Re: Typical pig behavior perfect example of why there's bad air, high gas prices..


Do you really think for even a momement that everyone would throw up
their hands like helpless little babies because you and your asshat
trucker brethern decided not to drive anymore? HA. At one company I
worked for employees were expected to skirt customs laws just to get
stuff in faster than the shipping companies could.

Try to run a business...ANY business, without regular TRUCK deliveries...if not directly to the business, then to the business's various suppliers.


It's a pitty you think you're so damn important that the world would
just shut down and everyone would throw up their hands and say 'we can't
do anything, the truckers went on strike'. What would happen is: 'those
*** truckers went on strike, get that *** here now, anyway you
can'.

OK, I'm curious. No trucks on the road. How are you going to move loads that weigh ~40,000 pounds? That's about 80 typical pickup trucks, assuming that the load can be broken down into pieces that will fit a pickup truck. But just breaking DOWN that load would be mucho labor-intensive. Figure two or three strong men and 4 hours labor each.

It's the "anyway you can" that you don't seem to grasp the importance of. If no trucks are moving, there is nothing to replace them. Nothing. Could something replace them? Sure. Throw thousands of TRILLIONS of dollars and a decade or two at the problem, and you could replace trucks. In the meantime????????????????????????????

It's not that businesses would give up. It's that businesses would soon realize that they have no choice but to "give up". There's a difference between wanting to go out of business and not being able to stay in business.


Hardly. Smaller vehicles that avoid CDL requirements would work.

There aren't enough pickup trucks in the universe to replace class 8 tractors pulling ~53' semi-trailers.


Aircraft, rail, barge, ship.... The world would go on without you.

Do you have any idea how much it would cost to ship truck cargo BY AIR?!? Railroads are near capacity and need billions in maintenance just to KEEP capacity at current levels. Barges and ships might work fine for running stuff up and down the coasts. But shipper and receiver would both need to have ocean docks.


See here you go... you know the world would move on without you if
truckers just up and quit so you are trying to change the ground rules.
If conditions made long distance trucking unprofitable it will be
because the change in conditions favored some other form of transport.
long distance trucking would slide into a niche market and essentially
be over.

What you say might happen someday. But if we wanted to make it happen now, it would take decades and many trillions of dollars to make it happen. In other words, if truckers really did strike, the economy will tank. -Dave

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