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Post by wilson on May 31, 2014 15:11:05 GMT -5
wht happend at the driver meet this morn? i had change two tires so did not make it. was many drivers ther?
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Post by kooltruck on Jun 1, 2014 6:45:31 GMT -5
I did not make the meeting either. My tractor was down for three days last week so that took priority Saturday. Maybe someone can fill us in on details.
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Post by mark on Jun 1, 2014 10:46:56 GMT -5
didnt make i also.wht happend?
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Post by jack b on Jun 3, 2014 2:42:17 GMT -5
ok what driver meeting? i was mot aware anything was happening here in tidewater. wish i had found this site earlier.
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Post by FUSION on Jun 3, 2014 5:59:26 GMT -5
Well drivers according to my count I only saw fourteen drivers on Funny-Facebook photos. If you add the other half of the pic by estimation it probably be about 28 in attendance. I believe drivers y'all DID NOT miss much. Beside, what good can come from having someone from VIT explain what is NOT going to work. APM = NIT's appointment system, think drivers. Do the math. Yeah, y'all did not miss much, but you will with the new appointment system. Time for leadership and a new petition!
Maybe y'all need a new venue other than Funny-Facebook. Good to see a good attraction here on 'Port Trucker'.
Follow The O/O Initiative: have your fellow trucking community drivers come on to the forum.
Sign-up drivers. Join the discussion. Be counted. Strength in numbers, voiced as one. Unity!
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Post by jimmie m on Jun 3, 2014 18:52:53 GMT -5
i've been in this port trucking business for twenty years. appointment times have been tried repeatedly. this is just a load of crap. trucking doesn't operate well under appointment times and trying to operate port trucking is insane. after the first couple hours the appointment system fails and chaos resumes. why does virginia port management feel they must repeat the same mistakes everyone else has abandoned.
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Post by FUSION on Jun 4, 2014 10:13:27 GMT -5
www.facebook.com/events/230724417126315/They (VIT) has a follow-up meeting for the public on the subject of appt. system. Attend & get a head count to this next meeting. It has to be one for Funny-Facebook.
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Post by truckerusa on Jun 4, 2014 22:19:01 GMT -5
We have never had any success with meeting with port managers. They are always good for a chat but lacking on worthwhile results. As long as their bottom line looks good they just go through the motions acting like they were interested in our problems at the time. It's funny-they always act like it news to them every time we had a problem. When they say we will check right into that-don't hold your breath.
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Post by FUSION on Jun 5, 2014 8:28:24 GMT -5
I could only concur. You must've attended the meeting. I bet you were one of maybe less than 30 drivers in attend I estimated from Funny-Facebook. Sad. But I'll leave y'all with this...
Follow The O/O Initiative: have your fellow trucking community drivers come on to the forum.
Sign-up drivers. Join the discussion. Be counted. Strength in numbers, voiced as one. Unity!
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Post by twistlock on Jun 7, 2014 6:01:39 GMT -5
The port has delt with many drivers associations in the past. They will probably wait this one out as well. Management knows all to well how to play the game. These people make a fat weekly pay check to defuse situations under their control.
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Post by gatepass on Jun 7, 2014 15:34:32 GMT -5
snow job drivr. that is what vit gives va truckrs. i have been hailing outa this virginia port since 1987. a few new players . same ol stinkin slop. the truckin companys and port control this show. when meetings get five hunder strong is when they may admit we have a problem.until then do not expect much. they are experst at snow job.
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Post by FUSION on Jun 8, 2014 4:44:56 GMT -5
CONTROL is the key word, twistlock. When drivers seat in on a 'snow job' and it get national attention like posting it on Funny-Facebook, well you do the math. 500 is achievable if drivers pay more attention to the message(s). I don't think that the way it is spelled on Funny-Facebook and with what is being said at the meetings can you attract drivers interest. Serious petitions directed at the so-call Task Force, the hierarchy at management and a copy to the news media is one way we might get their attention. Striking, as some have said can not be possible without organization and a process. Twenty seven years is a long time to wait for something or someone to make a change. Participated in adult discussions (Not on Funny-Facebook) if it means that much to you and the individuals that are so-call independent-contracted drivers. Business comes at price if you want to succeed. THINK Drivers. Get serious...
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Post by citytruck on Jun 8, 2014 5:31:33 GMT -5
the teamsters want us to be employees according to what i am hearing. no more independent trucker. they want everyone driving a company owned truck. maybe that's fine for some but i am not interested in any of that garbage. i want to see better freight rates centered around port hauling. i make a decent living at moving boxes as an independent contractor but it could be better. if the majority of goofballs we work with understand what it cost to run their own truck they wouldn't be working so cheap. look around at how many that are moving containers for next to nothing. everybody knows who they are. they don't last more then a few months or a year but make it bad for the rest of us before they go under.
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Post by billy jack on Jun 8, 2014 19:51:36 GMT -5
that will not happen.sounds like communism.teamsters suck.
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Post by FUSION on Jun 9, 2014 7:28:47 GMT -5
citytruck & billy jack, you both need assistance from FTBT. For Truckers By Truckers is an organization to improve driver livelihood among individuals with a common interest. Mission: For Truckers By Truckers mission is provide a Platform for the Trucking industry to communicate, and resolve issues through comprehensive action. Our vision is to empower Professional drivers with the knowledge & support necessary to increase revenue and sustain their equipment. Email: Fortruckersbytruckers757@gmail.com Website: www.facebook.com/fortruckersbytruckersP.S. Let me know how you make out. |
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Post by john g on Jun 11, 2014 14:30:34 GMT -5
hey driver. good luck with that. i hope this group is not advertising for the teamsters union? that's a load of crap. we wasted valuable time with them a few years back. that won't happen now. their union leadership had a totally different agenda in mind for truckers working out of the ports. these people do not care what the problems are for owner*operator truckers. they informed us that independent truckers were not included in their big plan. we never did hear what that big plan was. i don't think anyone much cared. we figured it was really a scheme to collect membership money from drivers who joined. i haven't heard much out of them lately. it's about time for them to pop up at another port. hold on to your wallet!
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Post by FUSION on Jun 12, 2014 6:18:29 GMT -5
I know that Funny-Facebook can be a little bit humorous, teamster union intend I don't think so. The problems I see is leadership which is currently self-aggrandizing and is inexperience to delivery a message of empowerment. Using the message of the port management is NOT what the trucking community expects. There's a disconnect and wonderment when you use management's message instead of listening to the trucking community who is at the disadvantage of more rules for entry into the ports. It equates to truck drivers doing more free labor. Funny-Facebook groupie's are forgetting the 'Vancouver strike'. Hence, the disconnect. Stay tune drivers, it seem that drivers are paying more attention and voicing an good discussion here on Port Trucker forum. Passion and serious debates are going to inform drivers to make-up their minds, then being facetious and self-aggrandizing. No message vs. a healthy discussion leading to action.
Join the discussion. Be counted. Strength in numbers, voiced as one. Unity!
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Post by Nightshift on Jun 12, 2014 21:37:11 GMT -5
Teamsters are pretty sneaky. You had better keep eye on what they are up to. The Teamsters do not want independent truckers to succeed in business. I know several drivers who said they went to a meeting and were very disappointed by the attitude of the organizers. Teamster organizers knew very little about our business yet they are trying to run us out of the ports with this employee issue. I do not trust any of them to do the right thing. We are better off form our own association. Maybe that should be discussed on here.
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Post by oboy@ivorva on Jun 13, 2014 16:25:32 GMT -5
I haven't attended a meeting in Norfolk since the last group pumped everyone up then cleaned our clock. I'm not saying anyone here would do that. I guess I'm just burned out with driver meetings at present. When they start talking about holding meetings with port management or forming a task force with them that's scary. Time will tell but I'm waiting a while longer to see if this is gonna implode as in past Hampton Roads driver associations. What happened to all those guys on here who in the past had some lively outlaw organizations. I believe it doesn't hurt to kick some butt from time to time right or wrong. Give the waterfront something to consider if the trucks really stopped moving the cargo for a couple weeks.
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Post by FUSION on Jun 19, 2014 6:26:04 GMT -5
ATTENTION***
THE NEXT FTBT MEETING IS SET FOR SATURDAY JUNE 28TH AT THE IRON WORKERS HALL 5307 E. VA BEACH BLVD, NORFOLK 8AM- 10AM
--PLEASE BRING DRIVER ID (not TWIC).
ILA AND CBP WILL BE ON HAND TO ADDRESS PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS CONCERNS AND QUESTIONS. TELL A DRIVER, BRING A DRIVER!! — at Iron Workers Local Union 79.
Guess who is coming to your next meeting. Dam, you can't get anymore obvious on your agenda than this. More puppet and puppeteers is what it seems is the theme.
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Post by goldfish on Jun 19, 2014 16:43:05 GMT -5
i want to ask ila how much FREE work they do at the docks! what, no FREE work? you mean only vit and trucking companies expect us to work for FREE? is there something about trucks that allows everyone to demand we donate time for FREE?
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Post by FUSION on Jun 20, 2014 20:08:57 GMT -5
Expecting an answer is like a chicken little moment, when it comes you will know it. Free is already understood by many drivers. What you, goldfish in a big pond is that you don't have to do it. Are you one of those drivers who is afraid to refuse to go to port when they request it of you?
Think drivers, why would you want to go to the ports when the average time is over two hours. Do the math. It's cheaper to lose the dray then lose the time. Think!
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