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AGAINST TRUCKERS' STRIKE * USA
* Shutdown talk heats up; OOIDA flooded with calls
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Coral Beach -27 Mar 2008: -- From the Atlantic to the Pacific the price of diesel is topping $4 a gallon, and truckers across the country are running not only out of money, but also out of patience... Talk of American truckers possibly staging a shutdown is being reported around the world. In France, Agence France-Presse picked up a news story out of Indiana about how truckers in that Midwestern state are comparing the current fuel crisis to the early 1970s... Jim Johnston, OOIDA’s president and CEO and one of its founders, also remembers the desperate days of the 1970s. He said today that even though federal law prohibits OOIDA from calling for a strike because it is a trade association, OOIDA will always do its best to represent the interest of its members whether they are running or shutdown because of a lack of compensating revenue... With the economic situation is expected to take some time to resolve, OOIDA is encouraging its members and other individual truckers to take every action they can to take control of their individual business operations to ensure their futures... Johnston said that he and OOIDA staff are upset and frustrated and active on this issue...
* Small-business trucker understands frustration, but won’t join shutdown
Siloam Springs,AR,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -March 27, 2008: -- ... Carol Edwards of Brookhaven Transportation Inc. she said, “everyone she knows” is talking about the shutdown, Edwards said none of the truckers she personally knows are going to participate... She and her husband, Steve, who are both OOIDA members, have been involved in the trucking industry since 1980. They live in Siloam Springs, AR. Steve drives, and the Edwards also have four owner-operators leased to them. The reason Edwards said her husband’s not participating is because he doesn’t think it will work...
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