OOIDA fighting for the wrong reasons

Just another Big Business with
their hand in your pocket...

 

If not OOIDA then who? They are the last man standing for individual truckers in a legislative era when decisions at the state/national level are made with little or no input from the voters. Unless you buy influence, which is exactly what I am doing when I give my dues and contributions to OOIDA, you are going to get nowhere.
If you think an email, phone call or letter from an individual constituent is the way votes are changed in the legislature, you are a bit naive. But when an OOIDA lawyer or paid lobbyist has lunch with a Congressional aide and he mentions a membership of X thousand in that Congressman's district, it has a larger impact.
I don't agree with all of OOIDA positions or tactics. But they are in alignment with enough of my philosophies to merit my membership and support.

 

Maybe, but buying off political favor doesn't come cheap anymore

 

That's what I'm saying.

Now brainstorm some causes that help the independent men and businesses as well as the company man. That way us company guys join in. Then they'll be able to afford that lunch.

 

I was your so called super trucker with my long nose Pete with my 650hp big kitty and ###### proud of it.
Jealous posts like yours make me want to puke.
Those issues ARE worth fighting for. No one should be able to tell me what I have to put in or on MY truck.
As for the sitting, I was always compensated.
Now that I'm back in a company truck, I get paid after the first hour. Everytime.

 

No you have not because you already gave up.
If you was doing your part you'd still be doing it and the words I have done my part would never be heard. It would be I am still voicing against over regulation.

 

I'll run the Elogs because I don't want to work that much anyways but I'll pay the fines for years to come before my truck is turned down.

 

And if they do manage to force me to turn it down I'll just change tire sizes. Just read a report from a truck manufacturersaying that a tire size change from 295/r60 22.5 to 315/r80 22.5 will turn the 68mph limited truck to a 80.5mph truck.