ELD Strike in USA next week

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I am surprised no notes in here about the ELD Strike next week in the USA. I heard it was a one week long strike across USA for brokers concerned for their livelihoods with Electronic Logbooks coming into effect in December. Is this true. I am hearding Canadian independent brokers are taking the week off to support it as well.
 
I heard about that march also but they got fighting so bad in the comments it was crazy, that's why they will never get enough people to be effective. Then the leaders will have big belt buckles, with black vests (with a lot of pins in it), a dirty hat and a dirty t-shirt showing they haven't missed a buffet yet and cannot really articulate what they want and wonder why they are not taken seriously.
 
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Reminds me of all the hoopla back in 1989 when logs first came in for Canadian drivers. The sky was going to fall and owner-operators in particluar were going to go bust by the thousands..
 
Freight Broker said:
Reminds me of all the hoopla back in 1989 when logs first came in for Canadian drivers. The sky was going to fall and owner-operators in particluar were going to go bust by the thousands..
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That was pretty much the start of the decline in this industry.

The "hoopla" was being ordered to get the trucks moving or face criminal charges. Personally, in retrospect, it's too bad folks were trusted. The drivers should have known not to trust crooks.

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MikeJr said:
Is everyone finding that there is traction with Canadian carriers in support of this strike?

Keep well,
Mike
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Some traction Mike from what I've read and heard
Mostly with owner operators and individual drivers supporting it and scheduling the time off. I would be shocked to see any carrier 'officially' support it.
 
snafu said:
I have. I remember the JB Hunt trailers being torched and burnt to the ground in Quebec.
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but, that was drivers against one company. I mean stand together like they said they would do to prevent ELDs. Never happened. Like when they changed the HOS. Never happened.
Canadian carriers should start by demanding that US drivers not have the right to do Province to Province moves... but who am I to complain. I'm sure that US drivers do it for much less then the CANADIAN COMPANIES WHO CANNOT DO INTERSTATES. They don't you say! Then how come they are doing it. They aren't helping us improve rates, that's for sure. Just saying
 
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martinetav said:
but, that was drivers against one company. I mean stand together like they said they would do to prevent ELDs. Never happened. Like when they changed the HOS. Never happened.
Canadian carriers should start by demanding that US drivers not have the right to do Province to Province moves... but who am I to complain. I'm sure that US drivers do it for much less then the CANADIAN COMPANIES WHO CANNOT DO INTERSTATES. They don't you say! Then how come they are doing it. They aren't helping us improve rates, that's for sure. Just saying
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Oh I know that U.S. drivers engage in cabotage within Canada.
Proctor and Gamble loads..seen Americans move them within Canada from Brockville to western Canada.
Sadly, governments from both the Conservatives and Liberals chose to ignore it and the MTO couldn't care less.

I think one of the biggest differences martinetav is that back then drivers didn't have the capability of social media to help engage and organize like they do today.

I'm not against ELDs, the industry asked for them. But with them should also come changes to how drivers are paid (hourly) which would even greater improve highway safety
 
snafu said:
Oh I know that U.S. drivers engage in cabotage within Canada.
Proctor and Gamble loads..seen Americans move them within Canada from Brockville to western Canada.
Sadly, governments from both the Conservatives and Liberals chose to ignore it and the MTO couldn't care less.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa there brother ... No one chose to ignore it. It is not illegal for an American truck to move a load from point-to-point in Canada. It is called a re-positioning move and US trucks & drivers are allowed that move provided their prior load was inbound from the US and their next load after the point-to-point is outbound to the US.
You can thank the Federal government and NAFTA for that one.
 
Michael Ludwig said:
Whoa, whoa, whoa there brother ... No one chose to ignore it. It is not illegal for an American truck to move a load from point-to-point in Canada. It is called a re-positioning move and US trucks & drivers are allowed that move provided their prior load was inbound from the US and their next load after the point-to-point is outbound to the US.
You can thank the Federal government and NAFTA for that one.
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Fine...so cabotage err 're-positioning' is legal for Americans in Canada.
How do you think that plays out with INS..down south when a Canadian hauls a load from say.. Los Angeles to Boston to 're-position' a truck.
Interstating/cabotage isn't allowed down south. Canada's government should have the same approach.

Canadian loads should always belong to Canadians.
 
I'm not saying I disagree with you. I'm just telling you what the law says, and who you can thank for the law.
As for how it plays out on the other side of the creek ... you forfeit a $400.00 bond and your driver gets a thorough a$$hole inspection every time he crosses for the next 3 months.
Ask me how I know ...ROFLMAO
 
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