As a 35 year teamster truck driver to all those owner ops planning on protesting in dc

[Duncanpup]

🖕off you stupid bastards you’ll strike over non existing vaccine mandates , yet you never strike for better hours service or higher wages dummies slaves on the plantation of trucking yesum boss trump.

[Walleye]

1. Republicans have perfected the art of deflecting the anger of their uneducated constituents

The one thing these people have in common is ignorance

[Probatim]

21. If they didn't have cognitive dissonance, they'd have no cognitive abilities at all.

I stole that from Reddit - and it sums up these bumblef*cks in one sentence.

[Walleye]

22. Damn that's true

[Probatim]

25. I read it out loud to my wife last night and couldn't stop laughing.

Might have to put it on a t-shirt.

[Pompoy]

2. Ex truck driver, I had the same thought

I remember all the complaining and talk about how they could stop the country if they acted together, but they never acted for better wages, unionizing, better conditions and respect.
But a vaccine? What tools.

[Chainfire]

3. But wait! If they struck for better working conditions and wages, wouldn't that be Socialism?

That is the power of big money to influence small minds.

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. "the power of big money to influence small minds." !!

Indeed.

[Walleye]

23. Yes,I like that phrase

[KPN]

32. Make that at least 3 of us like that phrase.

“The power of big money to influence small minds.”

[Chainfire]

49. Thank you, thank you very much.

The Plumber has now left the building.

[TheFarseer]

20. What's really holding them back

is those regulations about how much they can drive. If they could drive twice as much, they could make twice as much money and then they wouldn't be poor anymore. Why can't truckers drive 20 hours a day? Nanny state Bull S#!t and it's these damn Lie-berals that want to keep truckers poor so they can make us gay. Also - tax gouging and abortion!

[BlackSkimmer]

33. ..."so they can make us gay..."

Wtaf?

[TheFarseer]

34. It's a mock right wing rant

It doesn’t have to make sense.

[Beartracks]

46. True that.

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. I just ran the numbers, and have determined that in every trucker's shift,

the taxes they pay on their wages for an 8-hour shift provides Planned Parenthood with enough money to perform over 120 abortions - and not only is every trucker paying for 120 abortions per shift, that money isn't even going to middle or upper class women! They're killing babies AND having their money stolen to give it to the unworthy poor!

I have no citations because I work at FOX. Trust me. I've done a lot of research and math in the last 3 minutes. This is easily as verifiable as all the democrats eating babies in their sex trafficking pizzerias, and Hillary's emails!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

42. LOL.

Spoken just like a true Faux reporter.

Careful now, someone at Faux may see your post and offer you a job thinking your Faux material, you know, a serial liar.

[Karma13612]

35. That just might need to be my tag line now!

[CaptainTruth]

47. That is the power of effective messaging.

[panader0]

4. It'd be great to find out who is funding these guys.

A good friend has a trucker brother and he had to hustle to make money, rarely getting time off.
How do they take weeks off to protest? Are they all independent? Who do they drive for? The
financial backing needs to be exposed. Is some of it coming from overseas?

[2naSalit]

9. Exactly!

An empty trailer costs you money whether it's rolling or sitting still. If there's no trailer attached, the tractor is very expensive. There probably will be rely runs where some drivers will participate for portions of the route. What's really going to mess with a lot of them is the weather. Big arctic air mass descending from the north will be putting middle US in the deep freeze for a few days during their run, That could eliminate a lot of participation. Now if there was a big blizzard too, could really dash their plans.

[Pachamama]

11. This may answer some of those questions...

https://nationalpost.com/news/civil-servants-nasa-employees-and-an-american-billionaire-among-donors-leaked-in-givesendgo-hack

Best hack ever

[Karma13612]

37. And this is also another little tid-bit

[link:https://abc7chicago.com/canada-protests-truckers-convoy-ottawa-police/11584530/|]

[Lovie777]

5. K & R . . .

[EYESORE 9001]

6. Not a trucker but a former USWA member

Back in the day, I told my brothers and sisters that union members voting for Reagan was like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders. I see that nothing has changed where it comes to some people acting against their own interests.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. An Excellent Point! And well stated in your way. . . . nt

[rickford66]

8. Why aren't they hauling goods to help with the supply chain problems ?

[2naSalit]

10. Because they see themselves...

As serving their interests by messing up the supply chain to make the president look bad.

[sop]

12. The people behind this don't care about vaccine mandates, they only want to create chaos.

Tools indeed.

[Hortensis]

27. Yes, part of a growing dangerous anti-establishment populist movement.

Not to blame Putin for it all, because many huge factors go into growing aggressive populist antagonisms into movements and then combining them into a nation-destroying monster, but:

In 2016 American populist movements, LW class warfare and RW white nationalist, were both used by Russia and domestic plotters to help elect tRump and devastate Democratic Party resistance.

After that great success, our intelligence services warned that Putin himself said his next step would be to unite and grow U.S. populists into one big movement of the kind that destroys nations. We're seeing that anti-establishment/anti-institutionalist/anti-democratic movement form.

Crucial to understanding populism, though leaders always wave ideological flags, the aggressive types who rally to them characteristically far less motivated by ideology than by a range of high-fuel negative emotions that blame "the establishment" for excuses to attack and destroy. Covid disruptions of course.

It also explains the lack of decency and morality, how they can demand freedom while spreading disease into a national holocaust. This is populism.

Btw, tRump's new social media platform is supposed to launch TODAY, in time for this populist exercise. The app has been available for download over the weekend.

[gab13by13]

13. Paying people in Bitcoin is a tell.

[Voltaire2]

15. Don't most owner-operators have huge loans

to finance their rigs?

I’m going to go way out on a limb here and predict a giant nothing burger of a protest, along with expansive 24/7 hysteria from the media.

[Emile]

16. Not all owner operators are steering wheel holders, but many are. The

majority of them have to keep their rigs moving in order to make truck payments, insurance costs, road taxes, fuel, etc etc. Most are working under contracts to an employer and have scheduled loads to deliver. So I look for this so called threat as a big nothing burger!

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

17. DC should take measures to prevent trucks from being used as weapons against their city.

Set up road blocks where trucks are required to pull over at all entrances to the city, and prevent any truck driver who does not have legitimate business involving his truck from entering the city.

DC needs to pass emergency legislation making the use of trucks for the purpose of committing acts of economic and social domestic terrorism a felony ASAP.

[Hortensis]

28. The beginning gathering point was moved from Barstow to Adelanto

(desert towns north of Los Angeles) without explanation. May be Barstow had something to do with it.

[Karma13612]

40. Yea, make them all stop at the weight-stations.

Make sure every weigh-station is open and operational and stop every darn truck.

Do trucks operate on schedules that include the potential of having to stop at weigh-stations? Or would my suggestion actually cause more chaos and slow down delivery of needed goods and services?

Anyway, just spit-balling here. I feel safe at DU to just throw the idea out there….

[MarineCombatEngineer]

44. The vast majority of weigh stations don't even have us stop on the scales anymore,

we do a slow roll across the scales which will weigh us, hell, I have a device in my trucks that will allow me to bypass the scales because they do a pre weigh before I even get to the scales.

To answer your question, yes it would slow us down somewhat, but that is factored into my delivery schedule.

[Karma13612]

51. THANK YOU!

OK, so I just learned a LOT!

And by the way, Thanks for helping get supplies to consumers!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

52. And thank you for asking these important questions,

I'm always happy to answer any questions about truck driving.

[Karma13612]

53. Oh, now THAT is a bee-utiful looking rig!!!!!!! Eom

[Beachnutt]

18. Also there are a lot of immigrant folks

driving cross country now and you can bet these folks will keep rolling, so the magaloon faux fed steering wheel holders are only giving their work to somebody who wants to work while they're trying to create havoc for the orange con.

[jaxexpat]

24. Hit on the big thing, there, Beachnutt.

The single greatest driving force behind all these low-info yahoos acting out is their witless stance to decry the passage of time, with its rising and falling tides, migrations of people seeking resources and, you know, change. They'll NEVER understand that to stop the sun's setting is to deny the sunrise. Shallow, silly cannon fodder people, following the flags of their betrayers.

[orangecrush]

19. KICK

[Beachnutt]

26. The blue states should open the scale houses

and stop the convoy action by doing inspections etc....

[relayerbob]

29. I bet They are getting paid to do this

Follow the money to see who is behind this

[FBaggins]

30. Why would an owner operator strike for better hours or higher wages?

Aren't they their own bosses and decide which loads to take and when?

[Emile]

31. We all work for someone.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

36. ...

Aren't they their own bosses and decide which loads to take and when?

Yes, but when I accept a load, then I'm now under contract with the company to deliver the load on time, so at that point, I am, in a sense, a temporary employee of the company.

I'm fortunate to have a very good agent that gets me and my other driver good paying loads, and I'm on WalMart's favored list of owner/operators to haul their trailers, and they pay good mileage rates for owner/operators.

[FBaggins]

43. Certainly you become to some extent their employee

But the question is why you would need to strike for better hours/pay. If you have a religious objection to working on Saturdays, you don't accept loads that require Saturday work. If Walmart ceases to offer good mileage rates, you don't have them on your own favored list any longer.

[Wounded Bear]

38. And while you're fucking around he'll steal all your loads...

[MarineCombatEngineer]

41. +100.

Ayup, more loads for those of us that want to haul rather than participate in this renegade "convoy".

The elephant in the room that most of us are forgetting is that Teamsters Union President, James Hoffa, condemned the Canadian truckers for their blockade, gotta wonder how the Teamsters drivers will react?
You really don't want to fuck with the Teamsters Union and their ability to make a living, bad things tend to happen.

Not that I want anything to happen to these renegade truckers.

[halfulglas]

45. I hate driving the DC beltway with a passion.

But considering the length of time between the gridlock and mayhem caused in Canada and the State of the Union address, I wouldn't be surprised if DC, MD, VA and feds have been gaming this possibility with contingencies of main roads to and off the Beltway and other main roads (MD 50, etc) into DC to close off some of the access points. I wouldn't be surprised to have some discrete snipers posted near the overpasses.

[Cha]

48. Kick and Bloody R!

TY!

[Warpy]

50. They are a mass movement in their own small minds

I know some indie truckers out there and I know how much work they need to put in just to stay even. Damned few of them will join this nonsense, they are running businesses and need to keep that business running.

I can't imagine who's going to join these soreheads. Most of them are only angry because Canadians had the idea first.