Comments on: Roadcast #5 Fuel Taxes and Truck Strikes http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/12/09/roadcast-5-fuel-taxes-and-truck-strikes/455.html Discussion and opinions about the trucking industry Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:15:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: E. Phil Haley http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/12/09/roadcast-5-fuel-taxes-and-truck-strikes/455.html/comment-page-1/#comment-821 E. Phil Haley Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:51:44 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/12/09/roadcast-5-fuel-taxes-and-truck-strikes/455.html#comment-821 Good job, Wayne. I visited Trippish.com and it's a pretty cool site. You're absolutely right, too, regarding the talk of truck "strikes". They haven't produced the hoped for results in the past and they wouldn't now, either. The general public doesn't respond well to a strike whose primary goal is to garner sympathy for a perceived plight. The "give me what I want, or else..." type of strike is generally looked upon in a vein similar to that of a terroristic attack. Grievance based strikes, in which good faith talks are entered into by opposing interests prior to any work stoppage, talks in which well thought out grievances and goals are addressed, have enough problem gaining public support; strikes like those envisioned by drivers during dinnertime dreams, strikes without articulated goal or grievance, only serve to further raise the ire, and squelch the sympathies, of an already skeptical public. Good job, Wayne. I visited Trippish.com and it’s a pretty cool site. You’re absolutely right, too, regarding the talk of truck “strikes”. They haven’t produced the hoped for results in the past and they wouldn’t now, either. The general public doesn’t respond well to a strike whose primary goal is to garner sympathy for a perceived plight.

The “give me what I want, or else…” type of strike is generally looked upon in a vein similar to that of a terroristic attack. Grievance based strikes, in which good faith talks are entered into by opposing interests prior to any work stoppage, talks in which well thought out grievances and goals are addressed, have enough problem gaining public support; strikes like those envisioned by drivers during dinnertime dreams, strikes without articulated goal or grievance, only serve to further raise the ire, and squelch the sympathies, of an already skeptical public.

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