Parting ways with OOIDA

You don't ever give a few dollars to people in the most humbling of tasks, to make them feel better, not yourself?

The Bible tells us that Christ said "What you have done to the least among you, so you have also done to me."

I could be wrong, but you'd probably be happier if you had gravy topped food in your life, and could glean a little nookie.

 

Ooida is against the new proposed law creating an apprenticeship for 18 yos to drive interstate.

It would make roads even less safer.

 

Less safe huh? So ooida says am 18 year old isn't mature enough to drive a truck, but they are mature enough to be stuck in a fox hole. That's ridiculous. As long as our society says an 18 year old can join or be drafted into the military then they should be able to do everything else.

Or how about in many states 18 year olds are perfectly legal and safe driving trucks, but crossing some line on the map is going to automatically make them unsafe? Where is the logic in that?

 

Is that tour thought as well, or just ooida?

 

I use Ooida almost exclusively.... well not them, but if you read the truth in advertising disclosures at the bottom of the page it lists the service provider they use. I just go to that company direct. Never sent 1 red cent to Grain Valley and I don't want a hat or a sticker.

 

Your snarky and ignorant comment about our military aside, What the hell does where they fight have to do with it? It's a simple matter of if they are old enough to be trained for combat they are old enough to be trained to drive a truck.

 

Ok ill try to catch up, but as you know there are dozens of guys on this forum who will utter those same words with a straight face and actually mean it

 

One tends to forget that the late Jim Johnston was a major proponent of deregulation, his flawed logic dictated that if there were no barriers to getting your own authority, no driver would have to lease to a carrier for the rights, therefore keeping all of the pie for himself. Clearly he had no understanding of how the free market really works.
Now we have the worst of both worlds, a heavily regulated industry on the operational side with a total free for all on the economic side. Prior to 1980, both sides of the equation were regulated.
OOIDA was started as an insurance business, which is it's core activity now, with some of it's profits dedicated to paying for lobbying various government entities for/against legislation OOIDA thinks are at it's members interests. They are wide of the mark some of the time, including the whole ELD debacle, clearly lost that battle, and a lot of credibility with it. A wiser strategic move would have been to oppose the HOS changes started in 2003.
It is easy for representatives in Congress or elsewhere to ignore an organization of only 160,000 members.