Comments on: Important info or propaganda?

By: Can Teamsters regain credibility? · TransportFool

Can Teamsters regain credibility? · TransportFool — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:20:37 +0000

[...] non-union carriers. It appears to be an effort to regain some of the credibility they lost when the “Damaged When Delivered” report was released. The press release continues the Teamsters pattern of inflammatory statements [...]

By: carhauler1

carhauler1 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:44:54 +0000

Well boys and girls it a new year and same old story waiting for new contracts and I’m amazed how allied taking work from cassens and cassens going after cooper freight and cooper taking cassens freight well how does one compete with the other when they still pay the same wages insurances and other benefits so please explain how they can steal each others business and then give other business to URS and fleet car and others??? I;m tired of hearing everyone calling non-union drivers scabs and cutthroats when the union companies do the same.!!!Please everyone take a deep breath and remember we all have pictures of bad mistakes and we all started some were!! We need to start organizing and get those lazy#@#$%$#&& in D.C. to help us and quit blaming everyone else Hoffa knows we can get stronger with the right kind of leadership and backing from him and his cronies so lets all stick together and make our careers better and our families more secure thanks

By: Jeff Watt

Jeff Watt — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:58:56 +0000

One of the kids spilled something on the keyboard sorry about the misspells.

By: Jeff Watt

Jeff Watt — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:57:05 +0000

bothsides, Thank you all we can do together is try to help each other better our selves and save our industry I hope that we could swap emails and speak on the phone. I will admit the company I was working for lost 10 trucks due to what I bekive was a gready crooked owner that blew sunshine up our shorts. Had to find some thing and landed in the lovely jessup railhead . had the pleasure of listening into Zuckermans tele call last night (well you guys did post the number and codes next to the pepsi machine). dave can you swap our emails? As I sit back and reflect It seems to me like all the big wigs are trying to stir something up to get us to go after each other ? Guys we are a rare bread and need to stick together.Gee this all started over drop pocketts and now look. Stay safe my brother car haulers and good luck to all unoin or not we are a rare breed. We all need to work together not agianst each other that is what is killing us someone somewhere is trying to split us up because if we all stuck together they would not have car one on the lot.

By: Both Sides

Both Sides — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:12:13 +0000

ok, thanks ethan

By: ethan

ethan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:31:18 +0000

the truck was bought from appell equipment in galva illinois

By: ethan

ethan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:29:26 +0000

running under a freinds authority, and im getting all my work off central dispatch, and dealer that i hauled for while working for cooper that i got to know real good. I paid 8 grand for the truck, run back and forth to flordia, set up my own clc account, but only use it about half the time because motel 6 is usually 40 or less after taxes everywhere.

By: Both Sides

Both Sides — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:57:41 +0000

A few coments i made didn’t come across the way i meant them too. I am not trying to say union drivers are better people, on average they have more experience. Not that alot of independant and non union drivers don’t , but you have seen the inexperienced drivers i am talking about. You wouldn’t be on this site if you were not a true carhauler, a lifer. Like they say it gets in your blood. And its not most non union carhaulers hurting the industry its the glorfied tow truck drivers moving cars now.
Second i am not trying to say allied is a great company, by any means. What i mean is all carhaulers should have the same pay and benefits as union drivers. and most don’t. Most rates and drivers wages are loosly based off what the big three( allied,cassens,jack cooper) do. United road has the same blue cross insurance as the union, they got it to keep drivers happy and aviod a union vote a few years back.
The good old days are almost gone, its getting harder and harder to make good money doing this for everyone.
The union put together this propaganda to try to save whats left. It is geared towards consumers who have no idea what a drop pocket or a proper tire strap is. Its propaganda, and to the average person the pictures on that site look bad.

By: Both Sides

Both Sides — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:29:11 +0000

ethan i agree, any union driver could be in your shoes some day. Can i ask where you are leased to and what kind of freight do you get. also where did you buy your truck and what do you have? I am just like to have a backup plan, and its not like any union companies are hiring anymore. I could work here 20 more years or 20 days, who knows anymore.
Jeff Watt, i must tell you for once i agree with you about sleeping in a truck rather than a hotel. I stayed at a real dump last week and thought about going out and sleeping in my daycab. The decent hotel i planned to stay at was full and i was out of hours and tired. The place was so nasty that i put on my shower shoes to shower and used my own towel. I was actually thinking about what you wrote, the 1,000′s of people sleeping in that bed. I really wish i had a sleeper that night for sure.

By: ethan

ethan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:32:35 +0000

GREAT TOPIC EXUNION FIRED BY THE WAY, BOUGHT AN OLD E&L TRUCK AINT MUCH TO LOOK AT BUT IT RUNS I KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT MAKE $$$$$$$$$$$$ SO WTF I DON’T CARE ANYMORE.