Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Trucker Strike Update 2

While supporters were hoping for a response in the tens of thousands, the numbers were more in the hundreds for independent truckers attempting a nationwide strike this week. (See previous posts here and here, and a mention of this humble blog in today's Knoxville News Sentinel.) MSNBC reported a three-mile convoy of slow trucks outside Atlanta yesterday, but the protests were limited nationwide.

Talk about the frustrations, the fears, the plans and the overall impact - or lack of it - has been rising on the internet, according to Technorati's tracking, and if supporters can make a more cohesive approach to organizing online, they may draw the numbers they want (or need):

English posts that contain Truckers Strike per day for the last 30 days.
Get your own chart!

Being independent means often operating under contracts written before the high prices now at the pump, while drivers working with large corporate organizations have a simple remedy for such problems - they don't pay for the fuel costs, the company does, and when prices go up, the consumer of the products being transported are the ones who pay higher costs.

Let's say the independents can get far more participation from their own ranks. It won't bring fuel costs down. Will it spur some type of action or reaction in government or business? Or will it just put the average consumer at another disadvantage and hollow out incomes even more than they already are?

2 comments:

  1. This is an issue effecting all of us and we MUST take a stand NOW. Our government IS a major contributing factor in the outrageous price of fuel, and the struggle American citizens are experiencing making ends meet. We must take action to get their attention. All other avenues has only fallen on deaf ears - our government is ignoring the will, and needs, of the American people.

    In The Last Year
    (63,000 Jobs Lost)
    (2 Million American Citizens Lose Their Homes)
    (28 Million American Citizens Projected To Be On Food Stamp Programs)

    Our government officials are eating good dinners, are living in beautiful homes, are driving brand new vehicles and are collecting large salaries...on the American Citizen's dollar. It's time to take our country back.

    STAND UP, SPEAK OUT OR GO BROKE!!!

    www.theamericandriver.com/files/TruckersAndCitizensUnited.html
    www.uscattlehaulers.com
    www.thetruckingindustry.net/strike.html
    www.truckdriversunited.com/truck_stop_talk.htm
    www.thetruckersvoice.net/

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  2. Truckers And Citizens United

    April 12, 2008 Convoy To D.C. Rally
    www.theamericandriver.com/files/wp/april_12_rally_pa.html

    STAND UP, SPEAK OUT OR GO BROKE!!!


    Safe Trails and God Bless
    www.theamericandriver.com/files/TruckersAndCitizensUnited.html

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