OK this link discusses trucker shortages - have they all died? | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 41297330 Canada 10/16/2021 09:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Its hell driving on the freeways now and all those check-points, there are almost no rest stopps to dine anymore as they're almost all closed and bordercrossing now take hours instead of minutes. Its insane! No wonder truckers are quiting in droves. The pay is lousy too. Remember, these are essential workers but they never got a pay raise like the nurses etc etc. That work their ass off doing one of the most terrifying and stressful jobs there is and barely get noticed. Its a real shame. So their quiting! Do you blame them? Some may have gotten sick from the vaccine too. Some could have even died from the vaccine. How would we know? The media covers everything up now to protect Pfizer and the other criminals. There is only ONE political party. The corporate party. If you want change "you have to be the change" you want to see. Make it so..... |
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Wankenit
User ID: 80868603 Netherlands 10/16/2021 09:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Joe Biden's dept of Labor fired all Truck Drivers with a HAZMAT license if they had a criminal past. This amounts to about 20% of US Truck drivers. They are creating the shortage on purpose... this is all about control and a commie takeover. There are no shortages of anything by drivers. Wankenit |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 80816943 United States 10/16/2021 09:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They are creating the shortage on purpose... this is all about control and a commie takeover. Quoting: Wankenit They have MUCH bigger plans than a simple commie takeover. This is about maximum chaos and casualties on the surface. They will implement their new government once most of us are gone. Until then, the name of the game is chaos. Pure and simple. |
GreatWhiteDope
(OP) User ID: 14839880 United States 10/16/2021 09:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Once these guys are gone and the stores go empty, it takes time to hire and train a new trucker class. And who will want to go into such an uncertain career? most people are not remembered by history for their virtue, but rather by what they have written. |
rlittler_
User ID: 75724965 Spain 10/16/2021 09:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Wankenit
User ID: 80868603 Netherlands 10/16/2021 09:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Once these guys are gone and the stores go empty, it takes time to hire and train a new trucker class. And who will want to go into such an uncertain career? Quoting: GreatWhiteDope Thread: Texas Company Offers Truckers $14K A Week Amid Historic Driver Shortage Wankenit |
KuvaszLove
User ID: 80979763 United States 10/16/2021 10:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Where are all the Mexican workers,? I use to see them all everyday past 20+ years, yard work, roof work, construction, street cleaning, etc., Truckers are free wheeling independent workers they don't get vaxx, no need and they are rebels. TRUCKERS HAVE THE POWER to put a hold on this whole country; they can block roads & expressways, delay goods, rot food. They got POWER! Remember they were going to revolt in AUSTRALIA but then something didn't happen. My theory is they are bringing in all these low IQ immigrants, training them to do trucker and Mexican worker jobs Why? Mexicans and Truckers love Trump. Love freedom & $ and independence & they vote Republican This lull is because soon Truckers will get vaxxed and or be REPLACED Last Edited by KuvaszLove on 10/16/2021 10:21 AM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79764755 Singapore 10/16/2021 10:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I tried to get rehired at Knight Transportation out of Phoenix, AZ. Clean CDL, no violations and I previously worked for them. They passed on my application. This whole thing is being carried out to topple the economy. Blackrock , State Street and Vanguard control the big trucking companies. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1854876 Canada 10/16/2021 10:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I tried to get rehired at Knight Transportation out of Phoenix, AZ. Clean CDL, no violations and I previously worked for them. They passed on my application. This whole thing is being carried out to topple the economy. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79764755 Blackrock , State Street and Vanguard control the big trucking companies. You have experience. They need the newbies, that will work for 23 cents and think they are hot s##t. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80734336 United States 10/16/2021 10:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I tried to get rehired at Knight Transportation out of Phoenix, AZ. Clean CDL, no violations and I previously worked for them. They passed on my application. This whole thing is being carried out to topple the economy. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79764755 Blackrock , State Street and Vanguard control the big trucking companies. You have experience. They need the newbies, that will work for 23 cents and think they are hot s##t. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79764755 Singapore 10/16/2021 10:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I tried to get rehired at Knight Transportation out of Phoenix, AZ. Clean CDL, no violations and I previously worked for them. They passed on my application. This whole thing is being carried out to topple the economy. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79764755 Blackrock , State Street and Vanguard control the big trucking companies. You have experience. They need the newbies, that will work for 23 cents and think they are hot s##t. I’ll just work for the competition, fuck Knight and all their bullshit. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75583697 United States 10/16/2021 10:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A truckers job used to be a good. See the world, make lots of future job contacts, decent pay and ocassionally get some time off. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 41297330 Not anymore. This is not the problem. For the last 5 years, all we have heard is driving anything ax a career is over. Intelligent vehicles will replace drivers with cameras. So why would a person bother? Sadly, the AI vehicles rollout has proven much more difficult then promoted. So divers never applied and the computers and cameras drive worse than a teenager. A few cracks have appeared. Uber,for example,sold off its AI vehicle company after years and billions of dollars. Wonder why? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81010406 United Kingdom 10/16/2021 11:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | these fux never do anything for one reason but i think a part of it is to push the "drive" for driverless vehicles. which will lead to a ban or reduction of "driven vehicles" because right now the robo drivers dont play well with real drivers |
A Jackson
User ID: 79235753 United States 10/16/2021 11:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A truckers job used to be a good. See the world, make lots of future job contacts, decent pay and ocassionally get some time off. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 41297330 Not anymore. This is not the problem. For the last 5 years, all we have heard is driving anything ax a career is over. Intelligent vehicles will replace drivers with cameras. So why would a person bother? Sadly, the AI vehicles rollout has proven much more difficult then promoted. So divers never applied and the computers and cameras drive worse than a teenager. A few cracks have appeared. Uber,for example,sold off its AI vehicle company after years and billions of dollars. Wonder why? Trucking companies are scared of the potential lawsuits of AI vehicle crashes and accidents. Too much liability for the company when there is no driver to charge with a crime. Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast. If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools. — Plato “AI is kind of a fancy thing, first of all it’s two letters. It means artificial intelligence.” Kamala Harris VPOTUS |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 81010406 United Kingdom 10/16/2021 11:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A truckers job used to be a good. See the world, make lots of future job contacts, decent pay and ocassionally get some time off. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 41297330 Not anymore. This is not the problem. For the last 5 years, all we have heard is driving anything ax a career is over. Intelligent vehicles will replace drivers with cameras. So why would a person bother? Sadly, the AI vehicles rollout has proven much more difficult then promoted. So divers never applied and the computers and cameras drive worse than a teenager. A few cracks have appeared. Uber,for example,sold off its AI vehicle company after years and billions of dollars. Wonder why? for parcels much easier to drone it, no human traffic at low altitude for freight they should have a couple dozen or so rail mega hubs spread around the country and have trucks haul 1-2 containers off the train a max of 4-8hrs from one of these depots. railways might need some investment but i bet there's plenty of capacity for 24/7 running |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77247483 United States 10/16/2021 11:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Leave it to the BIDEN BAFOONS to screw everything in your life up.. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80144013 Luxembourg 10/16/2021 11:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A truckers job used to be a good. See the world, make lots of future job contacts, decent pay and ocassionally get some time off. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 41297330 Not anymore. This is not the problem. For the last 5 years, all we have heard is driving anything ax a career is over. Intelligent vehicles will replace drivers with cameras. So why would a person bother? Sadly, the AI vehicles rollout has proven much more difficult then promoted. So divers never applied and the computers and cameras drive worse than a teenager. A few cracks have appeared. Uber,for example,sold off its AI vehicle company after years and billions of dollars. Wonder why? Trucking companies are scared of the potential lawsuits of AI vehicle crashes and accidents. Too much liability for the company when there is no driver to charge with a crime. now when i think of it, you gave me an idea, i was about to say how the companies that create, produce these AI trucks should be criminally liable for all the accidents, this will be implemented, and at the same time, these same companies will take over the trucking ones making people jobless and the state will take over, everything will be merged and as Musolini said, finally FASCISM will be ushered in, merger of the country with the big corporations Vanguard, Blackrock etc. all behind it |
Sandman1!
User ID: 80039739 United States 10/16/2021 11:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My understanding is that the new regulations plandemic hamper the port and the trucks! And now being blamed on the unvaxxed. The just a mask karens have done this, and everything that is going to happen!! Now half the world GMOed Trans-human Sandman1! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80144013 Luxembourg 10/16/2021 11:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's something that you may or may not know... Quoting: DuckNCover Due to the strict air pollution laws, in California, any 18 wheeler that is older than 3 years old can NOT pick up a load at any of the California ports. Just heard this little tidbit of information on the War Room... This is one reason why Cargo containers are not being transported, from the ports, in a timely manner... This just adds to the backlog... So if your an independent Trucker. You have to have new Rigs every 3 years, in order to do business at any of the ports in California... This is another nail in the coffin for business owners... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 69057032 United States 10/16/2021 11:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have a CDL, class A, air brake, double triple, tanker endorsements. I let my haz mat go because they made it too expensive to obtain. I have a motorcycle and chauffeur endorsements as well. Here is how it works since 2018, If you receive a ticket in your personal car and have a cdl the ticket goes against your cdl. There is a no masking rule for cdl license holders, what that is is this, say you get a 10 over in your personal car, you have 2 choices pay or contest in person in court. When you appear there will be no bargaining, it is either dismissal or pay. When you pay, the points go against your cdl and you basically become a liability to the company hiring you because you have points. So most of my friends with cdl licenses view it as a HUGE liability to even have a commercial license and are going other directions. Why have a gorilla on your back just to have a job that pays 30 an hour average? The gov is out of touch, out of control and must be treated like a noxious weed and sprayed with 24D and Roundup. |
The Juan Mower
User ID: 73435983 United States 10/16/2021 11:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80144013 Luxembourg 10/16/2021 11:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I’m confused... there’s a major interstate (I40) in my state, runs east to west coast and every time I check the highway cams, it’s as busy with truck traffic as it’s ever been. If there was a shortage... wouldn’t there be less traffic? Quoting: The Juan Mower who says the trucks are full of shipment, who says the cargo ends at the desired spot, who says that they're not stashing it somewhere where it shouldn't be to artificially prop up the crisis?! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 80608675 Canada 10/16/2021 11:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Check the local Obits. Compare deaths from Jan - Oct 2021 with deaths of the same months for 2019, 2018, etc. And note the age of the person (look for those 40 and under) and look for words such as "died unexpectedly" or "died suddenly". You'll see that people are in fact dying more and no one is reporting on it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 58151053 United States 10/16/2021 11:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 79987461 United States 10/16/2021 11:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don’t know how much Truckers are paid. I do know it is a hard job requiring skill. Time away from home. The roads will be very dangerous if we have a large number of new drivers on the road. From what I have observed, truckers who drive with two in the cab, usually (not always) are two brothers, a husband and wife, or some combination of family or close friends. Are these former, not working truckers making more money from unemployment, child payments ( unusually high $$), going on disability, or what? More money or enough money to pay the bills and stay home. Why are so many people, including Truckers (all respect) not working? Restaurant owners do not have the help they need. Local Kroger, (Pays employees well) has 30 minute lines to check out. Only 4 cashiers. Many shelves are bare. WTH is happening? How can this end? Certainly not quick enough. |
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