The trucking industry is the prime provider for pretty much everything we have and enjoy in our home. If this threat begins to take form, there are preparations that MUST be started NOW. It has elevated to a fever to contact and encourage their counterparts in other States throughout the nation to strike, Nationwide. It is said three Unions have started to react with the drivers and are threatening to strike for lower fuel prices or else. The anger has begun to intensify with drivers and the Truckers Union which is directed towards Federal and Oil Companies.Īugust 17th 2005 a small nucleus of Tanker and Trailer drivers begun to organize in Alabama. One comment was said at a local, "I wonder if the banks have big enough parking lots to hold the repossessions". Has been eating away their truck payments. Even the owner operators will park their rigs and go out and even work at menial jobs just to survive. There have been some severe strikes in years past and the talk is complete shut down. With truckers unions and drivers claiming unreal fuel expenses the unrest and shift is beginning to give birth to a National Truckers Strike. Ĩ8,000 unionized truckers are getting the brunt of fuel costs, the major Truckers Unions and drivers has had about enough of getting ripped off. truckers are advised to watch for signs of terrorist activity (AP).Under pressure, major freight carriers strike early agreements with Teamsters Union. (Fortune, Financial Times, New York Mercantile, Exchange)Ĭonsider this E-mail a WARNING.Truckers unions losing patience with the Federal Government and the U.S. Currently, they're selling oil at almost $70 a barrel, while their cost of producing that barrel is just $1.50. Every independent trucker with whom I have spoken, has stated to me that they will not roll during this time frame, as the Teamsters mean business!!!!Īre you aware American's are considered greedy? - Saudi Arabia 2005 target price for selling oil was $21 a barrel. they know that something is in the making, and don't want to jeopardize either their trucks or personnel during the National Strike. Wal-Mart has announced that their entire fleet of trucks will stop moving good and services effective Tuesday, September 6th. Every Governor of the above mentioned states have asked their citizens to stay at home over the holiday, thus trying to avoid a disaster in the making. just enough to get by during this shortage. These individuals are being allowed only 10 gallons each. This is a serious National emergency!!!! There have already been long gasoline lines in the South this Labor Day weekend, as many with whom I have spoken from that region have stated to me that in some areas of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida, gasoline is already being rationed. Every domestic refinery is producing gasoline and home heating oil at maximum capabilities, and combined with the shut down of the refineries in the Gulf due to the hurricane, along with the inability to pump crude oil from the Gulf region, there will be serious shortages for approximately two months. Because of the hurricane, the lack of new refineries, and the lack of an ingenious national energy policy, these shortages are real and will be exploited by the Teamsters Union. Unlike the contrived oil and gasoline shortages of the early seventies, the US is not in the position of turning open the spigot and allowing the oil and refined products to flow. fill your pantries and autos prior to the eighth of September!!!! Almost everything moves by truck across this country, and it won't take very long for our merchants shelves and gasoline storage tanks to empty resulting in serious shortages in food and fuel. I have no reason to doubt these individuals, as their grapevine is usually accurate, and this poses a serious problem for the Nation at large. They will be protesting the high price of fuel nationwide, and intend to bring the Nation to her knees, as they did in the early seventies. I have spoken with a few independent truckers in the past 24 hours, and they ALL have indicated to me that there will be a nationwide trucker strike by the Teamsters Union & Major Independents commencing between 8 & 12 September 2005.
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