Stock Up On Food Now... Major Strike In The Works.

[Yes We Did]

I was talking to some truck drivers today and the told me that there is a major strike in the works.

They are trying to get all the truck drivers to go on strike on April 3.

With Diesel prices as high as they are, they just aren't making enough money. If you have ever driven a truck, you know the kind of hours they put in for the pay they get.

NO, I don't have any links for you. Sorry, like I said this is just what I have heard.

However, if it does happen, keep in mind that EVERYTHING in this country gets shipped on a truck. No truck= No deliveries.

How long can your grocery store run with no deliveries? Especially after this hits the news?

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. I've lived through this before. Welcome to bad times n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Thanks, as is I need to stock up on canned goods anyway

[Fresh_Start]

3. know your farmers markets

thank goodness ours reopened last week after a winter hiatus

[niyad]

7. farmers' market doesn't open til third week in june (we have a VERY

short growing season

[Mnemosyne]

4. No wonder, diesel @ $4.47 one place here today. NW PA. n/t

[sarcasmo]

5. None to worry, this is from an ex truck driver. Truckers only bitch about stuff and it would

SHOCK me if they could organize. There aren't to many union firms, and many independent contractors can't stop their trucks and hope the tooth fair pays their truck note. I remember when I owned a truck in the 90's for Robert's Express which was bought out by Fed Ex, there was talk about a strike nothing every happened.
In a way it would be a good thing, three days of no trucks would make America wake up and realize the work these guys do.

[alfredo]

15. A slowdown would be more likely. Trucks traveling at 20 mph, side by

side on an interstate would get a lot of attention.

[Speck Tater]

6. I could go 6 months without stepping out my front door.

Getting the spring garden in, and there's plenty of grains and dried beans and other staples in the pantry. The cats might get a little hungry, but there's lots of mice in the orchard.

[Agony]

8. Time to ALL go on strike! National Strike! April 3rd! Calling all patriots!

Start the rumor...

Shut the place down, call for impeachment. Call for a complete and total end to war profiteering.

National Stop-Loss. No more war unless we are all on a wartime footing.

Agony

(funny thing is...i've been thinking about this all week) I'm sick of this crap

[buff2]

9. Thanks for posting this

I believe it will happen. Maybe the truckers will succeed in bringing the gas prices down. God bless them. :hi:

[HockeyMom]

10. Become a vegan?

How are we going to get any meat?

[cornermouse]

12. You aren't going to get any veggies either.

And unless you live in the deep south, ain't nuthin growin' outside yet.

[rucky]

11. Find a CSA

pronto...

www.localharvest.org

[Ikonoklast]

13. There will be no 'strike'

There is nothing to 'strike' against. High fuel prices? Low freight rates? This same old stuff goes around every time there is a spike in fuel prices, and never gets any traction.

About ten percent of all truckers are independents, and they are the only ones able to stop driving without losing their jobs. Everyone else has to show up for work, union or not, or be terminated.

I have reconciled myself to the fact that I won't move my truck for less than $2.00 a mile, including deadhead, or $3.00 a mile for every loaded mile. When you are burning diesel at the rate of $.85 a mile before you made a penny of profit, it won't take long before you go broke running brokered freight that only pays $1.25 a mile, or less.

I sat home for three weeks in February. I'll sit home until someone needs their stuff moved bad enough, and the bottom-feeders are run out of business.

It can only take a month to go broke with fuel over $4.00 a gallon, and your total truck expenses exceed your gross revenue by a factor of 105%.

The real problem with the price of food will be the crop input and harvesting costs by farmers, all done with diesel-powered equipment; fertilizer and pesticides that are made from natural gas and petroleum;, and the costs of shipping the raw materials to food processing plants, then to wholesalers, finally to the retail level.

All done with diesel fuel.

[appleannie1]

14. Hope it happens and enough other workers

back them by not going to work until gas prices come down.