President on the new party ticket! The "Easy way to fix stupid party" ! ROFLMAO! Naah I have always questioned the sanity of someone wanting to run a country as POTUS! Heck, Odumba is already turning grey and he hasn't even made it to two years yet!
Now all of this is IMHO!
A Strike that will work OR that will get real Attention
Discussion in 'Truckers Strike Forum' started by Rollover the Original, Jul 19, 2009.
Page 3 of 6
-
-
Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds
Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.
-
There's no need to break any laws or risk going to jail, just don't haul cheap freight.
As a company driver, run 100% legal and by the book.
As individuals we can make those decisions for ourselves, and don't have to worry about what the "other driver" is doing. -
Mr. Rollover: I'm in.
-
Yeah, I'm gonna sit around and not take food and supplies into the area where my entire family lives.
You guys strike, rates into the area will shoot up, and I'll laugh at you all the way to the bank.
-
Essentially what is being discussed is a blockade. Wiki defines a blockade as; "an effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade
They go on to list four key elements of a blockade;
First: the value of the item being blockaded must warrant the need to blockade.
Second: the strength of the blockading force must be equal to or greater in strength than the opposition. The blockade is only successful if the 'thing' in question is prevented from reaching its receiver.
Third: in the case of land blockades, choosing suitable terrain. Knowing where the force will be traveling will help the blockader choose where to blockade: for example, forcing a garrison between a high mountain pass in order to bottleneck the opposing force.
Fourth: the willpower to maintain a blockade. The success of a blockade is based almost entirely on the will of the people who maintain it.
Now I've never been accused of being the brightest bulb in the pack, but it has always been my understanding that a blockade is considered as a precursor of war. So that makes me wonder if doing so against ones own country could or would be viewed as an act of treason.
Regardless, items two and four are where this idea begins and ends. -
This is the reason why strikes do not work! He needs to think a little bet harder. YOU know we are cutting off your area. You stock up and your family is fine but this right here is why we can't get truck drivers into the same pool! Sorry sazook you feel this way but it could be for the better
-
But when the Teamsters do it all's well! Really both of you read the post!
-
Man this is one of the best ideas I have ever heard.
I love it. I wish I had thought of it.
How can I help? -
Yea in a few months u will be crying DOT Screwed u wanting other drivers to help typical.
-
The problem here is, that if I let my family and friends know, they will let their family and friends know, and so on. Now if you imagine that every driver will tell their friends and family, and then they will tell everyone they know, then the word will make it to the exact people you are trying to blockade. Everyone will then stock up, and not care about the fact that nothing is coming in.
Just looking at my friends list on facebook I have...
An accountant with the Democratic party of VA
The son of the Lt. Gov of Virginia
An assistant to Congressman Eric Cantor
An assistant to Congressman Bobby Scott
A Virginia state senator and a delagate.
All of these are actual friends of mine, not just random people that I've added, and many of my friends are friends of them as well. So if I tried to let my friends and family know, it is inevitable these people would find out, and then.... well, you can figure it out.
WTF?
Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds
Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.
Page 3 of 6