Comments on: No Joke: Truckers to ‘Shut Down’ April 1

By: Movinyou

Movinyou — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:52:12 +0000

The fuel prices are hitting everyone around the world. Not only America. With Mobil-exxon earning over $40 billion in profit for the last financial year,they are earing about $78,027 a minute, that is $1300 a second. How long does it take you to earn $1300. Parking up your truck is a graet idea, but why don’t we expand on it. Where do the oil companies earn their money from? They earn it from the fuel stations we all buy from, weather they be truck stops, petrol stations, fuel stops, anywhere you can buy fuel from. Parking our trucks is not hurting the oil companies, only ourselves. Why not park them at the service stations. I recond there are enough trucks in this world to park at every fuel station for a major hurt on the oil companies. Park your trucks up at night from 6pm to 6am every night at every fuel station for 7 nights. No one can buy fuel, the comanies wont earn any profits, and the tucks can still earn a living during the day. A rolling strike. Shut all fuel stations down for 12 hours a day for 7 days. See if that would have an effect. This would have to be a world wide thing so it would have maximum impact. Have a good think on it everyone. Set a date so everyone in the world will do it at the same time. Keep the rubber on the road and stay safe.

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Are Owner-Operators Rearranging Deck Chairs? | Bob McCarty Writes — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:34:38 +0000

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By: Owner-Operators Forming New Organization

Owner-Operators Forming New Organization — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:47:19 +0000

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By: Documentary Looks Into Souls of American Truckers

Documentary Looks Into Souls of American Truckers — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:19:02 +0000

[...] Approximately 160,000 independent owner-operators and professional truck drivers are extremely interested and they’ve been trying to get the nation’s attention in recent weeks. On April 1, a large number of them shut down their rigs to protest — among other things — skyrocketing fuel costs and demand government intervention to rescue the independent trucker. I’ve written three posts on the subject during the last 10 days: No Joke: Truckers to ‘Shut Down’ April 1 [...]

By: Truck Shutdown Deemed ‘100 percent successful’

Truck Shutdown Deemed ‘100 percent successful’ — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:05:19 +0000

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By: starhauler

starhauler — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:31:56 +0000

White House Comment line is 202-456-1111
MAKE THE CALL!! REAL PEOPLE ANSWERING !! LEAVE A COMMENT FOR THE PRESIDENT…

Perhaps the President might get a bit of the boycott as well boycott hauling cattle from his ranch!

By: Spoiled Rotten

Spoiled Rotten — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:19:20 +0000

I have personally talked to a Swift company driver and he confirmed that his company only pays $1.67 a gallon for fuel per a 6-7 year contract they signed with the supplier (i’m not sure if it’s the truck stops or a larger supplier) and then the company charges the Owner Operators leased onto them about $3.30 a gallon!!! Savings for the Owner operator and a HUGE profit for Swift!! I have heard that a few of the larger companies did that, thus the reason for being able to haul CHEAP FREIGHT and that in turn brings the rates down (along with the junky mexican trucks hauling it cheap)!!!!!!! That is total B.S. if you ask me!! Please, everyone…… stop hauling Cheap freight!!

I will be participating in the 45 mph “dance” and I don’t care how many “4-wheelers” it pisses off!! Let’s stick together and do this!!

SLOW DOWN AMERICA – make em think!!

It would help too if the consumers would stop buying products from all the stores for a few days too!! We AMERICANS have to stick together!!!

By: Dennis w Hampton

Dennis w Hampton — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:44:11 +0000

On our way back from Tucson Arizona I was paying $4.39 a gal to $3.99 a gal. for diesel for my truck. I stopped at a few truck stops on the way home and I talked to a few truck drives on the diesel prices. In talking to some of the truck drivers that are company drivers I was told that there company was only paying $1.67 a gal due to a deal that the companys made with the truck stops. Is this true and how can they do this if it is? If so then who is making all the money? The middle class people are paying for every thing that is trucked and those prices keep going up.
The way we look at this is what if the gas prices go down that in turn would bring everything down and there lies some of the solution to alot of our problems. Hopefully our economy will then start to climb and there would be more money to stimulate the economy, thus helping the middle class which are becoming poorer and poorer week after week.
If the trucker would stop for 3 days the shelves would be empty in the grocery stores so hear this people The trucker are doing it for one day we hope and pray this will get though to people Thank you Truckers for doing your part and doing something.

By: How Will the Trucking Shutdown Impact You?

How Will the Trucking Shutdown Impact You? — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:53:34 +0000

[...] a post three days ago, I reported on the threatened April 1 shutdown by independent truckers. Today, I [...]

By: Joann H

Joann H — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:45:28 +0000

Well said Carrie! You never really know what another job is like until you’ve actually done it, but I think there’s probably more misconceptions about driving truck than almost any other profession out there.

Sure, drivers may look a little rough around the edges, but I think most of us still remember when they were the knights of the road. Before cell phones, if you broke down, you prayed for a truck to come by and give you a hand. And they would.

Yeah, you have to share the road with them. Just like living in a house with someone, you’re going to get annoyed at each other. But these guys are PROFESSIONAL drivers. It’s what they DO, some of them for 60 – 70 hours a week. They can handle a massive piece of equipment and get it to dance. Ever see a truck parallel park? From a blind side so they don’t even have their mirrors to help them? Think someone that drives a car could pull that off? And I have been riding in my husband’s truck when some of these cars pull stunts that could get them AND us killed. Literally. The sick part is often it’s to dash in front of a truck, cut it off, then slow down, just so they can get where they’re going a few seconds faster. Since when is getting anywhere a few seconds faster worth risking lives?

Now these guys (and gals) are in trouble. And if we don’t get behind them, we’re only hurting ourselves. More truckers going out of business is going to keep tearing at an economy that’s going down the toilet as it is.