Truckers To Shut Down America

[irpat54]

just when Obama thought it was over, on the heals of nearly 1 million Bikers descended of DC not the truckers are on the move...

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https://www.facebook.com/truckerstoshutdownamerica

[Kegler300]

Cool!

[irpat54]

they mainly are protesting Obama's energy policies..

[Kegler300]

After my dad retired from the Air Farce, he was an 18-wheeler for 25 years. He's 80 now, but could still drive an 18-wheeler if they need him!

[irpat54]

i saw some pictures of a lin of trucks headed for the staging area already if they get 1/4 of the trucks that there were of Motorcycles, that will send shock waves with ripples felt all the way to congress.

[Rocky C]

Nice !!!

[Marine1955]

Let's Get-R-Done !!!!

[Old Marine]

When this happens at the very least, the highways in the U.S. will be much safer.

[irpat54]

When this happens at the very least, the highways in the U.S. will be much safer.

lol

[hbharrison]

I have seen this before and the big companies would not play along and it failed. Now if the big boys joined in WOW it would not only shake DC the oil companies would feel the bite to.

[m14ed]

Comeon Guys,,,,,
Just because it only cost $1.80 or so a gallon back in 2008,,
Why they wanna blame OBAMMY ? for high prices and
backtalk ????

WHO you wanna believe ??????
Obama or
your LYING EYES ?

[Rocky C]

I want it to be 99 cents per gallon again :)

[irpat54]

I want it to be 99 cents per gallon again :)

lol.... i remember complaining when it went up to .35 a gallon,,

[Rocky C]

When I started driving 29.9 a gallon...

[irpat54]

with me, at the time in Michigan, it was .20 a gal, but i was to young for a legit drivers license but that didn't stop me from taking my motorcycle all over the place, back then the Sheriff and local police didn't care as long as you kept the traffic laws,,

[Rocky C]

Same here.

[Alisium]

I suspect this has more to do with the onerous DOT rules and regs that have been coming out in the last few years. Breaking the backs of the actual people who keep this nation going.

W/O Truckers we're all effed.

[Marine1955]

When this happens at the very least, the highways in the U.S. will be much safer.

You have no Idea what your talking about!! Us truck drivers are professionals and take our jobs very seriously..

[Marine1955]

I remember pumping gas for 15 cents a gallon back when I was a kid work at a gas station. I also remember Diesel being so much cheaper than gas. When gas was $1.79,, Diesel was $0.25 cents to 30 cents now diesel cost way more than Gas!!! What the Frack...

[Thearle]

​When I first drove it was 18.9--A Buck would get me from New Bedford to Boston, drive around town gawking and back home and still had plenty of gas. Of course it was, ahem, a Corvair Spyder.

[Kegler300]

Whatever the price of gas was in 1973 is what it cost when I started driving ...

[Rocky C]

That would be $1.73 a gallon.
1973 was the year the " Oil Crisis " started (OPEC).

[Kegler300]

I didn't start paying that until around 1979. I looked it up and the price at that time was $0.39 a gallon. In today's dollars with inflation, that would be about $3.00 a gallon. So in essence, I've been paying about $3.00 a gallon the entire time I've been driving!

[HST]

You have no Idea what your talking about!! Us truck drivers are professionals and take our jobs very seriously..

Trucks are a huge waste of fuel and cost us billions in repairing the damage they do to our highways. Many of the drivers are complete azzholes, they think they own the roads and put out all of that bs about the taxes the truckers pay when in reality they are nothing compared to the damage they do. The trucking industry is just another taxpayer funded entitlement program for people who lack the skills to perform constructive work. Trains are far more energy efficient and don't run slower drivers off of the roads

[awbrown1462]

Trucks are a huge waste of fuel and cost us billions in repairing the damage they do to our highways. Many of the drivers are complete azzholes, they think they own the roads and put out all of that bs about the taxes the truckers pay when in reality they are nothing compared to the damage they do. The trucking industry is just another taxpayer funded entitlement program for people who lack the skills to perform constructive work. Trains are far more energy efficient and don't run slower drivers off of the roads
you need to look at a RR map they do not go everywhere or to every town they bring things into a big station and have trucks haul everything to where it has to go also trains run at there time not yours so if it has to get there sooner then its by truck

[Old Marine]

You have no Idea what your talking about!! Us truck drivers are professionals and take our jobs very seriously..

Used to be that way, many years ago, but I was speaking about today. Many are eating pills, drinking while driving and partying when they reach their destination.

My father and father in law were both long line drivers and if they were alive today they could outdrive most of the truckers who travel the roadways.

[HST]

you need to look at a RR map they do not go everywhere or to every town they bring things into a big station and have trucks haul everything to where it has to go also trains run at there time not yours so if it has to get there sooner then its by truck

When I was a kid and beyond, the trains ran on time and stopped at many of our small towns, the trucking industry, the trucking unions (jimmy Hoffa), and railroad greed killed the railroads for now but it's the way of the future

[Rocky C]

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[Old Marine]

I remember ten and fifteen cent a gallon gas and along with it came a cleaned windshield, oil checked, battery checked, radiator checked, tires checked including spare. No one was allowed to pump their own gas as it was against the law for insurance purposes. You still cannot pump your own gas in the state of Oregon.

I also remember doctors that made house calls.

[Thearle]

If ALL the big companies go along with it, that will mean no gas delivery. I walk, though just barely, so I wish them luck. They cut profit margins for drivers then impose rules that make thing harder. Gee, and all the TP'ers won't make any money.