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Rmlp34 Sgt. Major of the Army User is Offline Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 572 Karma: 20 applaud / smite Location: South Ms. 675 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:14 am    Post subject: Has anyone heard of this · Quote I read on another board that the truckers were thinking of going on a big strike to protest the cost of fuel. Have any of you heard this? _________________ Staff member Company Liaison M.S.T. Delta Co http://www.myspace.com/purvismomof2
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afsp90_02 Chairman Joint Chiefs User is Offline Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 11253 Karma: 14 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 28875 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:14 am    Post subject: · Quote Nope, but I'd support it if they did. Brilliant idea, I wish the rest of us had that type of solidarity, the BIG OIL Companies & OPEC would be on their knees within days... It is truly sad when people interviewed on the news state that they can either afford to buy gas or food but not both, something has to be done. _________________ Administrator Forum Chairman Joint Chiefs [Staff CO] Commanding Officer[CO] Forum awards comity Moderator Staff Company staff officer M.S.T. Bravo CO.
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USMCwife cwo 1 User is Offline Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1262 Karma: 8 applaud / smite Location: Howard, Ohio 1244 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:14 am    Post subject: · Quote There has been some talk on the local news here this morning that they are in fact talking about doing if not today but in the near future. Living on a farm and having our own fuel tanks is nice but when it comes time to fill them up, OUCH THAT HURTS.  I feel for everyone having to pay as much as we do at the pumps but the truckers and people like us who "fill" at home. Can you say decide what you're going to do. Our fuel tanks are 300 gallons although I NEVER let them get that low but they do have a 150 minimum before they will come out to fill up. _________________ Staff member Staff Officer M.S.T. Delta Company
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Rmlp34 Sgt. Major of the Army User is Offline Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 572 Karma: 20 applaud / smite Location: South Ms. 675 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:28 pm    Post subject: · Quote Afsp you are right something needs to be done. Sad that ppl have to pick one or the other! _________________ Staff member Company Liaison M.S.T. Delta Co http://www.myspace.com/purvismomof2
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Outsider Asst. Admin User is Offline Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 4203 Karma: 27 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 32274 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:32 am    Post subject: · Quote Oh gooddie a topic I'm ACTUALLY qualified to talk about I drove trucks from October 1998 thru August 2004 I can tell you that this has been talked about heavily since fuel started climbing higher and higher several years back. When diesel got higher than gasoline it REALLY amped up the rumor mill. Now as one with experience out there I'll put this as gently as I can. Until the day it happens it is ONLY rumors!!! Truckers talk alot of BIG talk when it comes down to it though it amounts to a pile of ash. Here I'll give you a little insight on fuel and it's costs to truckers. The average 4 wheeler [Car/SUV] has no more than a 30 gal tank] Compare that to most big rigs which have usually 2 150 gal tanks, so they hold up to 300 gallons of fuel times that by the average cost of diesel fuel which is $398.9 per gal So 398.9 X 300 Gal=  $1,196.70 roughly to fill a truck up for delivering the goods we all need and use daily. EVEN the gasoline that we put in our cars are delivered by truckers!! The average truck worked properly with minimal idle time gets around 12MPG fully loaded up to 80,000lbs. So a truck can potentially operate for 3600 miles on full tanks of fuel. When temps get very hot or very cold these #'s change dramatically and they are ONLY a rough baseline. Now it is important to remember that it has been a while since I personally had to think about these numbers so I'm going on pure memory from over 3 years of being out of the game. Things have changed drastically since my time out there and my math might be a little off LOL. I CAN tell you this though, when the cost of transporting stuff goes up so does our cost at the check out lanes of where we purchase our goods from. I think the truckers would be smart to strike, it would teach our government a valuable lesson in economics and how IMPORTANT trucks and the folks who drive them really are as an  asset to our country and our economy. Without em' our country and everything we take for granted would cease to exist as we know it. Think I'm blowing smoke?? Might I remind you of the infamous UPS strike a few years ago? Remember the mess that caused and they only deliver packages. Multiply that situation by millions of dollars in products rolling up and down our highways EVERYDAY!!! Everything we buy is delivered by truckers, from the raw materials used to make the stuff we consume, to the finished products sitting in our favorite stores right now was at some point transported by a trucker!! Think about it you'll get the picture I'm trying to paint for you and you'll really see the devastating effects a full blown trucker strike could cause _________________ <table border="0" bordercolor="#F6FCFD" width="1" bgcolor="#F6FCFD"> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> </td> </tr>Commanding Officer M.S.T. Alpha company <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </table>
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afsp90_02 Chairman Joint Chiefs User is Offline Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 11253 Karma: 14 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 28875 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:52 am    Post subject: · Quote I was hoping you would comment on this my friend as our main resident trucker here... lol I agree about how devastating that would be to our economy, but also as I stated previously, OPEC and the BIG Oil companies would all but collapse if truckers decided IN MASS to strike over fuel costs. I remember as a kid during the mid-late 70s the last time when truckers organised in mass to protest high fuel prices and the "New" 55 MPH National Speed Limit, it was crippling. I pray they do it again... I am behind them "100" Percent! _________________ Administrator Forum Chairman Joint Chiefs [Staff CO] Commanding Officer[CO] Forum awards comity Moderator Staff Company staff officer M.S.T. Bravo CO.
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Rmlp34 Sgt. Major of the Army User is Offline Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 572 Karma: 20 applaud / smite Location: South Ms. 675 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:19 am    Post subject: · Quote Growing up with a long haul trucker for a dad I so agree they need to does this..Here dad said alot of OO truckers have already parked their rigs..J.B. Hunt trucks have been talking about it also..Not sure if it is true or how big they are..I will support them 100%.... _________________ Staff member Company Liaison M.S.T. Delta Co http://www.myspace.com/purvismomof2
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PATCHES SR. Chaplain User is Offline Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 12997 Karma: 16 applaud / smite Location: Randolph, County N.C. 9216 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:35 am    Post subject: · Quote I know it would make it hard on all of us for a while if the truckers did strike but as a wife of a former trucker and the mother of one I can only be behind them 100%. I think they need to do this to and maybe in the long haul it will help us all. I wish them the best and hope they will stick to their guns this time and not just talk about it but take action and do it. _________________ Staff Moderator Company XO   M.S.T. Charlie CO. SR. Forum Chaplain I used to ask God if He would come and help me. Then I asked if I could come and help Him. Finally I ended by asking God to do His own work through me.
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Rmlp34 Sgt. Major of the Army User is Offline Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 572 Karma: 20 applaud / smite Location: South Ms. 675 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:29 pm    Post subject: · Quote Truckers Strike to Protest Fuel Prices AP Posted: 2008-04-01 15:13:34 Filed Under: Business News, Nation News TRENTON, N.J. (April 1) - Independent truckers around the country pulled their rigs off the road and others slowed to a crawl on major highways in a loosely organized protest of high fuel prices. Some truckers, on CB radios and trucking Web sites, had called for a strike Tuesday to protest the high cost of diesel fuel, saying the action might pressure President Bush to stabilize prices by using the nation's oil reserves. But the protests were scattered because major trucking companies were not on board and there did not appear to be any central coordination. On New Jersey's Turnpike, southbound rigs "as far as the eye can see" were moving at about 20 mph near Newark, said Turnpike Authority spokesman Joe Orlando. Other truckers had gathered at a service area near Newark chanting and protesting. Outside Chicago, three truck drivers were ticketed for impeding traffic on Interstate 55, driving three abreast at low speeds, said Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Luis Gutierrez. Near Florida's Port of Tampa, more than 50 tractor-trailer rigs sat idle as their drivers demanded that contractors pay them more to cover their fuel and other costs. "We can no longer haul their stuff for what they're paying," said David Santiago, 35, a trucker for the past 17 years. Santiago, like many of the more than 50 truckers gathered on a side street near the Port of Tampa, said he can't support his family on what he makes. "If it wasn't for my wife, we would have been bankrupt already," he said. "The oil company is the boss, what are we going to be able to do about it?" said Charles Rotenbarger, 49, a trucker from Columbus, Ohio, who was at a truck stop at Baldwin, Fla., about 20 miles west of Jacksonville. "The whole world economy is going to be controlled by the oil companies. There's nothing we can do about it." Jimmy Lowry, 51, of St. Petersburg, Fla., and others said it costs about $1 a mile to drive one of the big rigs, although some companies are offering as little as 87 cents a mile. Diesel cost $4.03 a gallon at the Jacksonville-area truck stop. Teamsters union officials said they had nothing to do with any kind of protests. An independent truck drivers group, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, said it also was not organizing anything. Federal law prohibits the association from calling for a strike because it is a trade association. In Washington, meanwhile, top executives of the five biggest U.S. oil companies said Tuesday they know high fuel prices are hurting consumers but deflected any blame and argued their profits — $123 billion last year — were in line with other industries. Rather than joining the protests, some truckers were forced to sit idle because of shippers' fears of a possible strike. In western Michigan, independent trucker William Gentry had been scheduled to pick up a load and take it to Boston, but his dispatcher told him there was a change of plans. "She told me that her shipper was shutting down," fearing that someone would sabotage deliveries if their drivers worked during the protest, Gentry said at the Tulip City Truck Stop outside Holland, Mich. He and Bob Sizemore, 55, a 30-year veteran trucker, decided to return to their homes in Ohio, 280-mile trips that would cost each one about $200 of their own money for fuel alone. "We can't ride around here looking for freight," said Gentry, 47, a driver for 23 years. If something isn't done about fuel prices, the cost of consumer goods will shoot up, Gentry said. "People aren't seeing that the more we pay, the more they're going to pay," he said. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. 2008-04-01 13:31:56 _________________ Staff member Company Liaison M.S.T. Delta Co http://www.myspace.com/purvismomof2
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Outsider Asst. Admin User is Offline Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 4203 Karma: 27 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 32274 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:26 pm    Post subject: · Quote Quote: major trucking companies were not on board and there did not appear to be any central coordination. And therein lies the biggest problem right there!!! Until major trucking companies get on the wagon with the Owner operators NOTHING will change. It is a sad thing to see that it has come to this but I'm proud to see truckers actually taking a stand if only slowing down it is more action than I saw in 6 years of being out there as I said before it has always been "big talk" Looks like prices got high enough to get their attention unity is something the trucking industry sorely lacks trust me. Oh and BTW I got word today from Mr. Smith who shut down for the rest of the week out in  Little Rock Arkansas. He said he will try to check in with all the "free time" he is going to have this week if his computer will co-operate with him enough. I just wonder if any of the hard heads in DC got the message today? Oh I'm sure there will be some BS news conferences to come out of it but I doubt we'll get the REAL story Oh  and yes afsp I had to comment here simply because this is an issue I'm actually qualified to discuss. Unlike the military topics this is an area that I have hands on experience with. I loved watching the stories on the news today at all the trucks just sitting and doing nothing. Glad I was able to sit at home and watch from the sidelines though as much as I miss it at times I belong here at home with my family. I appreciate the job the truckers do as much as I appreciate the job our military does. To me they are both honorable jobs even when some who do them are not themselves honorable the job itself retains it's honor. _________________ <table border="0" bordercolor="#F6FCFD" width="1" bgcolor="#F6FCFD"> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> </td> </tr>Commanding Officer M.S.T. Alpha company <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </table>
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Oneactual Sgt. Major of the Army User is Offline Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Posts: 925 Karma: 6 applaud / smite Location: Dallas TX 325 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:48 pm    Post subject: · Quote Well, I've never driven a truck but I work in a major truckstop's repair facility and our lot was slammed from around midnight last night all throughout the day. We were like the roach motel truckers were checking in but they weren't checking out LOL. Best of all there were no trucks idling there engines here!! I've NEVER heard it so quiet on the lot. Was really cool to see them doing the right thing. and as far as I know unlike the 70's strike there were NO instances of violence being committed. Things went really well from what I seen here and from what I've heard on the news. WAY TO GO TRUCKERS!!! _________________    AS you were   Company XO M.S.T. Delta company Primo victoria<---click to watch cool video "They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them." ~Laurence Binyon WWI Purple Heart <--video
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Rmlp34 Sgt. Major of the Army User is Offline Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 572 Karma: 20 applaud / smite Location: South Ms. 675 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:13 am    Post subject: · Quote Right as always my friend OS.. I did see on th the local news that some of our local (big companies) did this too. But it did not say for how long. Now if we could get the truck, cars, trains, and planes to do this for I would say four or five days. Maybe DC would get the pic... I also feel that I can talk about this as it put food on my table for as long as I lived at home with my mom and dad. I can even handle a CB LOL Can't claim much on the other topics but support but can handle driving a big rig. LOL Now bet yall did not know that about me.. _________________ Staff member Company Liaison M.S.T. Delta Co http://www.myspace.com/purvismomof2
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