Strike

Well what is really going on??? If we want this to work, we all have to be on the same page. We can't have various states striking at different times, nor do I think a day will really make a difference.

 

Hey maybe they are too late the shutdown might have been last week??Stop hauling cheap frieght When you buy a truck do you tell the sales man how much money he will get on the truck NO he will tell you while laughing NOPE THATS TOO CHEAP.

 

What ever happen .. In the old days Trucker's would take a stand on issues and try and make things better..I bet our Grandfathers are rolling over in there graves about this..I say lets put something together..

I will do what ever on my part to make my end happen

 

Well then. I guess we need to strike and stop paying those ##$%^&* ( OIDA/ATA ) money for a job they are not doing. I canceled my membership a long time ago!

 

A quarter of the drivers out there do not even speak english. We are too broad of spectrum of drivers today.
All day I hear people grumbling about fuel but everyone is passing like I was sitting still. If people are worried too much I think they might be slowing down a bit. Some driver's are even praising the high cost of fuel(Sirrius 147 Loading Dock 17 March 10:00am) Its hard times right now and I wish the best for all I just dont think that in today's trucking envrioment that a strike is possible.

 

Ohhh Yes there are a lot of scams out there...

 

I was wondering when it was going to get bad enough that truckers started talking about a strike. I remember the strike of 93, i was on my way in from mexifornia on I-40 in Arkansas. I don't remember the exact date but i was running a day or 2 late of when the strike actually started. About 2AM someone dropped a pumpkin on the hood of the truck from an overpass, man what a wakeup call that was. I pulled over to clean the goo off my truck and sent a message over the quallcomm that there was a strike in effect and then told him what happened with the pumpkin. his message back to me was j.b. and schneider weren't honoring the strike so neither were they, i was working for digby truck lines back then, i don't know if they're even in business anymore. i just took the truck, load and all to their terminal in nashville and told them that they may not honor the strike but i sure as hell was. i wasn't about to get myself killed out on the road just because they were going lock in step with j.b. and schnieder. they fired me for it, but oh well, like one of the other posters said. if one does it everyone has to do it and at the same time for it to be effective. IT HAS TO BE ORGANIZED OR IT WON'T WORK!!!