Trucker Strike - *NEW* 4/12/19 ???

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  1. Grumppy

    Grumppy Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Now lets see. There are 3.5 million truckers in the US & 26,000 of them want to strike.
    3,500,000 - 26,000 = 3,474,000 that wont be participating.

    Yeah, that'll show'em.
     
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  3. Chinatown

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    What's the plan, after retirement? Any fun stuff in the works?
     
  4. buddyd157

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    not sure just yet..

    i renewed my freshwater fishing license, that was free due to my age, and it also means i now don't need to buy a salt water license!!

    i think that all those annoying things that need to be done around the house, can finally get tackled, as i have no excuse that i gotta wait till the weekend, cuz i have to work during the week.

    other than that, NO traveling, i'm too pooped out to even drive to the mailbox, across the street from my house.
     
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  5. drvrtech77

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    This is by The black smoke matters group... And I can tell you personally of dealing with them on social media directly they are nothing short of a bunch of idiots... They've done nothing buy cuss people out on social media who are against them or about the way they are going about it with the slow rolled across the country... The head person of the group just got her contract Terminated by landstar because she decided to video tape her stupidity... By blocking 3 lanes of traffic on an inner state With her tractor trailer..
     
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  6. buddyd157

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    although i do not follow ANYONE on fartbook, i'd say, this couldn't have happened to a nicer person...

    i hope she gets black balled by her now former employer.
     
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  7. D.Tibbitt

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    The thing about animals like cattle is i think they have an intuition of their purpose on this earth and jsut accept it , where as we as people think we are better than cattle even know our lives are basically the same, ive always thought animals could potentially be smarter than humans , i guess we will never know until they learn how to talk
     
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  8. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    And out of that 26,000 how many will actually show up? Id guess less than 10 percent , nobody has time for that nonsense
     
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  9. greek620

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    With work being slow and low rates I wouldn't be surprised more show up. You only need 5-6 drivers to close a highway.
     
  10. Grumppy

    Grumppy Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    But 5 or 6 people closing one road aint gonna get the point across. Its gonna take 5 or 6 million to get attention. And we're always gonna be about 5,988,000 people short.

    Look, I appreciate the efforts & the idea, but there will NEVER be enough drivers to strike to affect the industry. Five or six drivers or in this case 26,000 drivers, wont affect not even one mfg, shipper or receiver. The industry wont miss one red cent because these 26,000 drivers block a hwy somewhere. Within an hour, it'll all be over with & no one in the industry will ever experience an issue.

    Now, after all that, FMCSA will experience even less of an impact.
     
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  11. OldeSkool

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    If I happen to be parked up that day, it's because I'm either broke down or just didn't feel like working. Just wanted to make sure nobody thought I was part of the strike lol
     
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