Strike Won't Work.. Unless.

Actually the only way a strike would work is to get the BIG GUYS involved. Y'all know who they are; Schnider, JB, Swift, Western Express, Prime, CR England, etc...

 

You need to do more reading, some of those big guys are with us, in fact they have started today and will be parked until Monday night

 

According to the report 86,000 trucks

 

can you provide a link to this report pete???

i am very interested in this

 

Here is the article:

March 29, 30, 31 are the dates that have been set by 4 of the largest trucking companies in the industry, J.B. Hunt, Challenger, Schneider National, and Werner trucking, That's about 70,000 trucks total right there, Trucker to Trucker.com called OOIDA and they have confirmed these dates also for these 4 companies


I W W Union called me tonight and stated that they are indeed supporting the April shutdown, they have committed 16,000 trucks will shut down to show support for our Message to Washington D.C. Now if you figure that each truck runs 500 miles a day & gets 6 miles to the gallon, that's 83.33 gallons of fuel per truck. now figure that at say $3.80 a gallon & that's low that comes out to $316.65 worth of fuel not bought that day per truck x 16,000 trucks = $5,066,400.00, and that figure is just that 1 union , that does not include the owner/operators that are shutting down for April 1st, 2008

And here is the link to the blog where Dan Little posted it:
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message526056/pg1

 

Sorry for the delay, I was taking a bubble bath and enjoying some of the finer things in life

 

Fuel costs are too high and the surcharges can't catch up fast enough. This is a good time for a strike with all the political banter going on.

If we do this right we can make positive changes.

Roads and gas stations need to be shut down and people warned of the strike.

Park'em and bring the grill (I'll bring the food)

 

Thats right drivers united you'll never be divided

 

Looking at history, attempts to centralize and control an attempt to control the market usually fail, which is fortunate, as successful attempts seem to end up making things worse.
The Great Depression appears to be a fine example, where the market would have corrected within a year or so, large-scale meddling drew it out and made it worse.
Looks like we have something similar happening now on a more widespread economic basis.

Besides, the folks who would suffer first, and most, will be the rank and file Americans, and our image isn't doing all that well lately.