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That is what is wrong with this country now, it is all the I,I's and ME, ME's.
Actually, it's all about poor decisions being made day in and day out by thousands and thousands of owner operators.
I will side with Mike on this one. Why should he be asked to sacrifice his good business for the sake of others than did not have the foresight to run their own business correctly. Sure, fuel is high...so his 4-wheeler juice. But for every person/driver complaining about not making it, there are a hundred others that are doing just fine.
There won't be a strike...just more of the same pointless yammering and nothing will ever be done. You want to make a difference? Run compliant. Run the speed limit. Don't haul cheap freight. That's the key right there, but most of the owner operators out there won't allow themselves to see it. They'll blow down the road doing 80 from truck stop to truck stop and whine about fuel in between cherry machine pulls. Then they'll spend 10 hours in their truck in the parking lot in 70 degree whether, idling the entire time. That's where the problem is. Unfortunately, it's not a fixable problem.
So as Fozzy says...same poop, different day.