TRUCKERS STRIKE-UNITE

History shows, in other industries (service, agriculture, construction), that the white shirts won't pay more; they'll just say that it's (trucking) a job that Americans won't do. Low pay to one man/woman is high pay to another. Make a million and still be broke. It's not what we earn it's what we save. Earn more? Spend less? Hmmm....

 

Supply and demand. A quarter back, doctor, nurse or trucker is paid in proportion to their skill set. Higher skill sets are more rare thus demand (bid) is higher. Truckers with multiple endorsements (hazmat, tanker, doubles, triples [only one in the area]), owner operators and fleet owners (2+ trucks) have put themselves directly in the money stream. Company drivers with no endorsements have not - yet. Dis a bizniss! Business 101. We must continually build upon our skill set and, since it IS about the money, increase our trucking business acumen. You're right about the lack of knowledge but the knowledge is all around us. Just takes the right attitude, passion and desire to soak it in.

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Good luck with that....... you can't get two drivers to agree on the price of a free cup of coffee

 

You can't get drivers to say NO to cheap freight. What's makes you think you can get them to stop driving? If I don't like the rate, I won't haul the freight. The ones doing the most whining are the same ones hauling $1.5 loads. Just learn to say no.

 

It'll never happen, too many dumb O/Os pulling cheap crap that will lose everything if they shut down for a few days, and too many dumb company drivers that are perfectly happy making peanuts to stay gone for months at a time..

 

Here we go again with another "LET'S STRIKE!!!" that will never EVER!! happen because the wanna be O/O leased to a company working for .90cpm can't afford to shut down and way to many new breed steering wheel holders that have to bad of a MVR to go anywhere else or to job scared to take a chance for the betterment of the entire industry.

 

To much talk of it's never going to happen. Of course it'll never happen with that mentality. Change will not come instantly but we need progress. We have let this industry become a joke. Prices are being offered with NO sense of reasoning. Not only are prices cheap but beyond our cost of operation. I understand that there is a lack of freight available, but that doesn't mean you work for free just to work. Please, I'm begging everyone, take action, even if it's just you. Let them take cheap rates and get weeded out in a couple of years, but those of us who are committed, let's take a stand. From Los Angeles CA, I pledge to strike!

 

A strike would be a wet dream for a hauler who's hauls "cheap Freight". While those of us who have good hauling freight, if we honored a strike, you know "Joe at Jacked your Freight for Cheap" will keep rolling.