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belpre122 · #1 10-26-2009, 05:18 AM

Dan Rather Reports Trucking Controversy

Anybody that has an interest in trucking should most definitely take the time to watch this video. If you are a newbie, this is an excellent introduction to what you are getting into. I'm sure that the seasoned vets around here will also enjoy this report by Dan Rather.

If this has already been posted, my bad. Actually, this report is so relevant that it probably deserves a double posting anyways................

Enjoy!
Gary

-FlyByNight- · #2 10-26-2009, 06:23 AM

This "seasoned vet" really enjoyed watching that. Not only did it make me think back remembering, but reevaluate my life out here NOW. Thanks for posting this. =)

BigWheels · #3 10-26-2009, 11:36 AM

Definitely worth watching.

Makes you think about how you got into trucking as well as who might be driving the rig next to you!

Syncrosonix · #4 10-26-2009, 02:36 PM

the otr apologists will come in and slam dan rather. i don't really care for him. however, there was no bias in that piece. it was fair and balanced. it wasn't a rip into the real professionals. it was a piece ripping into the bad apples within the industry.

belpre122 · #5 10-26-2009, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Syncrosonix

the otr apologists will come in and slam dan rather. i don't really care for him. however, there was no bias in that piece. it was fair and balanced. it wasn't a rip into the real professionals. it was a piece ripping into the bad apples within the industry.

Yeah, the apologists will be arriving any time Syncro. They've been unusually quiet lately though. After that excellent piece about Swift a couple of weeks ago, then another excellently crafted objective expose like this one. They (the piece-rate OTR apologists) are really on the ropes. GMAN has been thunderously silent for a while now. I'm a bit worried about the old boy. Or perhaps, he is finally seeing the light after all of these years of disinformation. These reports remind me of CFM. All CFM ever did was espouse these same exact truths. It was just his style and uncanny method of putting the truth right up in the apologist's faces that got him banned numerous times.

I wonder how the apologists respond to this line from the video? Touche'!!

".......for every 100 new drivers hired. A recent study funded by an industry organization found an astounding 97 were no longer on the company's payroll a year later."

I love these reports from 3rd party sources that back up everything that a few of us have been bellowing for years now. I hate the fact that my fellow drivers are the ones suffering from these abuses.

golfhobo · #6 10-26-2009, 03:55 PM

Belpre said:

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I hate the fact that my fellow drivers are the ones suffering from these abuses.

Hey bel.... does that mean you've come out of retirement up there in the frozen North?? Back to driving again?

I enjoyed the video. Sure makes me glad that I got into the REAL world of OTR trucking.... not the crap the Mega's sell.

RostyC · #7 10-26-2009, 05:24 PM

Don't mean to be a dummy here but I can't find the video through your link Bel.

I see the DAC video and the Jason law video but can't find the Rather video.

belpre122 · #8 10-26-2009, 05:56 PM

Hey Rosty........I checked the link again and the Rather video is right under the DAC video. Maybe try another browser?

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Originally Posted by golfhobo

Belpre said:

Hey bel.... does that mean you've come out of retirement up there in the frozen North?? Back to driving again?

I enjoyed the video. Sure makes me glad that I got into the REAL world of OTR trucking.... not the crap the Mega's sell.

Heh heh. Negatory oh Hobo! Still at my weather gig at the airport. I'll always consider all of you family though........a dysfunctional unit for sure......but I grudgingly confess to missing all of you when I don't come around............:smokin: Some more than others! LOL Heck Hobo. I thought after watching that video that you would want to get together and team in one of dem dar purty gold trucks!:clap:

Mackman · #9 10-27-2009, 12:02 AM

Good post.

More of a reason why i stay local. But to all you guys that can put up with that BS my hat is off to you.

cdswans · #10 10-27-2009, 12:36 AM

Nice job, Detective Belpre!

I looked for that video after I read a rebuttal, here . .

TheTrucker.com - America's Trucking Newspaper

. . that branded the story as hogwash. Danno barely scratched the surface of the routine abuses perpetrated by the megas and the even more unscrupulous single and small fleet owners. In fact, I have to rate the story "limp wristed" for the really heinous stuff that never got a mention. He says they'll be a follow up and, hopefully, it will include some of the stuff I'll be forwarding to him.