A Strike that will work OR that will get real Attention

I had torn that page out but since O&S fired me in Dec and no one wants to hire old(er) drivers I had to glue it back in, as New Rising Fenix (the only company to hire me after looking for 6 months finally gave me a job)

I know we have to stand together but as the old saying goes "We can either stand together or sink together" came from somewhere and it's been proved before!

But, as I've already said,. it's the fear of loosing pay that scares everyone and loss of a job or truck even worse. But you said it and I said it earlier, They can only fire so many before they don't have the trucks hauling freight but holding down asphalt in their yards! It's in their benefit to follow along in "Nothing In Nothing Out" IF they are making money! It's a no brainer and even if a company has a dedicated run there, it behooves them to maybe have a breakdown or two. It's not as much of a loss as totally parking! I bet the shippers and cons might see the reasoning behind a strike and agree.

In the end, a strike that has vision and planning which produces results without loosing money for the people who move America and brings the voice back to those same people instead of the desk drivers is what we strive for! To many other people are putting their fingers in places where they have no need to be putting them, (Joan Claybrook and CRASH, MADD) The many companies taking to much of our hard earned money (big fuel, brokers, trucking companies and a few others) and it's time WE, THE DRIVERS got control back of whats wrong with America and our profession!

 

Re; DonPissedOff, I've seen you over there on the JB post and wonder if you've having any luck sitting on their curb? Ah, a hint, turn off the caps lock as it's like yelling but it is hard to read when you have to wear bifocals! There is a nifty little program out there that will turn caps lock off if you Google 'caps lock lock out program' you can even turn it off in the registry! That is if you trust yourself to screw with something that deep in the programming!

It is a good idea, I know it'll work and as some one earlier said Washington DC should be the first town to hit (HINT: diamond shaped on VA and MD border! LOL) then just go from there. I would have said Ohio next to get rid or that ridiculous 55/65 but from what I hear that's no longer a problem. I won't believe it till I see it and NO a pic won't prove anything to me with photo shop now! LOL.

Now those 3 states on the west coast still do that stupid 55/65 so pick one like CA! Or start at the top WA and go down hill from there. With CA as broke as they are maybe the Govenator will get a hint before we were to leave OR and make the change! I never could figure out why we're doing 55 in the freaking desert and on Fridays (off to the gambling halls traffic, everyone's in a hurry to throw away their money traffic err race) going north on I-15. Heck, 75 is too darn slow! But, a 100 mile circle around a Capital city would work and let King Obama try to order us back to work! By the time he could "order" us back to work the damage is done as JIT cargo is now late and shelves will start to go bare! Besides who's afraid of King Obama? I'm not as he's NOT MY PRESIDENT until he proves it with that birth certificate! I live in Missouri so SHOW ME! And I still won't go into the strike area as I'm a private citizen and if I don't want to, screw him I ain't going! And no, the National Guard can't handle that job as they aren't trained, set up for or have the equipment for that kind of mission, and no Obama can't force a company to turn over their trucks to the guard unless it was a NATIONAL emergency! The governor of the effected state possibly could but with most of the guard units over seas in the Middle East right now it won't fly and there is still the call up time to implementation so we still win as we have made our point. Now CA might be able to get the guard up faster as they will know that they would come after Oregon but as I said the guard isn't set up for what we do everyday!

Now, I might be able to work phones or even get out there with MY big mouth as I'm almost on the verge of loosing my CDL due to medical problems, as fighting cancer last summer and now some more problems I just might be able to actually go out with a bang! But that's where a kitty or donations set up with a reputable company would come in but looking at the jars sitting on the fuel desks looking for donations, hoping for enough money to carry the "mouth pieces" over till the end of this parade we could be starting not to mention some kind of advertising (costs money). They will need to put 100% of their time in on this to make it work and no more of this stupid CB "Hey, lets have a strike next week" bull crap that has been going on and go for the whole shooting match!

Once the momentum has started this kind of snowball would be hard to stop, but you HAVE to have more than 1 person with a crapy arsed web page working 10 hours a day doing the same thing that old Joan Clayborn is doing with CRASH! And for you newbie's Joan was Billy Carters head of the FHWA! This broad failed in her job telling Billy to do the 55 speed limit and she is a constant pain in trucking's neck who is now pushing this stupid OBRD (on board recording devices) that will more than likely put a lot of O/O out of business, and take a ton of cash out of YOUR pockets if you forget to push the button before you do anything in that truck! This woman and organization needs to be stopped as nothing out of that office of CRASH has done anything to benefit trucking except to hinder us! But because they have the money they can do what they do! We have to rely on our circle for the money thus donations! I, and I know the rest of you don't work for free and I KNOW I can't! It's up to all of us to talk this out at the dinner counters at the truck stops and CB (yeah right on the CB! Who uses it for anything else but to rag and complain or threaten each other on). Just copy and print the first post of this thread and pass it out with this URL at the bottom so those who are literate can access and post what they are hearing and see if it'll roll with the majority even the biggies (JB, Swift, Schneider ect)


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First this thread might get sent to the strike forum!
The above that Jabber says has been done.
Won't work!
It's TEMPORARY!
Just haul the drivers in the lead trucks off to jail and throw a fireman or a tow truck on the thing and road is unblocked and the next group of drivers in line sees the first go to jail and traffic flows! The only ones to benifit is the drive by news media as they get a few sound bites and video to take up air time and viewers and thats it!

Drivers do NOT want to go to jail and I do not want to see them go as it will cost THEM money for bail, wrecker, court, fines and who will help him pay all of this? Not truck drivers as they can't feed their families as it is! It defeats the whole idea of the nothing in nothing out strike, such as that easy to figure out idea of keep moving keep making money!

The nothing in nothing out benefits strike, everyone even the stupid, such as owners and companies "after that buck" That is why strikes don't work because of the money grubbers! Also they aren't going to fire every driver that refuses to haul to those areas as it'll cost them almost as much in "orientation and training fees" as they would have made on just a few loads! it's NOT the money but getting rules changed that will benefit these BFI companies also!

Besides I'd take it as an honor if BFI fired me because they were...an....ahhh.... BOTTOM FEEDER INCORPORATED! So frickin stupid that even their college educated can't see the simplicity of the idea! They still make money but we're just shutting off a certain area as Bufford T Justice says "as an attention getter!" move! But what do I know I'm just one of the stupid drivers not a CEO, owner or college kid! I actually lived in the world of trucking not behind a desk thinking of ways to screw my drivers to line my pockets!

The added benefit of this is when area one figures that it's best to do as we request and things are fixed we turn our sights on area 2! How long before plan 2 is implemented do you think the politicians in area 2 will fall all over them selves to rectify the problem we bring to their attention? They could not stand the idea that nothing comes into a 100 mile area and have to put up with people cscreaming for their food and toilet paper because their leaders pass stupid rules that all of a sudden affect them! The whole idea of the nothing in nothing out strike. You get MORE people mad at the main players than just a stupid traffic jam! That stuff worked back in 1975 and once or twice which just stopped traffic but this will work if you get those morons in mega fleet to jump on! You just have to rattle their self inflkated heads a little to get them to open those eyes!

Next I'll announce I'm running for President on the new party ticket! The "Easy way to fix stupid party" ! ROFLMAO! Naah I have always questioned the sanity of someone wanting to run a country as POTUS! Heck, Odumba is already turning grey and he hasn't even made it to two years!

Now all of this is IMHO!