Re: Strike - Gov. forcing truckers to drive at gun point???

I just became member too. When I saw the post about " making us drive at gun point" I just set here and shook my head. Yea Right! This is the best post I've seen yet. Your right, WE have the upper hand and WE can put a stop to this! But WE is the key word. But all WE have to do is stop or shut down the TANKERS! If the gas & fuel don't move, nether does anyone else! And we can always count on the American Public to PANIC!!!! Trucks, cars, SUV's, don't have gas & fuel to move = NO food, NO Way to WORK, NO travel ( summer is right around the corner ) then the Panic starts. If they can't move it, they can't sell it! It will take at least a 3 week shut down to make it happen. It will hurt, but, it will work. Thanks again for your post.

 

I'm not a driver, but I would support a trucker shut down.
I think ALL drivers should get together, pick a date sometime in the future, say in 3 months so you can stock up, and on that date, park your trucks. If you have a load, deliver it, you don't want to go to jail, and "they" might resort to that if you don't make you last delivery. Then park it.

If drivers want to stop paying out the nose for fuel and make a decent living, they need to get together and do something about it.

Over 65% of all goods travel over the road.

If all drivers parked their rigs, it wouldn’t take long before the nation demanded that something be done. It might take a couple of weeks, but IT WOULD HAPPEN.

The government would be forced to do something. They wouldn’t and couldn’t afford to let the nation come to a stand still, which would happen if there were no trucks on the road.

The oil companies would be forced to do something. They wouldn’t be selling thousands of gallons of fuel a day. The surplus would become overwhelming. THE COST OF DIESEL WOULD COME DOWN.

The fuel companies make BILLIONS OF DOLLARS PROFIT every quarter. They are SHIPPING MILLIONS OF GALLONS of fuel to foreign countries because the profit margin is higher.

Get together, pick a date, and park it.

 

You guys are right, they can not and will not force us to drive, we need to park them until we are heard 1day or one month its all the same if we would not be making a profit anyway, I vote for April 1, 2008 - lets do this toguether.

We need to change not only fuel prices but also load rates, it is not right for brokers to make more money than us on a load when we are doing all the work and paying for the expenses and all a broker does is fax you a piece of paper, fuel need price needs to come down and freight brokers need to be regulated.

 

They were saying on the local new a few min. ago at a local truck stop that the truckers was going to shut down tommorrow 4/01/08. we will see if it happen's or not. if it does i will park my rig. We need to get the gen. public in volved in this too.

 

All public people I spoke with today actually want to see us drivers go on strike, Its unreal, most say its about time. They are even asking about it on their own.

 

The commies are not in office(yet)so I don't think we'll see any gun-induced trucking in the near future. That said,shutting down may indeed do alot of those things to our respective companies,shippers and receivers. They are not the problem,nor do they hold the answer. Worldwide demand has soared with China and India coming into industrial boom times not so different than ours in the middle of the last century. This, combined with enviro-nazi driven laws in our own country that have prevented us from drilling or even building one new refinery in the last 30 years,leaves the supply end of the mix coming up short.
The answer is getting the senators and congressmen that bow the knee to these moose-kisser lobbyists replaced with someone who actually has the country's best interests at heart.
Even a "successful" shutdown would do little more than cut the tail off of this oil-supply snake that has been growing for 30 years. Right now China and Russia and others ARE DRILLING in the Gulf of Mexico,off the Califonia coast and other areas while our oil companies are prevented from any of that activity by the nut-job environmental laws that have been passed in this country.
Some villify and blame "big oil" for this because they are "greedy for too much profit". Exxon makes about 8 cents a gallon profit. Our oh-so-helpful government (who does no exploration or product delivery or anything else to help the cause) takes upwards of 50 cents from every gallon.
This problem has been a long time coming, and the correction of it will too, take a long time. I don't think "holding our breath" and acting like a bunch of pissy-pants crybabies is going to do much good.
Serious political lobbying and sensible energy policies are the only way out. Thanks, OST

 

I think this assessment is pretty much spot on, only thing i would add is that there isn't the shortage that everyone is talking about. Demand is high yes, but there's still plenty of oil. The traders and speculators are the ones who getting the fattest off this deal. they're buying up the oil, warehousing it thus creating a false shortage which is driving up prices even higher.

 

Sorry, but you sound more like a politician than a trucker. We have more of a chance dealing with the big Oil Companies than trying to beat the "Tree Huggers" & "Moose Lovers"! Senators and congressmen don't pay for their Gas or Fuel, WE DO! They don't care what WE have to pay for their gas & fuel. If they did they would drop the state by state road tax on gas and fuel, or, let us run off road fuel. Not gonna happen! And I don't think we are "pissy-pants" because we want to do something about this ourselves! WE do have the power. I don't think the public nor government or some of us, know the power we really have. But it will take more than 1 day to do anything. Big Oil will just sit back and laugh. Exxon made more than 400 BILLION, Yes BILLION in profit last year. And that is just STUPID!