A Strike that will work OR that will get real Attention

I like it, but we've got 4 days to get everyone on board. It'd be a challenge just to spread the word in time.

 

Glass half full? We have a whole year to set this up. Just think, a year before elections. The timing couldn't be better....

 

Well it sound's good and all in theory but here stand's thy problem. Driver's of big companies won't strike because companies say "if you strike, we will fire you!" in fear of loosing their jobs but what the driver's don't understand is if everyone stood on a strike no one would get fired because the companies would fold up faster than a sheet of paper but these driver's don't understand that and would rather continue kissing ### and taking it as they can get it. What they also don't understand is what "united we stand" stand's for and most don't care. The only thing I have seen come from the previous strike is show who is willing to whine and who is greatful to continue taking it up the ### and leaving us all looking like jack ###' in the public eye because one way or another a truck driver is going to find something to disagree about amongest ourselfs. Now I'm all for a strike and for a change but it's only in theory because very few know how to unite, then there are those who don't care and then the fresh meat that don't know their ### from a hole in the ground.

These companies are just like the IRS. They have everyone scared to not pay tax's other wise if everyone in this country stood up and said we are tired of your #### and you wasting our money on BS when it could be put to better use then we would over throw them and there's nothing they can do about it because they can't put everybody in prison for not paying. For those who do stand up againest it without all, look where it get's them. Trucking=jobless IRS=prison

 

This is one of the best plan's I've heard and the "few" that must stay out and continue, well, they will be hit with it as well and have no choice but to shut down because there won't be any dispatchers to run them. So they don't have much choice. But the biggest question of all, is how to you kick off such a plan and make it effective?

 

The purpose(s) of this strike would be?

 

The purpose is simple. The fed and other outside forces that we all know and hate will have to come to the bargaining table. If they don't, they will lose massive dollars. No entity in that kind of jeopardy would dare not show up. Each company brings a single rep for themselves, and another for the drivers. If anything was stonewalled by the other side, you walk away. If that happened, guaranteed the table would be empty for only a few minutes before they would want to come back. Even Big Bro would come back to the table after a little fuming. we could get the rules changed to something reasonable, without months of finagling and subversive tactics by them. for once, it would be written in plain english, and no way or time to slip in some billion dollar pet project for some mouse in some unknown desert.

Money talks, and at that (this) time of year, it is VERY heavy handed, and makes LOTS of noise.

 

A laudable goal perhaps, but with today's economic times, I don't think that you will get enough company drivers to risk their jobs by going on a strike, and I wonder how many O/Os will join in.

 

I like the idea of a rolling strike; we all have plenty reasons to strike (CA) shippers/receivers. No need to whine here, we know the list of abuses and the ways to avoid most of them or thechniques to force the issue, "My Reefer is running out of fuel", "I'll be back, call the Broker and Let me know what you decide".

I think it will take several years for this to gain enough momentum. I am willing to look at this, because this business is only going to get more difficult. As an Independent I know I can charge less than the large companies. Truckers' would need to know which area to strike, perhaps this could be conveyed either by a mailing list or a website. I would keep the strike or "boycott" limited to a few days, so that the scab companies can't get enough trucks in the area and keep the strike area far enough apart that the large companies can't get the freight. It's bad enought almost getting hit by these drivers parked!

It could be an all out strike or a "no cheap frieght strike". If we can strike in an area, for example, Salt Lake City; we could tell everybody "No trucks move unless you are getting paid $1.94/mile, going out". We could do this for 2~3 days. Hypothetically, all these loads would be covered by CR England, Central, etc., then move the strike to Denver. Not all the trucks would be in the Denver area: No company could defeat this with extra trucks and drivers sitting, waiting for the next strike. We could have a list of cities and randomly change the location and the duration of the strike. What do you think? Do I need another cup of coffee or just roll down the window?

 

I done been thru one strike and it dident work because people that were not involved in trucking just had to stick there noses in where it had no buisness being then you had ### s like JB pumpkin and others that pulled the same freight for 50 cents a mile and shot everything out the door so a strike will never work unless all companies join when i started years ago truckin was truckin and we all stuck together now its a cut throat #### the other dont care attitude thats brought it to where its at today

 

I think the only way were going to get everybody involved is not call it a strike. Instead, maybe we should just call it " An unpaid week off with free beer and nekkid girls.."

I think it would be less work to get everybody to chip in on booze and hire a few out of work strippers to get 'er done. With the economy, the dancers have to be hurting too.

Just a thought. :smt077

My apologies to the lady truckers and AA graduates in advance.