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Post by HardTimeTrucker on Jun 28, 2014 6:54:25 GMT -5
From the Port Trucker board, all the best with the Virginia meeting to be held this morning. Let us know if we can be of any assistance. There are several members here who wish to help truckers at the Virginia ports succeed in their goal. What is good for you is good for every trucker in the east at every seaport. We strongly believe that involvement by truckers own elected leadership in control is the correct route to accomplish what we need to do here in the east. This site does not in any way support the Teamsters union campaign across America from port to port in their current efforts to destroy our system of the owner-operator or independent-trucker-contractor model. There are other avenues that as a group we can be working together on such as finding ways to strengthen the federal leasing laws, educating new drivers on cost of truck ownership, as well as pursuing certain legal actions against trucking companies who constantly steal and abuse the rights of individual truckers.This website was created and continues to be dedicated to the cause of informing , educating, and organizing truckers along the Atlantic coast in their quest toward demanding better working conditions, wages (truck-n-driver) in this industry so take full advantage of using this site to post and spread the word.
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Post by jb on Jun 28, 2014 15:08:38 GMT -5
i d not think they had a big showing of drivers ths morning. I drove by to take my daughter to work and it did not look like much of a crowd at meetng place.
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Post by hpglenn on Jun 29, 2014 21:29:42 GMT -5
there was dockworker leader at meeting.this is new to me. i bought a truck six months ago so i am learning. i came to this driver meeting saturday hoping to hear more about certain problems i face.i am a little confused about their agenda but glad i went anyway.
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Post by mightymouse on Jun 30, 2014 5:41:23 GMT -5
I spent the day take in the bay. Maybe Art can comment.
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Post by lilred on Jun 30, 2014 12:01:24 GMT -5
so what r dockers going do for us? they work like molasses running up hill.why not just shutdown? stop the trucks for five days.
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Post by buddy on Jul 1, 2014 21:05:36 GMT -5
the likelihood of truckers getting a contract like the dockworkers has a slim chance. what does this virgini leadership want. i attended the first couple of meetings but never made clear sense of the direction. now at least it seems i am not the only one.
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Post by FUSION on Jul 4, 2014 9:13:05 GMT -5
I don't believe that was intention Buddy, but it is a perverse way of perception to others. The name For Truckers By Truckers should be only as it implies. No VIT dignitary or especially ILA members and company can direct owner operators and independent contractors out of this mess. The mess being Port Delays and rogue carriers. Education and communication amongst ourselves is key and foremost. HardTimeTrucker articulated above the best, please read. Happy Independence Day Drivers!
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Post by shortcircut on Sept 5, 2014 20:15:18 GMT -5
Maybe one day this so called group will focus soley on organizing driver instead of trying to bring the port management and others into the meetings . as I have said before , "you have to build an army before you start any kind of war " ! Numbers mean power , anything else is just a joke
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Post by FUSION on Sept 6, 2014 22:09:51 GMT -5
Hate to agree, shortcircut but what do you have in mind?
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