Must read!!!! Stopped by FL DOT yesterday....

Local is 100 miles radius from your home Terminals address.

 

Well Guntoter, that's the attitude that's made this Industry so hard to survive as a Owner Operator. You mention spell check, im not going to stay all day checking every word, you guys understand, i type fast, next OOIDA has had representatives in Washington, the day they started selling ins. and services? they became a special interest organization. Just ask the hundred of members that leave after the first year! Their lobbyist in DC. have been bought and paid for! they started the fight but $$$$$$ for them became first priority. Now, $4.00 gallon fuel? let me tell you something! im going to show you my plan! Let's say if we unify all Owner Operators, and we are 20,000 small business that invest $5,000 dollars each and build our private fuel island around the country and order as much oil tankers from saudi arabia, canada etc... right there we the investors will be playing the same game of the oil cartel and with the investment, the members will be buying diesel at $1.25 a gallon! Makes sense????????? The less money you pay in fuel, the more money in your settlement you will have and right there is your increase in pay! Im a Owner Operator that in the past pulled any trailers and business you cant imagine! i know the business and we have to play the same game the Oil Investors and the Politicians are playing. If we start supporting truckers running for City, State, Governors, then Congressmen, then that CSA 2010 can be overhauled where instead of 10 hours , 6 should be mandatory! instead of 34 reset, 30 should be the new reset! The last question that you have about the rates? listen Guntoter, we are going through a very disastrous economic slowdonwn since 2007. If companies in this country had confidence in the leaders, they would've invest more and orders in this country will skyrocket and freight follows. The more freight, not enough truckers to cover the orders? result????? higher rates! Supply and demand and theres your answers. I dont know how you were raised but you have alot of negativity and you already gave up! Because OOIDA failed, you gave up to fight for your fellow truckers and your Country? Remember, Soildiers in this country gave their life for America! We the Truckers in this Country have the power to halt Chinas gigantic economy because years ago we got rid of the Vocational trade schools where we built things with our hands! We are a consuming country and thats why the Container Business is so profitable right now and in the future. We also can halt Latin Americas growing economy with a strike in the East Ports, but again, that wont fix the problem, we have to get our people where the laws are made in the voting booth. Right now i got a 5 point plan that i will shair with everybody. We have social media where we can be informed in seconds. Look how many Leaders were gone in the Arab Spring by the protesters communicating via tweeter.