Truckers Boycotting NYC starting this Monday.

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Not trying to be negative It sounds great but won't do anything.

Company drivers won't refuse to go to NYC or they will get fired.

Independent operators probably many already avoid NYC and the ones who don't maybe some will avoid NYC. They make up a smaller % of the deliveries.

It sounds great, it's a feel good story but in reality it won't change much and I doubt will be noticed.

If they had more balls they should setup a gridlock blockade of bridges into and out of the city but they know the government will crush them and they don't want to end up in prison or having their house foreclosed because they're in jail unable to work

 

[meketrefe]

my prediction ...
Year: 2035
NYC population: 5 (Including unusually large rats)

 

[Cavalry]

Here we are well into the first day, has NYC seen any appreciable decline in deliveries?

 

[stokes]

my prediction ...
Year: 2035
NYC population: 5 (Including unusually large rats)

But everybody will have battery operated ovens and cars, there will be no gas stations and their climate goals will be met, zero carbon foot print. Go dems! But with zero carbon the plants and trees will die and the lack of oxygen will be blamed on Trump.

 

[Willyone]

But everybody will have battery operated ovens and cars, there will be no gas stations and their climate goals will be met, zero carbon foot print. Go dems! But with zero carbon the plants and trees will die and the lack of oxygen will be blamed on Trump.

People will die too, dems have been out to cull the herd.

 

[Podmonkey]

That is basically like boycotting getting kicked in the balls
Nobody wants to drive a truck into a vehicular insane asylum like NYC to begin with.
Many drivers including myself already refuse NYC loads on general principle.

 

[Defilade]

 

[dsdmmat]

Won’t make a difference unless they include Albany

 

[REF]

This is now effecting me and my company. Was supposed to have a tractor trailer to me at 7am at my job site to load out our scaffolding for delivery back to the shop. Was just contacted by the trucking company that this boycott has caused them to not get to me before noon if at all. Shit definitely flows down hill

 

[stokes]

This is now effecting me and my company. Was supposed to have a tractor trailer to me at 7am at my job site to load out our scaffolding for delivery back to the shop. Was just contacted by the trucking company that this boycott has caused them to not get to me before noon if at all. Shit definitely flows down hill

Or maybe the trucking company is hosing you and using the "boycott" as a convenient excuse?

 

[REF]

Or maybe the trucking company is hosing you and using the "boycott" as a convenient excuse?

With my experience with trucking companies, this is completely possible

 

[Podmonkey]

With my experience with trucking companies, this is completely possible

The logic and reasoning of the CSRs and dispatch are a mystery to the drivers as well.
Once I was picking up a load in Charleroi PA along with my fellow driver from the same home yard. We were directed to drop at one of our many yards in Hunker east of Charleroi and that we did. After 20 minutes of waiting after the drop in Hunker we received dispatches for what turned out to be each other's trailers that we were to drop in our home yard in Somerset east of Hunker. Upon our arrival call in Somerset we received dispatches for each other's trailers once again to be taken for delivery the next morning in Greencastle PA. Go figure.

 

[Acer-m14]

 

[meketrefe]

But everybody will have battery operated ovens and cars, there will be no gas stations and their climate goals will be met, zero carbon foot print. Go dems! But with zero carbon the plants and trees will die and the lack of oxygen will be blamed on Trump.

We will make electric cars, batteries, ovens and all the massive energy they need out of ferry dust and unicorn farts.

 

[Robin]

I hope there is some measure of success in the trucker boycott, but without big media support I won't get leg's.
This on the other hand, even without media support will cripple that rotten apple and the tree that it grows on.

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Robin

 

[Cavalry]

I have nothing to compare it to but if one looks at the tappan zee webcam there is certainly no lack of truck traffic. Seems like a nothing burger.

 

[Podmonkey]

I have nothing to compare it to but if one looks at the tappan zee webcam there is certainly no lack of truck traffic. Seems like a nothing burger.

That's kind of a silly conclusion given that the Tappan Zee lay along a route commonly used to bypass NYC on the way to points further north east.

 

[Bigfoot]

Is it happening?

 

[Saltwater60]

Nothing will happen. I get truck deliveries from JFK regularly. Drivers 99% of the time some sort of non English speaking immigrant typically from Africa or eastern Europe. These people do not care about our politics.
Sidenote-Watching them back up to a loading dock is the best entertainment one can have, they must be giving CDL's out free admission to the country,.

When I worked at a plant in Buffalo 5-10 years ago this was mostly true and I’m sure it’s worse now and it’s worse in the nyc area. I said it above they don’t care and will take the load for extra cash. They don’t care about the loads either. I had one load come in warm by like 30 degrees because the guy shut off the refer into to save money. He begged me to take it so he wouldn’t get fired. I kept saying I can’t, I can’t, I can’t. Finally I got sick of him asking and said if I take it I’ll get fired and if anyone’s getting fired it won’t be me good bye.

 

[Podmonkey]

When I worked at a plant in Buffalo 5-10 years ago this was mostly true and I’m sure it’s worse now and it’s worse in the nyc area. I said it above they don’t care and will take the load for extra cash. They don’t care about the loads either. I had one load come in warm by like 30 degrees because the guy shut off the refer into to save money. He begged me to take it so he wouldn’t get fired. I kept saying I can’t, I can’t, I can’t. Finally I got sick of him asking and said if I take it I’ll get fired and if anyone’s getting fired it won’t be me good bye.

Possibility of getting fired means he was working for a company. Working for a company means the company pays for the fuel and not the driver. Why would the driver therefore be shutting off the reefer to "save money". That fuel cost isn't coming out of his end so he shouldn't care how much fuel that reefer burns.
An owner-op is self employed, more or less depending, so getting fired isn't a thing, going tits up due to fiscal mismanagement certainly could be though.
Even if a company has some kind of fuel incentive bonus the reefer fuel use wouldn't factor into that. Something about your story isn't quite adding up.
Most folks outside the industry don't really understand how the trucking business works.

 

[4WHLDRFTN]

 

[Mr. terzmo]

If there are no trucks,can the truck hijackers apply for unemployment food stamps..heap..and the rest?

 

[Cavalry]

That's kind of a silly conclusion given that the Tappan Zee lay along a route commonly used to bypass NYC on the way to points further north east.

My mistake

How about the george washington?

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

Simply cut off shipments of coffee goods. That will get peoples attention. Now. What would the equivalent of this be for gun rights? I can't think of any that would be effective.

 

[spat]

Back when union's had power, scabs and companies that employed them during a strike would find themselves suddenly very unlucky.

For this to work the same sort of thing would have to happen to the truckers who ignored the boycott.

Wouldn't take much. Maybe a few stations with contaminated diesel or something.

 

[cedmer]

does this mean no truck deliveries of illegals to NYC now?

 

[stokes]

Back when union's had power, scabs and companies that employed them during a strike would find themselves suddenly very unlucky.

For this to work the same sort of thing would have to happen to the truckers who ignored the boycott.

Wouldn't take much. Maybe a few stations with contaminated diesel or something.

Like I said earlier, we need Jimmy Hoffa again.

 

[pshift]

It's not going to work. They will just hire migrants. Have you taken a good look as to who is behind the big rigs lately?

 

[Cavalry]

Maybe they meant next Monday it was going to start?

 

[Kwalsh]

It seems if I had to guess the people not driving to the city are the truckers who wouldn’t go to the city normally, has anyone seen the truck drivers in the city, all foreign and driving shit trucks from depots outside the city