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"Hope" of a strike? This kind of attack on people would have resulted in a revolution not that long ago.

https://babylonbee.com/news/constitution-dies-of-coronavirus

I wrote the one trucker I know, but he's out of commission because of a brain tumor and says that most truck drivers are now Mexican or Sikh and don't care about America at all. He thinks there is no way they will strike. But I'm not so sure.

Not happening. The average person is broke and this inflation is killing them. They can't lose even a days wages. The independent truck owners could maybe strike, but your W-2 employee trucker is in a tough place.

I thought I've read before that truckers make up the largest percentage of employed people in the country. So they could make a difference if they did strike. I just don't see it happening. It's not about America necessarily, it's about putting food on the table for most truckers.

Truckers tried striking in LA in the 90s. A bunch of Mexicans came in and undercut them now its a shit job picking up freight from harbors and Mexicans crying about low wages.

I'm sure the Afghans they spread out throughout the country can learn how to drive trucks. How convenient and lucky!

We need a National Strike from the Union of the Liberty Lovers!
Maybe Monday would be a good day to refuse to show up for work. Make some silly excuse and don’t work that day.

We need to show the slavers that we ARE FREE MEN!
If the blue collar workers don’t show up, civilization itself crumbles!

There was already a driver shortage nationally, it doesn't seem like it would take too many more quitting because of Jab Mandates to fuck shit up a just little bit more
.Patrick says

most truck drivers are now Mexican or Sikh

I knew 3 Sikhs years ago that all shared the same commercial license. Two brothers were competent, I guess, the cousin was an immigrant that didn't know what a Stop sign was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_Broncos_bus_crash

On April 6, 2018, sixteen people were killed and thirteen were injured when a northbound coach bus struck a westbound semi-trailer truck near Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada. The driver of the semi-trailer had failed to yield at a flashing stop sign at the intersection of Highways 35 and 335. The semi-trailer was travelling at a speed of approximately 100 km/h (60 mph). Most of the dead and injured were players from the Humboldt Broncos, a junior ice hockey team from Humboldt, Saskatchewan, which plays in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL).

On July 6, 2018, the RCMP charged 29-year-old Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, the driver of the semi-trailer, with sixteen counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and 13 counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily injury. In early 2019, Sidhu pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Sidhu, an immigrant from India, will likely be deported from Canada once he completes his sentence.[6]

Word was, this guy had minimal training and experience and shouldn't have been driving that truck.

WookieMan says

The independent truck owners could maybe strike, but your W-2 employee trucker is in a tough place.

The trick, as with unions, is getting sufficient unity.

If all the truckers strike, they can get back any lost wages and their jobs as part of the deal for starting to drive again.

There's power in a factory, power in the land
Power in the hand of the worker
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
There is power in a union

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
War has always been the bosses' way, sir

The union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands
There is power in a union

Now I long for the morning that they realize
Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us
But who'll defend the workers, who cannot organize
When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?

Money speaks for money, the devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child
There is power in a union

The union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters, together we will stand
There is power in a union

Billy Bragg

WookieMan says

The independent truck owners could maybe strike, but your W-2 employee trucker is in a tough place.

If done right W-2 employees would have a very hard time driving around all these independently-owned disabled trucks clogging highways and byways...

Yes! In Australia there was a line of trucks miles long blocking the highways.

Patrick says

Yes! In Australia there was a line of trucks miles long blocking the highways.

Besides, it's not like there is an excess of trucks and drivers, so even if 20% of them stop running it will be a disaster in our current "just-in-time" economy.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/gop-prosecutor-threatens-felony-arrest-against-truckers-protesting-vaccine-mandates/

Hamilton Co. Prosecutor Joseph Deters was unusually stern in his warning, especially given that Black Lives Matter activists shut down highways nationwide last year, the majority of whom were never charged with a misdemeanor, much less a felony.

“I want to be perfectly clear. Anyone who attempts to shut down the highways in Hamilton County will be removed from their vehicles, charged with felony Disrupting Public Services, and they will go to jail,” Deters stated. “To those who claim to be supportive of law enforcement – law enforcement is not with you. This would pose a serious danger for our first responders and the community at large.”

The statement appeared on the prosecutor’s web site on Saturday.

No such statement exists from May 2020 when BLM protesters shut down Interstate 75, although Deters did speak out against “looting and rioting” that happened during associated protests.

Patrick says

Anyone who attempts to shut down the highways in Hamilton County will be removed from their vehicles, charged with felony Disrupting Public Services, and they will go to jail

IF they are still in their vehicles, lol. Go arrest 200 loaded big rigs and charge them with felony, you stupid cunt. And no, you can't prove that a particular person drove a particular rig to where it sits now.

Eric Holder says

IF they are still in their vehicles, lol. Go arrest 200 loaded big rigs and charge them with felony, you stupid cunt. And no, you can't prove that a particular person drove a particular rig to where it sits now.

They can impound the vehicles with some very hefty daily fees.

If you think there are shortages now... if truckers, or the docklands that load / unload cargo at the ports strike en masses a good portion of our commerce grinds to a stop.

HeadSet says

Eric Holder says

IF they are still in their vehicles, lol. Go arrest 200 loaded big rigs and charge them with felony, you stupid cunt. And no, you can't prove that a particular person drove a particular rig to where it sits now.

They can impound the vehicles with some very hefty daily fees.

It will take them forever to do it in one place only to find another section of the freeway blocked 5 miles down. The fees will be waived later as part of government capitulation conditions.

Sikh truckers know How to strike. When things get worse they will be blocking roads like they have done in India as farmers.
They have already done strikes to improve working conditions for truckers and against excessive environmental laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixxaOjnLGyM

DhammaStep says

I'm sure the Afghans they spread out throughout the country can learn how to drive trucks. How convenient and lucky!

Not so fast. Obtain Commercial DL is not "walk-in" process.

UK desperately looking for truckers now. After Brexit, many moved out of UK. They have shortage of everything, including gasoline.

REpro says

DhammaStep says

I'm sure the Afghans they spread out throughout the country can learn how to drive trucks. How convenient and lucky!

Not so fast. Obtain Commercial DL is not "walk-in" process.

There was a crash recently where a loaded rig couldn't stop in time at an intersection and plowed into a school bus. Turned out it was operated by a cousin of a Sikh guy who owned the truck. The owner had a CDL but let his brother and his cousin who didn't have CDL operate the rig from time to time (probably betting on "all Sikhs look the same to the Whitey" so if presented with the owner's CDL police wouldn't notice).