One Man Fight to Save the Expedited Trucking Industry
- Thread starter deadhead
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There are two things you can do that will make a difference: (1) make reports as I described above and (2) organize, teach and motivate others to do the same.
What does not work is to spend a lot of time thinking about what other people think about you. Activists who disrupt the status quo always encounter opposition and they have the ego strength to proceed through it. They don't care what the masses think. They focus on the result they are out to produce. This is not an election where you need a majority to win. You don't need the masses to believe in you. You only need a small number of people to believe in the cause.
It helps to give people something specific to say yes to; in this case, a specific action to take (call it in). The lack of response so far is not about you. It's about the lack of something specific for people to say yes to and the lack of someone to show like-minded expediters the way to take action on this issue.
Suggested suggestion steps are provided in my posts above. While there are certainly other things you can do, I know of none that will be more effective.
man of truth
New Recruit
you are right we were in this together until the great greed factor took over just like it always does. but here is another good one for you in the greed factor. {DELETED} started out giving me loads making decent money and i had an agreement up front before i ever started to have my ckecks overnited to me once a week and i would pay for it.well that went fine for a little while and then i get a phone call from {DELETED} saying that the cost on overnite had double(they didn't offer direct deposit) so i said ok lets do pryority mail like i send you every week. it's 5.75 and he said ok but he would have to charge me 10.00 to take it by the post office so i said ok.well i sat for almost 2 weeks trying to get a load and couldn't so i left the company and {DELETED} decides to just keep my last check to pay for something he wanted and before that he tried to talk me into giving the company 30% of my pay each week to pay for the fuel in there company trucks(guess what my answer was) so help me spread the word on what kind of company and people they are.
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Starting to see? U been asleep for the couple years? Lol
Those ole yellow ones are starting to disappear and they are buying up the old 05-06 sprinters instead ... Tons of them mostly Illinois played too
Honestly it does seem like there are less of the yellow trucks around now than a couple years ago. Don't think the guys are gone just migrating to other vehicles.
Yeah, they figured out that you can't make money driving for $0.60 a mile in a vehicle that gets 10 mpg, no matter how many miles you get a week.
Deadhead, I'll join your fight..tell me what you need me to do! My name is Steve Barrett with Barrett Directline Delivery Services, Inc out of Bentonville, AR.
My email is [email protected]
Send me pics and I'll spread the word.
CharlesD
Expert Expediter
While I think it's important to report trucks running illegally and get them off the road, let's at the least not paint all the Eastern European drivers with one broad brush. In my time on the road I met plenty of good honest folks from that part of the world and we even have worked with a couple Russian owned carriers who are running legally and honestly. Maybe a few bad Russians are tainting the whole lot it seems like.
considering the last small carrier to go belly up that blasted these pages, was a good ole fashion American that ripped his drivers...
I got a better idea how about we mind our own business and quit being snitches because snitches get stitches.
LOL...I hope that's a joke. If not, you've got my info!
I'd say it depends on the situation. Trying to get folk into trouble over minor violations because they're the hated "ferriners" is one thing. I agree with you there. On the other hand, if I KNOW that a truck is seriously unsafe and I say nothing, somebody may die because that truck isn't stopped.
Yesterday, route 23 South of Chillicothe, Ohio... Followed a Sprinter with no badging, loaded so heavy it looked like he was a jet taking off. I AM Not saying that this was someone from another country or even an expediter, could of been a local. Really does not matter, still looked bad.
So, it's a threat IF I "snitch" on you?
Well, if you are not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have a problem. If you are, stay out of my way. We are all competing against this..it's not a personal attack.
Deadheads concern is very valid, and should be addressed loud and proud!!