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 [...]
Trucker Discusses Economic Issues on CNN
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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Thoughts About Rearranging Deck Chairs
April 21st, 2008 · No Comments
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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Documentary Looks Into Truckers’ Souls
April 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Recently, I became aware of two groups of Americans who’ve given much thought to the question, “What would happen if, tomorrow, America’s trucking industry shut down?” In reality, all Americans should be interested in the answer.
Approximately 160,000 independent owner-operators and professional truck drivers are extremely interested and they’ve been trying to get the [...]
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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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