truckers protest in ont

They have slit their own throat. Now that the scale has who participated in the shutdown they are going to be targeting them at a later date.

 

most gravel haulers round here are all paid off tonnage not hours or miles

 

Great. Let's all keep driving and eating #### because were afraid of getting pulled into a scale. Chicken #### attitude.

Shut it down......shut it down once and do it right the first time.
They won't bother you for fear of another shut down.

 

Can somebody show me where one of these protest have ever accomplished anything? Kudos to those trying to stand up for themselves, but might be time to try something that actually works??

 

sounds like stupid union protests.

 

Ac. You say I have a chicken #### attitude. If you open your eyes you would of realized that there has been hundreds of protests before and there will be hundreds of protests to come. There is no solidarity among drivers anymore and I was tired of banging my head against the wall. I got out of the highway game. Went oilfield and making some real money now. So saying that shut it down and then they will be scared is totally out of wack

 

Unless I misunderstand the protest, usually, these kinds of jobs are put out for tender. The hauling company puts in a bid of what they need to be paid to do the job and, if the rate THEY ASK FOR is acceptable, they get the job. In this case, they lowballed the rate, the price of fuel went up and now, with the higher fuel price they can't make ends meet. If this is the case, they are protesting against their own stupidity and the fact that they can't run a business. We all know that fuel prices are volatile and, unless you live under a rock, we all knew they were going to go up. If you want to submit a lowball rate with no fuel surcharge provisions to account for fuel hikes, then you deserve to go broke.

 

I want to see them protest like back in the early 1990's, JB sent flats to Canada and cut the rates for lumber hauling back to the U.S.

Somehow the loaded JB trucks caught on fire, now that is protesting.

 

No thats how PRICE cutters were treated in QUEBEC at the time.

 

I could not recall the exact location but remembered the photos of JB trucks in ashes. Someone posted a dump truck like that in the group not long ago. The story was that a man from Washington moved to one of the Canadian providence and attempted to undercut the locals.

If the American truckers would grow a pair then half the nonsense going on would stop.