I have taken part in 6 protest so far while being o/o for over 25 year's,
1st one took part in was for a ad that put truck's in a bad light, got them to pull their ad, in 3 day's.
when they found out how powerful our group was.
2nd one was to get Ohio to raise the speed limit for truck's on interstate.
3rd one was when fuel prices were going up because of taxes in New York state, got them to lower tax by 2 percent that they raised it, there is power in number's. that is why you should join OOIDA
4th one was when all the truck's bobtail into DC, over fuel price and taxes they wanted to raise, help plan that .
but was out of hours for that one. was struck in Baltimore, MD for that one.
5th one was for pre diem for transportation worker, it went from 80% to %50, took us 8 year's to get it back to 80%.
every Friday we protest on I 95 unit we got it back to 80%
6th one was for truck stop who gave straight trucks a hard time, as we couldn't get require amount of fuel for a shower, as some of us only had 2, 30 gal fuel tanks, we showed them how much money we spent in there truck stop and work out a fair deal.