Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
Greg... when I say right, I mean TRUE conservatives and libertarians... not Republicans or Christian conservatives. Unfortunately, the former group has not been in power since Coolidge.
New Sticker for the back of my Van..
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Greg... when I say right, I mean TRUE conservatives and libertarians... not Republicans or Christian conservatives. Unfortunately, the former group has not been in power since Coolidge.
greg334
Veteran Expediter
OK I agree 100% but who here is a true conservative?
Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
That's relative to the who is asking and answering. DougTravels could claim he's a true conservative. We all have a different definition, tho.
AMonger
Veteran Expediter
The late comic Richard Jeni did a bit that I found on youtube a while back in which he discussed the differences between the left and right.
He said on 9/12 he decided, "That's it! I'm becoming a hardcore, right-wing Republican #@#@%*!!" Then he went over the list of what he found there and a list of hypocrisies, ending with "pro-death-penalty, anti-abortion hypocrites!" while the crowd howled.
So he says, "So I went back over to the left. These are the tolerant people, tolerant of everybody else's views...until you say something that ****es them off. That's when they chain your @$$ to the back of a Toyota Prius and drag your carcass to the Berkeley campus and drop you off in front of the Fidel Castro Center for Continuing Studies On Why America Sucks." He fingered them as "tuna loving, salmon-eating hypocrites."
It's worth finding on youtube, and there's a lot of truth inside.
AMonger
Veteran Expediter
Not to mention, look who have us the PATRIOT ACT, Medicare Part D, the Gestapo in the airports, etc. with friends like these, who needs Demon-crats?
Tennesseahawk
Veteran Expediter
That's why I like libertarians. Live and let live; but don't screw up and expect me to save you. Chances are, I would anyways. It's called charity.
purgoose10
Veteran Expediter
Brisco
Expert Expediter
If I don't like O'bama does that make me a true conservative?
Nah.......it makes you a true American.
chefdennis
Veteran Expediter
purgoose wrote:
Brisco wrote:
Welll some (even a few here on this board) would call you a racist....
Brisco wrote:
Welll some (even a few here on this board) would call you a racist....
chefdennis
Veteran Expediter
Since i own my own truck, and the title has my name on it, i think that means it belongs to me..meaning, its my personal vehicle...and that is not an opinion, its a fact...I own it "personally.."
mcavoy33
Seasoned Expediter
but thats like only your opinion man
chefdennis
Veteran Expediter
No dude, its a fact, my name is on the title, i own it personally, not opinion dude, fact...
Chefdennis, i really enjoyed your posts, which are full of good information about this industry, thank you very much for that.
On the matter about any of the stickers(being political, religious, hippie, etc...) I consider that they are not professional for a truck "FOR HIRE" or leased to a carrier...
Of course this is my opinion only
On the matter about any of the stickers(being political, religious, hippie
, etc...) I consider that they are not professional for a truck "FOR HIRE" or leased to a carrier...Of course this is my opinion only
chefdennis
Veteran Expediter
And you are certainly entitled to your opinion...lol, even the one about me providing good info on the industry...lol..a few would disagree...
Sorry Dennis..I have to go with AmPack....they are IMO of course..unprofessional....your vehicle represents Load 1...NOT you...and that you could be banned from any UAW plant would cast a pale light on Load 1...and could ultimately hurt MY business....I'll remind you of something YOU and Joe always say in here...you are quite welcome to execise your freedoms of expression and speech as long as they don't interfere with mine...
Not that I want to weigh in, but I feel I should. I am of the opinion that everything we do represents the carrier that we work with or for. The business is what we are here for, first and foremost. I personally have a great GW Bush shirt in the Obama color palette that says "How is that hopey changey stuff working out for you?". I without a doubt am a conservative. But I would not wear that T-shirt into the office even though it is my business.
I strongly believe that politics and religion are two items that should stay out of the workplace.
I strongly believe that politics and religion are two items that should stay out of the workplace.
The problem is that customers don't see the title - all they see is LOAD 1 and the message stickers. Most of the time the guys in the warehouse and on the dock don't control carrier selection. But in some cases they do - and when that individual is sitting at his desk about to reach for the phone and call an expediter he'll have 2 or 3 companies he's used that all give him good service and good rates. He's looking at the magnets on his filing cabinet trying to decide which number to call, and he's not in a very good mood anyway because he's having to expedite something. The last visual impression he had of your carrier was your company logo and the stickers on the back of your truck as it pulled out of the dock. He doesn't remember that you were early on that last delivery and what a nice guy you were. He's a card-carrying member of the UAW and he voted FOR Obama - your company loses the business.No dude, its a fact, my name is on the title, i own it personally, not opinion dude, fact...
Things like this happen all the time - over the years, quote a few customers have told me that something seemingly trivial like this influences their decision to call Carrier A instead of Carrier B when all other factors are equal. Best to avoid the things that people go to war over - politics, religion and college football.
dieseldiva
Veteran Expediter
The phrase "LEASED TO" comes to mind. The carrier leases the vehicle, not the owner's opinions, political or otherwise.