Originally posted by: Skoorb
Frig em! Regan should come back and fire them all and find scabs to replace them. I know a lot of these trucks are privately owned, so the scalpers can just use their pickups
These folks probably feel the pinch of higher fuel prices much more than most of us do, since they burn quite a bit daily, and they have no "mass transit" options...they HAVE to have the fuel to work.
The majority of us have no reasonable mass transit option.
However, gas is only a small part of my budget. It is a major part of transportations' budget and it must indeed be killing their margins, or at least somebody's. I thought they would just increase their costs and pass it to us, though, in great part.
I agree with you that without a union, this won't do anything. Private individuals cannot effectively strike because they lack a trust in the process and are not accountable, so this won't make a dent.
I don't buy the idea, though, that these guys are being run out of business. If they are, just raise prices. If they have to and other truckers don't, why is that? If they all were forced to raise prices because of the market, you and I would have to pay for them because we need things moved so the idea that a bunch of truckers are going bankrupt is silly.