Truckers are Pissed

Truckers are pissed.



Today begins a short strike of independent truckers. All the pretty trucks are usually the independent drivers. They take pride in their machines and work long and hard on the road to be able to drive their own truck. Let me digress for a bit…

In the 1920’s we had an agriculture depression that preceded the depression brought upon to us by the wall street bankers. In the 1920’s the bankers went to the farmers and convinced them to buy tractors with credit and they would be able to multiply their profits. Well, that didn’t happen. All the farmers bought tractors and produced vast quantities which made the price of these products drop, thus making the profit margin increase to the farmer minimal. He couldn’t pay for the tractor and thus his farm ultimately got bought by a larger corporation. Now we have these mega corporations doing most of our farming and the independent farmer is hard to find.

That’s a very quick summary, but you can probably find more information on this should you research it on your own.

Here’s my point for today. The truckers now are really being pinched. They can’t buy fuel at the same rate as the bigger companies out there. The drivers for the large corporations don’t really feel this pinch like the independent trucker does. The independent truckers has to purchase his own fuel and pay what adds up to a head hunters fee sometimes as much as 20% just for someone finding him a load to run across the country.

The deck is stacked against him at this time and I really don’t think the big guys mind. The independent drivers, facing these high fuel costs, are having a hard time competing with the large corporations that compete for their business. I would not be surprised to see a large buy out of most of the independent truckers in the next few years.

Another big issue facing the truckers of the United States is the “Security and Prosperity Partnership" aka North American Union. To check into this go to youtube and search “Lou Dobbs SPP”

Here is a video:



With Mexican truckers running loads across our country, the price an American independent driver will be able to command on a load will drop to such a level that he will simply not be able to maintain the style of life that he has earned. This is just another example of how the corporate controlled government that we have, seek only to increase their profit margin at the expense of every American.