Question about fuel prices and trucker drivers??

Question

If the truck drivers go on a strike to protest the high gas prices, will people end up starving without any way to buy food. To be honest, I am getting worried, especially when I see the gas prices rising every day.

Answer 1

if the trucking industry would go on strike, and there is a good possibility of that, not all truck drivers will go on strike, it would mainly be the drivers that pay for their fuel out of their own pocket, such as owner/operators, or O/O drivers, and not the drivers that have their employer pay for their fuel for them.

I am a truck driver for Con-Way Freight, http://www.con-way.com/en/freight.  we are feeling the pinch from the quickly rising cost of diesel fuel, but since we do not pay for our own fuel, we have no reason to go on strike.  in fact, if the trucking industry would decide to go on strike, we may actually benefit from that as it would increase our business.

Answer 2

yes we will go on strike. but we wont be starving they will get food out to us .it dont sound good but we need to pray that things get better it seems like that some one could do something about the gas prices  going up

Answer 3

It wouldn't be a strike... It would be more like a protest, since their issue wouldn't be with their employer.

Unfortanately, it wouldn't accomplish much either... Independant truckers are the ones being put out of business by high fuel prices. The big companies and Mexican truckers are taking over. Whether the independants are forced out of business or quit in protest would make little difference to "the powers that be".

It's just another way the "globalists" are trying to keep the markets propped up at the expense of American's wages until the looting of the USA is complete.

Corporate profits sagging?... Fire Americans... hire foreign slaves... Trucking expensive due to high fuel costs?... Fire well-paid independant truckers... hire foreign slaves or large companies that pay slave wages and make money on volume...

As the US economy crumbles... they just keep robbing American workers to keep the stock market afloat and make companies show "growth" that really isn't "growth". It's just worthless dollars the Fed is printing and what they're taking from American workers and putting in the profits column. In doing so, they're not only hiding a recession, but they are also intentionally ruining any chances of recovery by creating a low-paid American work force that is no longer able to spend us out of any recession. Inflation due to the death spiral of the dollars they keep printing will make that even more certain.

They also seem to be subsidizing the cost of gasoline with the profits from diesel fuel. The price of diesel has gone much higher than the price of gas and it's a less refined product that should be cheaper. So... the independant truckers are being sacrificed and Mexicans brought in to keep us all driving and thinking things aren't that bad a little while longer... while more well-paid Americans are replaced with serfs who could never spend us out of a recession and save the economy. Every action they're taking now is just to make things appear normal a little longer, while they reduce us all to serfdom at the same time... while they get ready to make their big move...

They're just bringing us down so they can "rescue" us with a new form of government and a new currency that will fit right in with the one world government that's taking shape. No more wasteful middle class destroying their Earth...

The large world banks created money out of nothing and lent it to another nation that can now not pay it back. Another nation they now own. It's a done deal. All they have left to do is make us beg to give up our national sovereignty in exchange for help... or take over by force... One can easily see preparations being made for the UN to "save" us in a time of trouble... and the police departments unconstitutionally being federalized and unconstitutionally being merged with the military in order to use a little force against any "terrorists" who don't like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcliVB-Rb...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMRmsTod4...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKbE9qCz...

J.R.    See how well your high prices sit when the Mexicans come flooding in. Are you really cheerleading for your own destruction? Everythings OK... Doesn't affect me... Hows that been working for the USA so far? That's a mindset many have been brainwashed into. They use you to s***w over others and feel like you're part of the "elite"... but then it's your turn... 'cause I hate to tell you... you're BY FAR not one of them. You're a "useless eater" to them and they want 80% of us DEAD. As I explained, there is not even any hope of recovery from here and the change of ownership of this nation has already taken place. Has ANYTHING the government's done lately lead you to believe this is still a government "for the people"???  But, everything's great in your mind... Cheer for those who've overthrown our free country... Great. When one more American makes a little less... our debt is just a little more hopeless and we're ALL screwed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VllgsfG0...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK2Lo46Ov...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n11-XiyhF...

Answer 4

Worst case scenario, if for some reason truck drivers could not continue to transport goods across the country and the supply lines were severely disrupted, most likely the government would treat it as a national emergency, and take control of supply distribution.  It'd be a nasty thing, there would probably be panic & riots, rationing of goods, etc....and with the way FEMA handled Hurricane Katrina I'd  hate to see how they handled things on a nationwide scale.  

But IMO, such a scenario isn't likely to happen- the large trucking companies cover probably 80-90% of the freight hauled by truck in this country, and they're not in any trouble.  Their drivers aren't going to strike since they get paid the same rate per mile, regardless of fuel prices.  And if the companies were in financial trouble, well, virtually every other vital industry has gotten "government bailouts" (farms, airlines, railroads, mortgage lending, etc) so I'd imagine the big companies would be first in line for some sort of bailout from Uncle Sam.  

I also saw a report on the news the other day that compared the high oil prices to the "housing bubble" that recently "popped".....A lot of financial analysts are starting to refer to the record high oil prices as an "oil bubble"....and history shows that past "oil bubbles" are subject to busting just like anything else.  A couple years ago, housing prices were downright ridiculous in most places, hardly affordable to the average person, and prices just kept going up.  But very recently, the whole market corrected itself and in some areas, housing prices dropped 50%.

Experts are saying that the oil industry is overdue for just such a correction.  Who knows WHEN it will happen or how much it will go down- but to me, it makes sense.  If you look back to other times in history where oil prices skyrocketed (the 70's, 80's, and even the early 90's when we got involved in the Gulf War)....the prices always do come back down to a more tolerable level.  Will we see $1.35 gasoline ever again?  Most likely not.  But the analyst reports I've seen, are calling for at least a 60 cent per gallon decline in fuel prices whenever the "oil bubble" bursts.  

Not all the analysts agree, and I'm merely repeating what I've heard (I don't claim to know much about world oil markets).  It's never a bad idea to have a stockpile of food and supplies to last you a while, I'm from Florida so I am used to that sort of thing.  But I wouldn't stay up at night worrying about it.

Answer 5

The independent truckers who are running their business as a business are actually doing BETTER now than we were 5 years ago.  Those who are complaining and threatening to strike are either socialist whiners or incompetent businessmen.  Yes, I know that's harsh, but it's the truth.

As to the strike itself, there will never be enough drivers striking at any one time to truly interrupt the economy or delivery of consumables.  The strike(s) will accomplish nothing, as no two drivers can agree on just why they are striking or what they want the ultimate accomplishment to be.

As to all the truckers going broke, that won't happen.  Those of us who have business plans that include rising fuel prices already have fuel surcharges in place with our customers.  As fuel prices rise, so do our rates.  90% of the large trucking companies have these in place, also.  Even if all the independent truckers went out of business, the big companies could still haul enough freight to keep you fed and keep the economy going.

Answer 6

It is something I have been concerned about also.  It may not be them going on strike, but just going out of business. This country could possibly be in some serious trouble.  I hate to be a fear monger, but I am starting to get my 3 month supply of food ready.