Ok, first let me say, sure I am negative on this site because most of you JA think you are always right.
Also, I criticise the OOIDA, sure, why not. I have failed, thus far, to make decent money for several reasons and I do not blame anyone but me. BUT, the industry is failing and laws are being pushed onto us because the OOIDA has failed us! Stop making excuses for these little SOB's......it is not the size of membership, etc etc. They just get pushed around by other associations that are better orgainized, know the legal system and political system better and know how to get the job done better - it is that simple.
The OOIDA as we know it TODAY is a small, weak, unorgainized, unpowerful, unknowledgeable (in the legal system) association of misfits.
Our money and time is better served taking our issues to our carriers or god help us - ANOTHER association, group or alliance to address the issues facing the EXPEDITE INDUSTRY.
Stop making excuses for the OOIDA, the industry being on some sort of roller coaster because it has always been that way - the problem with this industry is us, - the frickn' drivers and o/o's who stand here with our head up our tails letting all these regulations, rules and laws change coming from the feds or our carriers take effect and we just roll with the punches, saying ain't notin' we can do about it that is just the way it goes. Then have the nerve to tell everyone to join the OOIDA to fight the issues they have already lost or to take on other challenges they can not tackle. IF your happy that 'gee at least they were there' just send me your $25 dollars and I can just stand there as well.
Holy turd - the industry is going down the drain and we are the one's that hold the plug. Do we keep letting OOIDA, the feds, and the carriers win without us saying anything or are we happy just to come on the site and act like there isn't anything we can do, we have to cut back, etc and then come right back here and ACT like everyting is fine.
Call me whatever you want I do not really care, all I know is that I am tired of watching so many of you coming on here and telling me and all the other newcomers to just shut up, read, learn, we don't know what we are talking about, the industry these and that and bla bla bla bla bla.
THE INDUSTRY IS ON LIFE SUPPORT AND THE OOIDA helped put it there. And you, being to blind to open up your window shades to see what is really going on, and to filled with pride, need to wake up and notice the crisis.
I have made mistakes, refused way to many loads, came home way to many times - so that is part if not the whole problem on why I have not made any money and I can accept and assume the blame for MYSELF.
But - when will some of you wake up and notice who is to blame for the industry wages, etc going down the toilet?
OK, now please stand by because here comes the excuses from some of you- competition, customers watching their cost, supply and demand, etc etc etc............you are missing the point.
We control our own future - we have allowed others to interfere with it.
