More rules and regs? I think its time for a shut down strike.

You aren't forced to drive put in the work and get another profession. Every profession that isn't hunting or gathering is unnatural when you get right down to it. I worked behind the scenes in the health insurance industry for years a HEAVILY regulated industry and I didn't hear half the whining that I've heard in just 8 months of being around this industry.

"OMG they is forcing me to take a 15 minute break my family ain't gon be able to eat nowz"

Meanwhile back in reality you all still make more driving a truck than the average college grad. Be thankful for the good things about the profession and drive on or park and move on.

 

BRAVO!

 

Yeah they make more because they work 20 or 30 hours a week more .

 

Yup,no life,no how!!!

 

People don't understand how powerful a strike is. I worked for a union company for a big foodservice giant. We went on strike company wide cause some janitors got canned for BS. Strike lasted less then 24HRs. The company couldn't hack that much time loss. I was actually on my day off so no time loss. Anytime loss for any carrier is a crap ton of money. It's not gonna take more then 48hrs if everyone actually did it. This would benefit everyone if your making good money or not.

 

Strikes have also put many MANY out of a job PERMANATLY. With the economy today? Look before you leap. The public dont really care about you. They care about reasonable prices on their goods. Do you really want to be the "reason" for price increases? Best to learn how to adjust, adapt, and deal. Personaly, I dont really need and driver to be my "mouth-piece" for me. Do it just fine for myself, and been doing fine in this industry for years with no real problems. But, Im on board with LS8891 and S.D.M. last quotes. Be safe out there drivers.

 

I've seen Teamster strikes last weeks and drivers go back making concessions , not gains . The same with UAW . New union members make far less than former union workers .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-meadors/did-president-obama-hand-_b_1317910.html

 

Maytag near me, UAW strike around 1970... 6 month strike that hardly produced any real gains for the members, but by the time they paid interest on money they had to borrow to survive the strike, lost homes they couldn't make payments on, cars that got repossessed for lack of payments, etc, they came out on the losing end.

The air traffic controller strike in '80 or '81 comes to mind. Everyone got terminated.

The Teamsters strike in '93. Churchill closed it's doors permanently.

Another UAW strike at Maytag near me in Newton, Iowa. Maytag sold to Whirlpool who then closed up all operations in Newton leaving a stack of folks with nothing. Over a decade later and folks still haggling with whirlpool and the union to get stuff that was promised to them and not delivered upon.

And the list goes on and on. There are examples, sure, of union strike success. But when you look at how the level of union membership has gone over the last 40 years, it would seem that union membership and strikes are not as productive as some would think.

 

not to mention, we don't have Twinkies anymore because of a strike...