Trucker protest October 3-8, Washington D.C.

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  1. mitmaks

    mitmaks Road Train Member

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    Anyone follow this protest taking place in October.
     
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  3. blairandgretchen

    blairandgretchen Road Train Member

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    Might be off.

    Agree with many points.

    The difference I'll make?

    Probably zero.
     
  4. Old_n_gray

    Old_n_gray Road Train Member

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    What are we protesting?
     
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  5. Jazz1

    Jazz1 Road Train Member

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    Overpaid and underworked
    The difference between a puppy and a truck driver is the puppy quits whining after 6 months
     
  6. x1Heavy

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    The same protests 50 years ago, every year, the same thing we do every year... (*To paraphrase Pinky and the Brain cartoon characters... narf...)

    If you really want changes, at a law or even a structural change to the Nation, you have to do it at the House and then the Senate and forward to a President who signs into law these changes you want.

    Otherwise protesting is noise and annoying. These days I suspect there is some who are rich enough to send a few busloads of anarchists to your protest to turn DC into a battlefield.
     
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  7. bzinger

    bzinger Road Train Member

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    Protesting what ? ..can't sit at a dock all day and then drive all night lol.
    I don't miss those days !
     
  8. 201

    201 Road Train Member

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    ( crickets chirping)
     
  9. haz-matguru

    haz-matguru Road Train Member

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    Let's see here what does protesting solve? That's right absolutely nothing. So you mean to tell me that some o/o's are going to take time off. Spend money on rooms and what ever else in DC. To get nothing accomplished sounds completely stupid to me.

    Keep up the protesting and you will see more and more foreign drivers over here working for cheap. I do agree with some complaints of others. But protesting won't solve anything.
     
  10. Canned Spam

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    Only way I think a protest would work if it was like no protest before, talking millions of truck drivers completely shutting things down where they have no choice but to notice. They might not get anything they were asking for, but attention would come for sure

    Too bad most truck drivers have been brainwashed into thinking unions are evil
     
  11. Oscar the KW

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    I don't think there's going to be enough drivers that go to Washington to even really be noticed.

    Protests rarely ever accomplish anything. Anymore protesters are looked at as nothing more than hood rats.
     
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