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TruckerChris
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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Location: Sacramento, California
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject: Are you a member of OOIDA? |
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VOTE!
Oh, I'm a member. |
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Rev.Vassago
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
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Location: Green Bay, WI
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I wasn't a member the last time one of these threads came along, and I won't be one the next time one comes along. :wink: |
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madpuppy
Joined: 28 Mar 2007
Posts: 136
Location: Ca.
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: OOIDA |
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| :D No, but I do get Landline every month and enjoy it very much. 8) |
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lucky13
Joined: 05 Apr 2007
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Location: delievering pizza for UPS.
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| I will not give oida any of my money,one rule and regulation is passed after another to make trucking difficult and not even a fight out of our so called backers at oida!! They have no lobbying power to change things like split speed limits and lane restrictions and the biggest worry of all; Mexican truckers in the USA it wont be long before they are doing work from city to city in the USA just like the Canadian truckers now do. And were will oida be? |
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poorboy126
Joined: 03 Dec 2006
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Location: Englewood,Florida
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| lucky13 you need to read a Landline issue front to back before you make another retarded statement like you just did. OOIDA is one of the last places we have that cares about our future. ATA is nothing more then over paid trucking company owners who say what the politians tell them to. And lucky13 its spelled OOIDA, not oida. Ok I said my peace and I'm done. |
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Fozzy
Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not a member of the OOIDA, don't care about split speed limits, don't care about restricted lanes and don't really care about the Mexican drivers... |
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Mackman
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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Location: Concordville PA
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Fozzy wrote: don't really care about the Mexican drivers...
If you dont care now you will later. |
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BigDiesel
Joined: 01 Apr 2007
Posts: 922
Location: Space... The Final Frontier
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| OOIDA........ What a JOKE of an organization. |
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Fozzy
Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: |
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Mackman wrote: Fozzy wrote: don't really care about the Mexican drivers...
If you dont care now you will later.
Really? how so? Will they flood the market and take over like the Canadians did? :roll: Again there are people trying to mis illegal immigration and the Mexican nationals who will be driving trucks here..
P.S. the sky is falling the sky is falling! :roll: |
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countryhorseman
Joined: 04 Jan 2005
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Location: The Great State of Texas - Seguin
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 8:37 am Post subject: |
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Fozzy wrote: I'm not a member of the OOIDA, don't care about split speed limits, don't care about restricted lanes and don't really care about the Mexican drivers...
You must be a four wheel steering wheel jockey then!! |
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Fozzy
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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countryhorseman wrote: Fozzy wrote: I'm not a member of the OOIDA, don't care about split speed limits, don't care about restricted lanes and don't really care about the Mexican drivers...
You must be a four wheel steering wheel jockey then!!
Why, just because I'm not some ignorant reactionary? |
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WildK9
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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Location: Lewisville, Texas
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| OOIDA was responsible for the parking area east of kansas city. :roll: :P :lol: |
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lucky13
Joined: 05 Apr 2007
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| WildK9 wrote: OOIDA was responsible for the parking area east of kansas city. :roll: :P :lol: Wow a parking area all that money they take in,what about fighting for better parking in places like the northeast said it once and will say it again OOIDA is a joke!!! They like to talk a good game like they care but as usual they fail yet again to get anything done but they want our money. |
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WildK9
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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Location: Lewisville, Texas
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lucky13 wrote: WildK9 wrote: OOIDA was responsible for the parking area east of kansas city. :roll: :P :lol: Wow a parking area all that money they take in,what about fighting for better parking in places like the northeast said it once and will say it again OOIDA is a joke!!! They like to talk a good game like they care but as usual they fail yet again to get anything done but they want our money.
exactly!
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countryhorseman
Joined: 04 Jan 2005
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Location: The Great State of Texas - Seguin
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Fozzy wrote: countryhorseman wrote: Fozzy wrote: I'm not a member of the OOIDA, don't care about split speed limits, don't care about restricted lanes and don't really care about the Mexican drivers...
You must be a four wheel steering wheel jockey then!!
Why, just because I'm not some ignorant reactionary?
Well, thanks to a group led by OOIDA, many in the U.S. Senate and the Legislature had their eyes opened to the dangers of opening the southern border to the Mexican based trucks. Which led to a postponement of the border opening. Thanks to OOIDA, DAC has changed some of there policies in accepting reporting (black listing) drivers (of course there is still a case pending with DAC), Because of OOIDA, hundreds, maybe thousands, of drivers have received moneys due to them by the unreputable practices of several companies, because of OOIDA there is an ongoing challenge of the current HOS - in an attempt to bring some balance between safety and drivers rest, and the list goes on.
Down here in South Texas, up to the current trade zone, many of us already have to deal with Mexican based trucks and drivers, that cannot read or speak English, that have no method of accounting for how long they have been driving or on-duty, that have no safety accountablility for the equipment that they are driving. Just last week in Laredo, I followed a loaded Mexican truck - and you can bet I made a phone call to TXDOT:
1. This guy was driving 35mph in a 70
2. 1 brake chamber on the front tandem was hanging from the air line
3. Brake chamber on the rear tandem was completely missing, the line had been pinched off with vise grips (visible from behind)
4. No Brake lights
And I am sure the list goes on. DOT finally stopped this truck going north bound on I35 at the 17 mile marker. As I past this guy, I noticed the drivers door was held closed by a bungee. The tractor appeared to be a early to mid '70's cab-over, could not tell what make.
Although this could possibly be a worst case scenario, imagine a truck at even half the visible defects passing through OK City, Tulsa or any other town in your home state.
I am sure that since you state OOIDA does nothing, I must have assumed you were not a professional driver that keeps up with trucking issues that effect not only us drivers, but the entire economy as a whole.
Just my opionion and thoughts,
Thank You,
Louis\ |
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