Trucker Strike 2024

05/19/2020

How accurate do you think this is?

01/01/2020

I'm not sure i believe their reasons. Your thoughts?

After more than 60 years in business, Diboll, Texas-based Fleetwood Transportation Services is closing effective December 31, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.

12/25/2019

I posted this, (because i did hear it on the CB) and someone answered in the way I expected:

"My husband had a stroke 10 years ago. He can't work. Both our insurance plans denied paying for the bulk of hospital bills. We pretty much lost everything.

Cut to 2019, I ALONE pay for all the bills. I am a company driver. I CANNOT afford to strike. Reality is a bit more dense and complicated than the stereotypes. "

This is exactly WHY we need to go on strike. Force the carriers to pay respectable wages, AND health insurance.

I can't afford to sit at home and not work either, but I'm willing to legally do what needs to be done to get our point across.

Should we join the teamsters? Maybe.
Should we form our own union? Maybe
Should be do this to make our discontent known and force changes to benefit us as drivers? Yes.

We need to come together as drivers to do this, and get this done.

For those of you who say we can't agree on anything, I think we can agree that companies are taking advantage of us drivers, and we're tired of it.

So I heard something on the radio, and went to the fb page. Someone is trying to organize a strike to get the DOT/FMCSA/PUCO to change the rules....

12/25/2019

Truckers were left stranded upon the GDS and Celadon trucking companies closing without warning. One theory of the cause is mismanagement.

12/25/2019

Allegedly, the two former execs "face decades in prison". I'm willing to bet the title to my truck that they will buy their way out of the prison system, while the drivers are faced with uncertainty in their future.

Anyone want to take me up on that?

Former Celadon Chief Operating Officer William Eric Meek, 39, and Chief Financial Officer Bobby Lee Peavler, 40, were arrested Thursday morning.

12/25/2019

You know, I thought about driving for them too

Staff works to get drivers home, jobs

12/25/2019

And yet, they think this is okay?

Barb Taylor, 56, has a reminder for anyone sent to repossess her black International LoneStar truck — the one with the giant pink ribbon decal. "That's my truck," said Taylor,...

12/11/2019

So yeah, another one leaves its employees high and dry, with the bigwigs getting the money and not facing jail time.

CEO Paul Svindland confirmed the company's filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

09/08/2019

I've been a bit busy with work, and I really would appreciate some help getting this page out there. 3 days of shutting down and we'd get changes made. Please comment, like, and share this page to get it out there!

08/14/2019

This is one reason the ELD's were and are a bad idea.

As a driver who uses one, what do you think?

A trucking industry trade group has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to examine the connection between the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Mandate and the number of fatal traffic crashes caused by speeding.

07/19/2019

Here's the "bloodbath" that we've heard about.

Anyone seeing a pattern?

The trucking industry is struggling in 2019 — especially for truck drivers who own or work at small businesses.

07/19/2019

We've lost another one.

After 40 years in business, Ceres, Calif.-based Timmerman Starlite Trucking Inc. has closed.