No Police? No Deliveries
- As cities across the country are discussing defunding or disbanding their police departments, truck drivers are voicing concerns of safety. Seventy-seven percent of truck drivers say they will refuse to deliver freight to cities with defunded police departments.
Truck driving is historically ranked as one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. In 2018, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic reported truck driving as the most deadly job in the country.
Truck drivers have spent the last year on the front line of a global pandemic and protests. Now many are fearful of what might happen if police departments disband or are defunded.
Of course, there are always gypsy truckers and mercenaries willing to do anything for a buck, but if the Teamsters could flex their political muscle.....
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Maybe the fire dept will strike on our behalf.
Be interesting. Cities only have approx. three days food. Even if only 20% refuse with the covid shortages.... who knows what'll happen.
But the nation is seeing how stupid leftist are through CHAZ.
"WAH! That's RACIST!"
How many truckers live in the cities like Minneapolis itself? Another problem is a lot of the old line distribution warehouses are in the cities near the rail hubs. More likely they will be given shotgun riders or escorts, and limited to daylight hours. The warehouses themselves? Maybe add more guards, maybe arm some of the warehouse workers too.
When Minneapolis tries to defund the police, the suburbs won't let them get rid of POLICING. More likely it will be a combination of County Sheriffs and private security forces, at least in the middle class and rich neighborhoods. The poor neighborhoods? Gangs, cartels, and Antifa/ BLM / La Raza and their allies will run the streets, and Sheriffs will be the trash removal service.
Does anyone think that Chicago will be different?
In Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the big difference is the Freeways through the cities like 35W, 35E, 94, 10 and 52 will atrophy, and the Freeways around the cities will see a lot more traffic. Anyone traveling at night will likely put up with the extra 20-30 miles to avoid the city centers.
These drivers are sort of rednecks, but they are long hour working men (usually men, some women but mostly men) and extremely patriotic and like the police, except when we have a ticket book aimed at them. Maybe these communist sympathizing cowards will have a nervous breakdown if they can't get their stupid I phones easily. Try eating some produce when the Teamsters won't deliver.
The Teamsters should of replaced the FOP decades ago!
UPS has off duty and retired Police riding shotgun in some areas!
I know first hand about being a Truck Driver, as I did it for 8 years before becoming a Police Officer!
It is a dangerous profession in it of itself and that is why I became a Police Officer!
Lots of similarities between both jobs, and they are both thankless jobs that can often wind up in death!
So I don't blame drivers in not delivering to certain, crime ridden zip codes in this country and it has nothing to do about race and more about being safe, not hurt, robbed, etc.!
KMA 25+ plus on this so called police dept.
HA! Hoffa accepted 22.4 and screwed over future UPS drivers.
The fire department has a no strike clause.
The Teamsters have on political power, their retirement funds disappeared and their medical is on the ropes. More non union drivers than union. Before you join them take a long hard look at what you will get for you'd dues. Still might be better than what you have now though.
I simply adore truck drivers. Everything about them in manly. I have been known to go to truck stops and get a shower number......
I have to sit down now. I think I am getting a case of the vapors.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
I don't blame them one bit.
Let the cities who have all the idiotic laws and demonstrations in place have NOTHING!
I'm sure that would be great watching these low IQ imbeciles fend for themselves. The "coddled class" will then show everyone how they really are.
remember reading something many years ago of the country's political takeover by cities. well those country boys had something to say and quit growing for the malcontents that thought they ran everything. in the end america became america again.
DOVER – The Delaware Law Enforcement Memorial suffered significant damage when it was vandalized with an ax early Friday, Dover Police said.
https://delawarestatenews.net/police/delaware-law-enforcement-memorial-damaged-with-axe/
New York Times run by radical Leftists, but the view is spreading amongst the public.
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
Because reform won’t happen.
By Mariame Kaba
Ms. Kaba is an organizer against criminalization.
* June 12, 2020
I’ve been advocating the abolition of the police for years. Regardless of your view on police power — whether you want to get rid of the police or simply to make them less violent — here’s an immediate demand we can all make: Cut the number of police in half and cut their budget in half. Fewer police officers equals fewer opportunities for them to brutalize and kill people. The idea is gaining traction in Minneapolis, Dallas, Los Angeles and other cities.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
Hmmm, police drive a lot, maybe it’s time to change union affiliation.
Since Larry hates the police so much, lift residency so she doesn't have to see us when we're not working.
“ WAH! That's RACIST!"
That will cease having effect when you and I reply “And...? Your point being...?”. No matter what we say or do, we are considered racists.
Some of the shelves at my store are still barely stocked now. An Embargo by truckers will make this worse. Fortunately, I have enough TP from the last hoarding incident. I'm waiting for the areas that looted their stores to complain about a "food desert" any day now. Someone needs to teach the next generation about "cause, and effect"
More Popcorn Please!!!
Insurance companies will also not insure vehicles, property and businesses in those areas . So again, the left speaks and acts without any thought or research . It’s all BS and the Police jobs are safe, regardless what these a-hole politicians say. There can be no areas without law and order, period !!!!
Remember Reginald Denny? Not a pleasant memory.
Let the truckers shut down and the communists will starve. Bravo!
Yes, the lawlessness and the " defunding" of the police certainly will have many consequences . Will Jeff Bezos continue to live in Seattle? Will the founder of MSN move out of that city? Amazon employees are required to live in the city. Will anyone want to take a job and live in that lawless city? I was there 3 years ago and i could not believe how crappy that town it. Just about every square inch of grass had a tent with a homeless person. Minneapolis will have the same problem. Tens of thousands have been moving out of New York City never to return. The last article I read estimated that 450,000 people moved during the pandemic, people with the means, and will not return. Chicago will lose many. Middle class blacks have moved, estimated to be close to 50,000 the past few years. Defunding means cutting the number of cops since most of the budget goes for salaries. Liberal democratic cities will soon look like some futuristic movie
Reginald Denny!!
My Dad delivered bread on the southside in the 60s. His friend gave him a snub .38 and insisted that he carry it. A few nights later, a thug with a gun opened the passenger door of my Dad's cab-over and pointed a pistol at my Dad, then demanded the keys to the trailer. My Dad told him the keys were in a box, between the seats. The thug told my Dad to grab them and throw them over to him. My Dad reached in the box, grabbed the .38 and without lifting it from the box, he pulled the trigger. It was the "Luck o the Irish" that night. The bullet hit the Thug right in the nugget, killing him instantly. My Dad had never owned a gun and never even fired one.
When the Cops got there, my Dad was broken down. He was a religious guy, he never even swore. He was crying, he said, "What will happen to my six kids, I'm going to jail." The Cops told him to relax. A wagon pulled up, they picked the body up by the arms and legs and just chucked it in back. They said, "Go home to your kids, you did nothing wrong." Ahhh, the good old days.
Like I said previously, GOOD will triumph over evil!!! Watch out socialist democRATS your time is counting down!!! You have fucked the taxpayers one too many times and your insistence on pushing a lawless society upon the people will not fly!!! I hope your demise is not as bad as the crap you have forced on the masses!!!
thank you all truck drivers, delivery person's and so on. Being raised by a Polish prisoner of war, who told me times of going without food for days or getting only a rotten potato that had to last a couple days... God love Babciez (Babcia) R.I.P. I grew up learning to "make do" when cooking and eating with only what you have (and pleading just throw this/that out). But I hope it doesn't come to this
Fir the trucking companies, if the cites defund or interfere with police protection, the insurance rates will skyrocket. Companies will be force to add the costs of armed escorts and lets not forget huge increases in fuel costs.Also, to make up the shortfall, the states will probably double the sales and gas taxes.
Teamsters? There is only a small percentage of professional drivers anymore. Union drivers are all but a thing of the past. Only a couple union trucking companies left. Politicians sold them out too..deregulation killed those jobs. Teamsters union 705 was once long ago a tough powerful freight union, Now Boss's are just a castrated useless bunch of dimwits that care about themselves and there deep pockets...not the working stiff.
Watch for large insurance increases when de-funding comes to a city, business liability, material loss, fire insurance and for homeowners same will apply. Fireman justifiably will not unduly risk their lives over burning property.
Get the rail workers onboard and you can put a bite in this so called revolution
F the food stores. Wait until the folks find out that means no liquor deliveries.
Groot should pack up Olive Oyl and head up to Lake Geneva for a little R&R and maybe even a haircut.
Maybe she could invite rush and brown to join her, they’re just as useless to Chicago.
BLM and for that reason all liquor sales and deliveries will be stopped along with defunding the police. This poison people have been getting you addicted to stops now. The same goes for cigarettes. The corner drug purveyors will have petitions to sign to present to the mayor and mr. rush fo ratification.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The Teamsters should of replaced the FOP decades ago!
6/14/2020 01:51:00 AM
Hard to do when the officers voted against them
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Maybe the fire dept will strike on our behalf.
6/14/2020 12:03:00 AM
Are you alright?
True story - UPS had a sent me a Expected Delivery Delay Notice email. It couldn’t [or maybe wouldn’t) do any deliveries on the guaranteed delivery date due to civil disruptions. I wonder if everyone expecting a delivery on the route was interrupted just because of my one little ol’ box of buffalo boar .44 on that truck. Hmmmm.
Growing amount of expressway trespassing going on ever since Jugghead SpecialEd locked arms with other lawbreaking rogues.
Moose bumpers and 100,000 lbs is no match for unlawful speed bumps. State troopers might find it difficult to try and shut down at least 10 miles of interstate to find a location safe enough to conduct an traffic incident once or if the trucker stops.
Trucks will have to start staging close by their destinations before driving the local streets only in early mornings and leaving shitsville no later than noon. Plus, don’t forget there’s the Democrats are delighted, wanting more food supply chain interruptions. Besides to maybe having to rely on wildcat truckers being recruited for any territorial blockaded zones, anyone notice a surprising number of foreign independent OTR truckers over the past decades.
Stray a bit off topic,
“The Muni buses (SFMTA San Francisco Muni Transit Assoc) will no longer transport police to political demonstrations about “police brutality,” the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced on Twitter Tuesday“. However, Nanny Pelosi’s piss bum constituents will still continue to get free rides and toilet privileges.
“...some in the city are rebuking the agency for its new policy.“
“Hey Muni, lose our number next time you need officers for fare evasion enforcement or removing problem passengers from your buses and trains,” the San Francisco Police Officers Association“
Is that Shadow Freight Security outfit still in business?
Brothers backing Brothers will at least make them think twice before they do anything
From a bathroom wall in a truck spot
Born on a mountaintop
raised in a cave
trucking and fucking
is all I crave.
We should’ve chose to Teamsters along time ago there is a union it stands together could you imagine if we were a part of them all the brotherhood you we would have it be out right now shutting this fucking city down with trucks until reality sets in how much the police are needed and will be respected.
the professions that support law and order should strike. shut this motherfucker down.
I saw some guy on Twitter say that there's no gearhead in America that doesn't know what happened to Reginald Denny. None of those boys are gonna go where anybody can get a free shot at them with a brick (or worse).
If you ever played "Ding. Dong. Ditch." as a kid, you have taken the first step to being a UPS or FedEx driver.
"Of course, there are always gypsy truckers" No there aren't. The last round of Obama regulations made it so expensive that most of the Gypsies packed it in. They used to be the go to guys for full truckloads. When they went away, truckloads from my shop in Denver to either coast jumped from $1200-$1400 up to $3200 to $3600.
let at least once city disband, I want to watch
Im retired 5 years now from CPD. I have health issues, but I would HAPPILY ride literal shotgun with Mr. Mossberg for any of these drivers. PLEASE...try to open the door.
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