Strike is moving like wildfire!!!!!!!

great quote very appropriate

 

My truck is parked as well as the 3 other o/o's that I work with and even the two company trucks that will be back tuesday morning are not going back out. So count this post as 6 trucks!!!!!

 

This is how they do it in Italy........


Italy Struggles Under Truck Strike





By IAN FISHER and ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
Published: December 13, 2007
ROME ' Gasoline became nearly impossible to find and supermarket shelves grew barer on Wednesday, the third day of a nationwide strike of heavy trucks in Italy that threatens deep paralysis by its planned end on Friday.


The strike, called amid pre-Christmas bustle, marked yet another crisis for the weak government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi. With highways blocked, produce rotting and thousands of workers in companies like Fiat laid off, his aides met through the day ' without immediate success ' to end a strike called just two weeks after another crippling one of taxi drivers in Rome.


Union officials said they would decide overnight whether to accept a 12-point plan offered by the government to continue with the strike, called for more help against high gas prices and competition from foreign truckers.
"The government's document contains something of an opening, but in terms of principles," said Maurizio Longo, head of one striking union. He said they are looking rather for a "concrete act."


While strikes are common in Italy, and have become more so as Mr. Prodi has attempted to trim the nation's budget, they have usually been short and symbolic. The truck drivers aimed for maximum impact, budging little over three days ' literally as thousands of trucks blocked main arteries ' with two more days possible. By Wednesday night, the end of the strike's third day, the problems began to compound.
The few gas stations open in Rome were flooded with long lines of cars and scooters, with waits of several hours reported in places. Gas was rationed in the city-state of the Vatican, with workers there permitted to buy no more than 20 euros worth.
"It seems to me a way of striking that is especially violent," said Barbara Rossi, 46, a worker in a legal office in Rome, who had waited for one hour to fill her scooter's empty tank.


By evening, the lack of gas had closed down ferry services and one commuter bus line, as providers of a range of vital services from air transport to ambulances to trucks delivering school lunches began to worry about fuel supplies. Supermarkets around the nation lacked fresh produce (though smaller shops supplied by small trucks remained well stocked) and gaps began showing in high-turnover items like pasta, salt and flour.
Trash pickups had stopped in the southern region of Campagna, which has trouble managing its garbage even without a transport strike.
In the northern city of Milan, Antonia Carapacchi, owner of Citta del Sole, an upscale toy store, registered "a distinct drop in sales and clients" in the last two days, the result, he speculated, of parents choosing to use increasingly sparse gasoline on more pressing needs. Unlike clothes or books, he said, toys have only one important season, Christmas, the moment the unions decided to strike.


"They're going to plunge the entire industry into crisis," he predicted gloomily.
Francesco Rutelli, a deputy prime minister, echoed the worry. "It is clear that this is a very strong blow the country's economy and is a very delicate thing on the eve of Christmas," he told reporters in Rome.
In an especially unsettled moment, the strike seemed tied deeply to the nation's larger political situation. Critics of Mr. Prodi said the strike reinforced the perception that his government lacked muscle. On Tuesday night, he ordered truckers back to work, but they did not do so.
"They didn't think that we'd take such a tough position, and neither did the media until now, when we've uncovered the delicate nerve of the transportation situation of the country," said Enrico Bossa, a spokesman for one of the unions, who said the government had been given ample opportunity to head off the strike.


But Mr. Prodi's supporters said the strike was part of a calculated effort to bring down Mr. Prodi's government. One of the strike's leaders, newspapers pointed out, is Paolo Ugge, an official in the government of Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister who has been working for Mr. Prodi's government to collapse. He is also a member of Mr. Berlusconi's political party.
"I'm angry because this is politics against the government," said a woman named Ida, 61, who had waited in Rome for two hours for a tank of gas and did not want to be fully identified talking about politics. "It's chaos."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/world/europe/13strike.html?ref=world

 

in the strike in the late seventies on i 70 in pa the truck in front of us got the top of the cab tore off and a man and woman killed by the people of the strike as they dropped a steel beam off of a overpass that was swinging by cables. i have never supported any kind off strike or shutdown because of this. all these unorganized acts is just like opening a hunting season.every moron and his brother is out trying to get the people that cannot shutdown. or that are trying to get home.the people look down on us bad enough now.if you want to do something start calling the whitehouse and all of the people running this country in the ground call them in masses from daylight to dark every man women and child, ring there phones off of the hook untill somebody hears what you have to say.to me this would be better than the other plan. good day

 

It,the truck strick is starting here in colorado,it was on the news this morning,they are shut down at the tomahawk truck stop in fountain co,I hope this works to get some attention to the problem,high fuel costs,you go guys and gals,I'm with you.

 

I sure do hope this spreads. Inflation and oil company greed have gone too far. I don't know what they think they're doing. Do they think that putting independents out of business(kinda like small farmers) and replacing them with NAFTA drivers and allowing the big corporate truck companies to take over is good? Actually, that is probably their diabolical plan

 

First, let me say, I am not a driver. That being said, I would support a trucker strike knowing full well what that would mean. I know a strike would cause prices to soar throughout the nation, gas stations would run out in a few days, and panic would run rampant throughout the nation, and I am still willing to support a strike.

I believe that the majority of the people DO NOT understand that “EVERY ITEM” they purchase is transported by truck at one time or another.

YOU, the truckers, more so than any other group, have the ability to make a change in the way the economy of this great nation is headed. YOU, the truckers have more power than the US Government in bringing about a change in the rising cost of living.

To stop the rising cost of fuel, we must stop the profit mongers. I am talking about the commodities brokers. They are the ones that drive the price of oil. The oil companies are just reaping the profits of the soaring oil price. The only way to bring down the price of oil is to stop buying fuel. And the only way to stop EVERYONE from buying fuel is to stop delivering it.

Again, I say it’s the truckers that can make that happen. And I’m not talking to just the tanker drivers. There are always drivers that will step in and take over the driving. It will take the majority, if not all the truckers to get together.

I have been reading trucker blogs for quite some time now, and to those who say they will not support a strike because they are one flat tire away from bankruptcy, I say to you, if you are that close to losing it all, you have already lost it’s, only a matter of time. You would do better to park it and sell it. The only way you are going to make it is if the prices come down. And the only way for that to happen is the get the attention of the people of this nation.

There needs to be a concerted effort by the truckers to organize. I would again suggest that a date be set in the future, i.e., 4 July 2008, (we, the people, need our independence back), which would give everyone a chance to stock up on the necessities. On that date, every driver park your rig and take a vacation. Not just a weekend, but a much needed 2 or 3 week vacation with friends and families. If you can park it where it can be seen without breaking the law, put a banner on it explaining why this is happening. When there is no profit to be made because of a glut of oil, the price WILL come down.

Guy Stewart

 

WELL SAID!
See Truckers, the General public does support you!

 

Are you going to park your bike with a banner on it? If so you had better have it insured.It will become a target just as the trucks will.