Bob McCarty Writes

Six weeks ago, Dan Little spearheaded a nationwide truckers shutdown which took place April 1 as a means of drawing attention to the poor economic plight of independent truckers and trucking companies. Today, the owner of a Carrollton, Mo., cattle-hauling operation finds himself in a new position representing the interests of truckers from across [...]

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Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
The phrase above is often used to describe futile efforts to fix or save something already past the point at which it can be saved. While many of America’s independent truck drivers are fast approaching the point where their deck chairs are about to go overboard, some have already [...]

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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 of [...]

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(SAINT LOUIS) — This morning, this blogger visited two truck stops in the St. Louis area in an effort to follow up on two earlier posts and try to determine firsthand whether many independent owner-operators and professional truck drivers seems to be participating in a shutdown to protest high fuel costs and other factors making [...]

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