High Cost Of Fuel & Effects

This is so elementery. If companies are so concerned about idle time and fuel they should spend the money and buy that thing where you can have electricity without running the truck. I think the gov should make it mandatory. The average truck idles at least 10 hours a day wastefully burning 10 gallons of fuel approx 750,000 trucks aday. How much fuel would that save? Yea I know, therefore saving that astronmical amount of fuel, prices would fall drastically

 

Well i got news for everyone if every driver in america refused to drive for 2 weeks and let the wal-mart shelves go dry, the gas pumps drain, the wharehouses bursting at the seams and so forth when the chaos begins we can make demands fuel price will plummet due to the drop in demand , no more idling laws , no more no truck zones , a resonable h.o.s. Law and we could literally hold america hostage just by parking our rigs but it would only work if we "all" have the gumption to stick together and see it through unfortunateley most people these days are self centered and could care less about the cause n care more abotu the almighty dollar so it will never happen

 

[quote="LOST SOUL";523712]Well i got news for everyone if every driver in america refused to drive for 2 weeks and let the wal-mart shelves go dry, the gas pumps drain, the wharehouses bursting at the seams and so forth when the chaos begins we can make demands fuel price will plummet due to the drop in demand , no more idling laws , no more no truck zones , a resonable h.o.s. Law and we could literally hold america hostage just by parking our rigs but it would only work if we "all" have the gumption to stick together and see it through unfortunateley most people these days are self centered and could care less about the cause n care more abotu the almighty dollar so it will never happen[/quote]

It'll never happen because of the larger companies. They won't shut down their trucks. My dad was part of the 70's shut down, and it's not the almighty dollar that prevents all drivers from doing it, it's the fact that there are so many large companies that would not do it, along with the fact that it is not the brotherhood out there that it use to be. I'd love to see it happen, because it would wake John Q. Public up about how all their tech toys, food, household goods, and everything else they buy actually gets to the store for them to spend their $$$ on. These are the same yutz's that complain about the rolling warehouses on 'their' roads, and pull boneheaded moves around the trucks.