STRIKE NOW !!! If you got the guts.

striking over a weekend?
Now that makes complete sense.

 

The only way to change government regulation is to get into the Government agency responsible for said policy.

Once again, do you honestly think if you and five hundred of your friends (insert whatever ridiculous number of people you THINK are going to "support" this venture) take the day off (or days, whatever the time frame you plan on trying this is) that there won't be 3rd party replacements with plenty of power units sitting there waiting to take your place?

 

He's right.

Prove it to yourself by going to the Fedex.com site and getting a quote.

Shipping via Fedex vs a dry van is comparing apples to oranges but it's all I have right now:

25 cases of dry goods at 10lbs each and totaling 250 lbs measuring 10x10x10 shipping 2765 miles from Raleigh NC to Salinas CA being picked up on 9/25 and arriving 9/30 runs a shipper $437.00.

Expand from 250 to 25,000 lbs which is 10 fold times $437 is $4370 and shipping 2765 miles at 33cpm with a new driver being paid $937.00.

But call Fedex and tell them you're shipping ketchup packets and they'll refuse to carry it. It has to go truckload, not air.

The new truck driver will carry it at 33cpm.

But suppose it's not ketchup, suppose it hazmat, and the new driver will not make any extra but the carrier will charge quite a bit extra claiming higher insurance costs.

And if the only guy in the area is paid 40cpm it's still nothing guys, it's nothing. When a single BOTTLE of ketchup retails at $3.19 but costs only .50 cents, do the math. The consumer got jacked. YOU get screwed again.

Carriers are making wild amounts of money.

The mega carrier system of hiring and training new drivers keeps washing them out, keeps them hopping from one carrier to the other till those drivers top out at 40cpm and have no where else to go.

Some guys make good money in trucking but those guys are still going to top out. And where to do they go when they're unhappy? To another 40cpm job.

You can't tell a young man anything about that. They only know what they know, have no clue yet what it's like to have a 23 year old take your place.

The stage is set, the mega's keep a fresh supply of new drivers who don't fathom they're hired into a system that's eliminating mature drivers.

 

And a strike does not mean taking a few days off.

A strike means holding the line until what you're asking for is given consideration.

I remember the Interstate Bakery Strike, took the company under. Then all that happened was other companies took the customers and nothing changed. What needed to happen was EVERY worker went on strike at every competitor's bakery so there was no harm done to one company. We would have just gone without Twinkies and HoHo's for a year.

Folks, strikes are a serious matter and companies will tell you how serious it can be. Not a day, not a weekend. Not one group of workers, not one company. Strikes are only effective if everyone understands what's being lost prior to the strike and they come together across the country.

You're a trucker. You're a consumer. Either way don't you want to see fellow Americans earning a living? Or do you want to keep seeing Nike's coming from India on a shipping cargo container being picked up for 33cpm and put on another Intermodal train to make it's way to the Heartland? It would be better to make Nike's here in America - jobs for everyone.

America will never have great-paying jobs for our sons and daughters if we don't see how the problems and solutions actually work.

 

When people are hungry and/or homeless, it is very difficult for them to think beyond their basic needs. People have to eat and have a place to live. Everything else takes a back burner. As a result, people will settle for $400.00 to $500.00 a week in wages. This could be far more than they ever had in their lives. One cannot blame them for thinking or acting in such a manner.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

It looks as though the days of a career truck driver wanting to or striving to stay at one company for 40 plus years are coming to an end. It is a sad shame, not to mention a serious loss of maturity and experience.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

The economy has "steered" a lot of people into becoming OTR truck drivers. One cannot blame people for trying to survive. When the economy improves, perhaps the "refugee camp on wheels" syndrome will become a thing of the past.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

There's many older people who live on less than $500 a week and lots of people who don't drive trucks that earn a lot less than $ 500 a week. In a lot of cases they work 2 or 3 jobs and over 80 hours a week sometimes more. I doubt if they went on strike that you would support them? In most cases you'd complain because you wouldn't be able to make deliveries.

Basic economics say's if you give someone a raise that money has to come from somewhere. Overall that means prices rise. Its a vicious circle, the more you want and get the more it costs. Which makes those already suffering, suffer more.....

But lets see what happens when Obama care really takes hold and companies cut hours to 30 or less so they don't have to pay health benefits....

 

You know as yet I don't think anyone knows whose leading this so called Strike and what the real agenda is. But not to worry you have "World Wide Support" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Geez man, you can't even get US support, but you're getting the Socialists and anti Americans (Russians, Chinese, Cubans, Venezuelans and the others) to support a US Truckers Strike.... That's brilliant, perhaps you should apply to the UN we'd have solidarity within a week............... Dream on..

 

Where do you think the "NEW BREED" of steering wheel holders come from??????