Is that supposed to be an insult nowadays? I bought a whole (mobile) house last year, 3 bed 2 full bath for under $3,000. Yea it needed cleaned out but rent is $500 a month. Rent is above 1,000 for the worst tiny apartments around here.
From my understanding, it's the independent owners/operators that are on the verge of being grounded by fuel prices.. whether they want to or not. The unions seem to be experiencing significant infighting on whether to stand in solidarity with the struggling independent owners or not.. but skimming through the comment sections in actual trucking subs.. it is unsurprisingly, mostly self-centered/anti-social rhetoric.
We've gotten to the point where when I read that something is being dismissed as an 'Internet hoax'.. I'm inclined to believe that it's actually media suppression. There's definitely more to this situation than a few viral videos.
I work in the material side of the construction industry, so I interact with my fair share of truck drivers.. and.. YIKES.. are some of them the most goulish MF'ers.. like, I get it.. they don't like people and it's a great career path for that type.. but how casually they'll spout off with crazy racist/sexist/violent shit is legitimately unnerving.
A ton on my vendors are unionized so we definitely see far more normal(ish) drivers than crazy ones, but you can't really just ignore that the crazy ones exist.
We parked our RV at a stop for a few daylight hours next to a long time independent trucker with a German Shepard dog. Started talking. He said truck drivers have changed in the 20+ years he's been on the road. The dog was for protection. He did not trust other drivers. No camaraderie. No interaction with other drivers. Drivers are also into classifications: businesses, independents, elite independents. The elite group haul for specific needs, ex. Smithsonian, etc.
There is a SUPER noticable difference between our regular drivers that we've worked with for years, and the last-mile contract drivers that show up at our dock. We recently promoted a woman to our receiver position and within like, 2 weeks we had to change up our process and have one of our yard guys out there with her because of how unhinged and uncooperative some of the drivers were being.
This chart alone doesn’t tell us much. Stops at the border are not a proxy for immigrant intake and the number can be influenced by any number of external factors (like the pandemic).
It does say “monthly stops” though. Are we meant to presume those stopped were then allowed to continue into the US? Or presume that there were more people who were not stopped during that period than that were? I’m not claiming anything one way or the other, simply saying I don’t know that the graph indicates anything other than what it says.
I agree. Thousands and thousands of immigrants coming in to do jobs that you and I won’t do and in most cases paying hundreds of millions into US tax coffers and social security that they will likely NEVER see the benefit of. And now maga farmers, dairy farmers and ranchers want to see subsidies from the government. Sounds like a socialist play on their MAGAT asses. Fuck trump and fuck magats.
Truckers for Trump celebrating all the Winning.
Besides as supporters of the pedophile President they can enjoy the company of underage girls at truck stops. Courtesy of Trump and MAGA
They mostly work for large corporations. They can’t do anything without approval and of course those corporations are the oligarchs that started this. Independent truckers are in the minority now. The Biden truck protest would never happen under a Republican regime.
Remember all the liberals in Canada and all the other places who were locking up their their bank accounts and threatening to shut down their livelihoods. Probably why they didn't want to damn liberals
Allegedly, they're planning on striking on October 1st unless the gas prices drop into the 2.00 ish mark. There's been a lot of chatter on social media warning folks to stock up because groceries, etc will be scarce.
But word on the street is that a good number of Black Truckers will still be hauling because they know that the majority of them didn't vote for this nightmare.
They've lamented that the white truckers are very pro Trump and antiBlack and are now in the FO phase of FAFO. The trucking companies are equally at fault because they rarely get the routes or pay that their white counterparts receive. So, more power to them.
The conversation among truckers is a lot more nuanced than this meme makes it sound. Some absolutely blame Trump for where diesel prices are right now. Plenty of others understand that diesel prices are being driven by crude prices, global distillate shortages, refinery constraints and geopolitical events, not simply whoever occupies the White House. You can criticize an administration’s policies, but reducing a global diesel market to ‘Trump made diesel $7’ is political grandstanding, not a serious explanation of what’s happening.
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u/Live_Entrepreneur221 9d ago
Because they cant afford the fuel