Dan Little, the Carrollton, Mo.-based trucker generally credited with organizing the nationwide shutdown of independent owner-operators April 1, called me yesterday to let me know he’s at it again, this time working with a small cadre of truckers from around the country to launch a new truck drivers organization, tentatively called Owner-Operators United. The owner [...]
Owner-Operators Forming New Organization
April 10th, 2008 · No Comments
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No Joke: Truckers to ‘Shut Down’ April 1
March 28th, 2008 · 16 Comments
One Iowa newspaper reporter describes it as “a small, online grassroots effort (that) now appears to have the potential for something bigger.” That “something bigger” is a threatened nationwide shutdown by independent truck drivers — possibly hundreds of thousands of them — April 1. Though set to take place on April Fools Day, the effort [...]
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