container trucking is ugly in south carolina

[tyson]

man what happened to past unity among port truck drivers at this port? over the last few years charleston truckers have changed for the worse. remember we used to stand up for each other not so long ago. now what i see everyday is everyone for them self. i am looking for something else to do with my truck. i dont see container trucking getting any better in carolina. i thought when things started to pick back up we would see better trucking rates but that is not the case. the rates are getting worse! these intermodal companies know exactly what they can get charleston drivers to work for. cheap,cheap,cheap. i give up finding any decent money to be made trucking at the sc port. truckers who are purchasing late model trucks to move containers must be on drugs. if you run your truck 24-7 into the ground without any breakdowns you may make it moving these cans but that is the only way. this fresh supply of newbies buying trucks who continue to support the trucking companies greed seems to never end in this city. i am seriously looking at another line of work with or without my truck. it doesnt matter any more what kind of work just as long as i can make some good money because it certainly is not going to happen pulling containers.

[circleback]

i don't know driver. everything died a slow death around this harbor except the airwaves. cb bs is for chumps. i have been listening to the action in savannah. we better start paying more attention to what's up down there. you may not have a trucking choice the way i see it. i don't like what i hear is going down with the teamsters. i told everyone we should have joined the longshoremen when had the chance. that has long expired.

[peterbuilt500]

NY/NJ trucker no different up here we must unite if your options are as bleak as ours shut down the PORTS. They make the money we generate. The newbies won't last and if they do they will be as tired and drained as we are. The industry won't sustain itself long enough for them to learn the business for lack of a better term we need a Mexican standoff. One month no cans in or out. The world will hear and feel us! At least your Longshoremen offered the help to you our are the enemy. They live off our backs.

[Gary46]

sc port doesn't give a crap about truckers. do any of them? no .think not.

[t johnson]

we have same problems here. time to take a stand. is anyone willing to meet?

[FUSION]

The tree of liberty... (Quotation, revised). What industry ever existed without a rebellion? And what industry can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure". (re-posted from 3/21/14)

Did you NOT hear or read: The (recent Vancouver truckers) strike served as the flashpoint of an emerging drayage crisis that’s adding hundreds of millions of dollars to shipping costs and threatening the growth of intermodal commerce.

There’s no quick fix for that delivery process, in part because so many parties have a say or a role in how containers flow from ships through ports to inland destinations. Any solution to the drayage problem will require cooperation among terminal operators, longshore labor, chassis suppliers, container lines and shippers as well as drayage companies and truck drivers. And those parties will have to be open to new ways of doing business and new technology.

www.longshoreshippingnews.com/2014/04/joc-series-paints-picture-of-drayage-crisis/

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