OOIDA fighting for the wrong reasons

Voluntarily, I hope. Thank you for your service. I've got 20 plus "age-years" on you, but you've caught up with me in miles.

 

Oh yeah, lol! I've been OTR since I started. I did it because I couldn't find a job but I like being a trucker, I truly do.


By the way......this is post 3,000!!!!!

 

Some companies just try to see how far they can push the driver. I take a little but not much. Just like when I worked construction had a boss tell me he was going to put on a refer back to the house I just stares at him and said" I'll gladly get on it I was not even looking for a job when I got this one" he was shocked and told me nevermind your not going anywhere.

The way I see it right is right and I stand up for my principles and beliefs. They don't want to respect me and what I do for them then I don't want to be there anyways.

 

OOIDA has probably no fight left in them. Not enough members to fight. They're just a call center in my view.

 

OOIDA is the proverbial teat on a boar hog. Its function seems to be writing letters to the editor and congressmen, then boasting about how they write totally awesome letters to editors and congressmen.

 

Well I just got off the phone with Senator Isakson of Georgia asking him to pull his Amendment 4024 requiring speed limiters on all trucks with in 6 moths of passage of the bill .

I also wrote to my Congressman and called his office asking that he oppose the bill .

By the way if you want to call the man that made the Amendment His # is 202 224 3643 . Just tell the lady that answers that you are calling in opposing the amendment 4024 .

We can get allot more done by taking a couple of minutes to do these things ourselves than will ever get waiting on someone else to do it for us !!!!

 

OOIDA fights for truckers rights not issues you have with sitting all day,you take that up with your company.

 

What rights? All Ive read about them is about lobying for changes. I haven't read anything that shows they've caused change. Maybe they fought for rights for the independent truckers back in the 80's or something but what have they done as of the late 2000s that prove they're in it for ALL truckers and not just guys that subscribe to their services?

I don't know much about the ATA, but I think they're the guys that are shaping the trucking industry.

 

What I am disappointed with is how people think that the ooida is supposed to be an end all when it is about a political issue. What the ooida fails in is not just telling people to get a hold of their representives but explain how the system works and why we need to get it together politically speaking.

We are politically fractured, no other industry is like ours because no other is so effective by politics as ours is. We should be screaming as a group to the states and to Washington, but we are silent.