I just read a report that trucker's may strike on jan3. I've heard them talk this crap for year's but with diesel price's these day's it might be for real. I know Freightliner in Poplar Bluff has had to rent space to park the repo's cause most guy's are barely breaking even. I guess about 90 truck's in the last month is what I've heard. Owner operator's are going out of business anyway so they might as well shut down. and if the teamster's get behind it, you might want to stock up on some groceries. People are going to find out real quick they don't make the groceries in the storage room.
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Tue, December 11, 2007 - 8:39 PMnow THIS I would LOVE to see! I mean, seriously...I'd be rooting for the truckers, the whole time my spagetti-o's supply is dwindling. I'd still be cheering them on.
Let the so-called 'underclass' start to realize their true power...and let the political upper class learn who really keeps the country running.
Now, if they REALLY wanted to make a buzz, they'd do it starting december 20th.... holy crap that would halt the nation and get people's attention! -
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Tue, December 11, 2007 - 8:54 PMThe last real strike was in the 70's. That got pretty ugly. I was just a kid but I remember the stories of shooting at the scab's and stuff like that. Like I said, if the union companies get behind the deal it only takes 5 day's to paralyze the country. might want to stock up on a little gas too. -
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Tue, December 11, 2007 - 8:59 PMIt's not just the little guy with 1 truck but the companies with 25 or 30 truck's are going under too. By the time they pay a driver, theyre in the hole. Might want to pay attention to what might happen and be prepared just in case. If they are really going to do it, it will be all over the media I'm sure. -
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Tue, December 11, 2007 - 10:30 PMIndeed, it would be prudent to look at one's on hand supplies to ensure everything is fresh and useable. The strike whether or not it happens is as good reason as any.An even more likely event to consider in the near term is the possibility of severe weather with the approach of winter. Here where I live it is not uncommon to lose power during an ice storm for a week or two. Because of that every fall I check out my supplies to be ready for that sort of thing. Fuel, alternate means of heating and lighting as well as food are all thing one should have on hand to do for at least a month or more. -
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Tue, December 11, 2007 - 10:51 PMThat big ice storm that just moved accross the country only missed us by about 200 mile's. -
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Tue, December 11, 2007 - 11:35 PMyea I was meaning to ask how you fared through that nasty ice storm, brent...but being as how you seemed your normal self on here each day I figured your cows are all still alive and thawed out. -
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Tue, December 11, 2007 - 11:40 PMAnd this thread actually has prompted me to re-stock on some 2-week survival preparations, I mean, this trucking thing may very well never happen, or it could, but as Alphonse pointed out, a storm could leave my town in a bad spot overnight and this is a good excuse to check the preparation list. I'm going on a shopping trip tomorrow to stock up on lamp oil, candles, maybe some water storage jugs, and food cans, as well as an extra gas can for the car. I figure, enough to get through 2-3 weeks would float me through even a pretty long storm, and anything that takes the whole infrastructure out longer than that might need consideration of a temporary chance of address anyhow. 2 weeks is plenty of time to assess the situation iether way. -
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Tue, December 11, 2007 - 11:41 PM*I meant temporary 'change' of address...not 'chance'
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Wed, December 12, 2007 - 9:42 AMThat ice storm moved up I-44 but didnt come much further east than that toward's us. We're prepared for one if it does hit. That storm sure was a big momma. On the weather map it stretched from Denver to St. Louis. Left over 600,000 people without power.
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Mon, March 31, 2008 - 7:09 AMSpaghettios???? you just made a shiver go down my back Thousand! EEGADS MAN! Jerky and hard tack are better.
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Wed, December 12, 2007 - 4:02 AMHey Brent...excellent heads up!
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Wed, December 12, 2007 - 11:56 AMtruckerstrike.com has a little information on the strike rumor. -
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Wed, December 12, 2007 - 3:42 PMWhat are they hoping to accomplish by striking? Raising prices of everything for everyone? -
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Wed, December 12, 2007 - 4:30 PMWell, You can't ship freight for free. Freight price's either have to go up or diesel need's to come down about 2.00 a gallon. But yeah, everything you buy off a shelf in the store is probably going to go up. Would you spend day's away from your home and family to barely break even? It's not the trucker's fault, they're going out of business. Most big truck's average 41/2 to 51/2 mile's to the gallon loaded. A load pay's 1.50 a mile (maybe) and diesel is 3.69 a gallon. And if you pay a driver .30 per mile, how much is left? Then there's truck maintence that's mighty costly. Insurance, road tax , registration for 48 states. The problem boil's back to oil companies or maybe even enviromentalist group's that block construction of refineries or drilling for oil. Who really know's for sure. The trucker's arent just trying to drive up prices for us. They're just trying to make a living like the rest of us. -
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Wed, December 12, 2007 - 4:38 PMI support the truckers, even though I know it's going to suck for consumers like myself. they're not creating the problem, they're just taking a stand and pointing out a problem that up to this point, they've been buffering us from, at their own expense. Go Truckers!
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Wed, December 12, 2007 - 4:41 PMTrucks wear out too. I forgot to mention a 2000.00 dollar a month truck payment in those figures. Then there's the trailer you have to have. It also need's tire's now and again. -
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Wed, December 12, 2007 - 5:05 PMwell this thread got me thinking...and I honestly have a lot of doubts that the trucking community can pull this off, I think most people in the U.S. anymore are scabs, when it all boils down, from the nurse in the ER to the trucker brinkng cabbages to albertson's, there will be several who have no principle, and only value paychecks, and would use an opportunity like a strike, for personal promotion or grabbing a lion's share of business for themselves... especially in a traditionally slow-time like january....but setting that aside, this did turn my attention to the real possibility of 'some' kind of disruption potential this winter... so I went and got my two-weeks supply of whatever I'd need in a winter emergency. I don't have a two-weeks supply of gas, though...but I do keep a five gallon tank in the trunk and rotate it through every so often. That way, if a major power outage or disruption catches me even on fumes, I have a little over 100 miles of emergency range to locate a station that isn't affected, or swamped with traffick. -
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Wed, December 12, 2007 - 8:10 PMI hear truckers are already striking in europe.
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Fri, January 25, 2008 - 5:48 PMif the trucks stop rolling for a week or so that will shut down the entire economy -
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Fri, January 25, 2008 - 8:14 PMit takes a LOT of moral fiber to stage a strike. I'ts the perfect opportunity for a struggling trucking business to pull in some desperately needed income, if everyone else goes on strike.
That, on top of the guts it takes for big-corporation truckers to jeapordize their jobs..
The age of the union is over. The only unions that still exist, were created long ago in a different America. There is not the same moral fiber in this country anymore, and those same unions would realize that if put to the test today, many of them would not hold together any longer. The comaraderie, the sense of honor, it's all gone and replaced by mindless consumerism and desperate economic competition.
Don't pay attention, pay the rent. It's the American Way. -
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Sat, January 26, 2008 - 11:52 AMalot of load's have come up to 2.50 a mile. Flat bed load's anyway. Grain hauling still isnt worth a shit right now.
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Sun, March 30, 2008 - 6:14 PMFox new's just reported the possibility of a trucker strike again, starting tuesday. This time the teamster's and JB Hunt is throwing in with the independit's. They are wanting another federal speed limit of 55 miles an hour to ease the demand for fuel. I dont think I want to strike for that. -
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Sun, March 30, 2008 - 7:29 PMWOW haha... 55 miles per hour? Actually, I think I could see the various state gummints going for that.... it would generate billions in revenue for the highway patrol!
And those anemic little hybrids all of a sudden won't feel so underpowered I guess
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Sun, March 30, 2008 - 8:39 PM10 oclock new's just said that next week is a protest, not a strike. They also said it's not just the independent little guy bitching but some of the mega big companies are talking too. The fuel prices arent hitting me so hard since I'm buying and selling 50% of the stuff I haul. I like to do 70mph though. -
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Sun, March 30, 2008 - 8:47 PMWell, there's the beauty of a free market. Eventually the financial pressure of the oil companies is going to generate a reaction... it's just a matter of how far they get to push against a soft, pliable, weak-minded american population before they get down to that independent CORE of what makes real americans and why we stand up for our rights when the rest of the world has long ago buckled... But that little core is getting smaller and smaller, insulated by more and more mush-minded proletariat...
But it's good to see that there IS still a breaking point in there somewhere... Hopefully it will go through.. hopefully the iminent threat of such a strong, sudden restriction on speed limits will generate a new reaction in the public, something strong enough to where people will be willing to snap out of their day-to-day routine and make some lifestyle changes that will put pressure back on the oil companies to reign their prices in order to win back the consumers trust and patronage... we'll see. -
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Mon, March 31, 2008 - 9:07 AMdoesn't matter if the dick say's so to a majority of americans being aginst the bullshit in iraq they are certaintly not going to listen to a truckers protest---now if all the truckers did strike the nation would be at a standstill in a week stores would be empty and the gov't would either have to listen and get fuel prices lower or step in and scab the truckers with soliders
i say we hit the oil companies with a windfall profits tax and use that money to shore up our infrastructure like highways and mass transit---that would do more to boost our economy than these "rebates" -
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Mon, March 31, 2008 - 11:03 AMIf those truckers do strike I will be one of the first ones at the grocery store buying all I can. -
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Wed, April 2, 2008 - 8:22 PMThe real question is; which candidate is cozying up with the teamsters n drivers? You'd want to pick up their votes and have some influence when you got into the white house so you could either save the day and resolve the strike, or prevent it altogether (who wants that on their shift.)
waskily wabbit! -
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Sat, April 5, 2008 - 6:47 PMMy neighbor is a trucker and he was telling me the other day,that after he pays all his expenses he is lucky if he clears 300 a week. My daughter is doing better than that at McDonalds.
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