All truckers unite april1,2011 shut em down

I read an article last week about truckers striking in europe. The european countries are secretly trying to come up with a way to nationalize the euorpean trucking industry.

If they make it a government owned and controlled industry, strikes will be illegal and trucks confiscated.

The truckers will have to get approval from the government just to go and buy a truck and the plates, insurance, permits, etc etc will be given out by the government and owned by the government and subject to revocation when and if they decide to take them back and literally put you out of business.

Sounds like the old days of REGULATION when only a few where allowed to have the authourity to run a trucking business.

The rates where set by the government ICC. and we had all them bingo cards and no competition

Going to be very interesting to see if in fact this is true and if it goes anywhere.

 

that's not going to heappened not in europe never i have live there for 27 years i know how are thing.they will burn the gouverment building .

 

I live in miami ,iam not like pickup a very cheap and very heavy load for nothing,better deadhead to georgia or s carolina,the problem is everytime somebody take this cheap load ,when nobody take this loads the rate go up,only the peoples not anderstand this,this is the big problem,to much drivers happy whit little money, this is my option what iam thinking

 

Owner Operators out number the the large companies now. Now is the time to pick a state during the first week of April and just not take any freight in or out of the state or one week. in Florida the produce season will be in full swing and probably california too. That way you can still work and put a hurting on the shippers as well.

 

You think it would work better to pick a 'BLOCK' of states?

 

Might not hurt to pick several states - the worse revenue states I have been in lately is Florida is number 1 - Arizona and Nv are tied for #2, Texas probably#3 and California #4. Another thought, you really don't know if it is the shippers or the brokers who are putting the screws to you. however, I guess it flows downhill and will end up on the shipper's doorstep.

 

So throw good $ after bad?You try to make OOIDA talking points and that dog wont hunt
OMG they got the split sleeper berth? never have used it,they have DONE NOTHING TO IMPROVE THE INDUSTRY IN THE PAST TEN YEARS! PERIOD!

They only tried to improve the rules for lazy ### drivers( i need to nap-nap)

The HOS(10-14-70,and 34 restart) are and were PERFECT for us,it finally gave a driver control over his day,what does OOIDA DO? challenge it? insted of giving it a chance to work they challenged it.

And on the subject of "EOBR's"???? they challenged it,wasnt it OOIDA's stance when the above hours went in effect to "LOG IT LEGAL" to show them??? well wouldnt that be the same NOW?

 

If anyones is still wondering why these things never really work--just look at this board--no offense meant--but look at all the disagreement here?
Just my $.02

 

yea i remember the strikes in the 80's 90's. almost had them in the 80's till it puttered out.. never be the same now. too many are living by the paycheck. I remember that a person was trying to set up an account for all the drivers to participate in , so when we did strike, we all had the cash to pay for our cost's but no one took it seriously.

 

April 1st hhhmmmmmm.... another April Fool's Joke ????