* Georgia - Truckers, it's time to unite the entire east coast
-- This port transportation business has completely gotten out of control. Shares of intermodal management today are much more cruel than organized crime. Forcing truckers to play by the rules impossible while working for the lowest rates anywhere within the trucking industry is breaking labor, inhumane, reckless laws and in many cases considered theft by deception... This intermodal system that has ruined thousands of truckers in the ports along the Atlantic is broken. Unfortunately, there is only enough money to pay decent money truckers. The ports are in a position to ensure that this madness to an end sets. They are controlling owners or rental property. They can enforce rules and regulations that protect the small contractor fraud and abuse by unscrupulous sellers (trucking companies) that are authorized to operate in the terminal... That's just one way in which this system can be changed. There are many others. For your information, drivers: Did you know that there are 100 times more truckers working in East ports of all members of the International Longshoremen's Association? The hourly wage of a longshoreman experienced under the union contract newest in the ports of the East Coast of the United States is $ 35 per hour, with wages of newcomers from $ 20. The total remuneration a longshoreman, however, includes benefits equivalent to 24 percent of the hourly wage and a bonus for each cargo container working. Bonuses and benefits drive the potential compensation per hour to $ 44.20 per hour or $ 91,998 per year for a longshoreman who works 40 hours a week, not counting overtime. Make it brings a lunch box to work done with an investment of $ 30,000 to $ 100,000 in a truck to move these smelly bins!... Why not give management industry something to really think about this year? Organize like you mean business! In mid-summer, as peak load Christmas holiday season is being prepared, it may well be an excellent time to flex some muscle. Can you do that? Want to do that? ... No, face it, truckers, you are all alone. You're going to have to figure a way to organize yourself. It's time to continue going the same route that has already proven disastrous for many years, or find a way to outsmart this broken system. The steamship industry has no intention of making any changes as long as it doesn't hurt them the way it’s hurting thousands of you... There are ways to make this happen but it will take strength in numbers. It takes unity among truckers at major East Coast ports. One port or two ports will not make it happen. So you decide. Do you want to continue until you can go no more, or do you have what it takes to join a real movement with others who do the same work you do? One way to look at it is, "Where do I want to be three years from now?" I hope this helps some of you decide what's best for you and your family!...
(Photo: Port at Savannah, Ga., USA) -- Savannah,GA,USA - J.O.C. by Jim Stewart, a longtime trucker - 19 March 2015Labels: truckers complaints
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