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To: Real Man who wrote (364110)	3/31/2008 5:07:21 PM
From: ldo79	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Trucker's Strike for April 1st: Truck Drivers to Strike in Protest By Jeff Freeland Mar 31, 2008 It takes a ton of cash to run a truck these days. So much so that several truck driver's will voluntarily take their rigs off the road on April 1st in what has been billed as a trucker's strike. It is not an organized effort by a union but it appears to be more of a grass root effort of independent owner-operators that has picked up steam with Diesel prices well over $4.00 per gallon in many truck stops across America. That big-time expense is hurting the small businessmen that run their own rigs and they would like some help from the Federal Government with some tax relief on fuel prices. There are now reports that possibly thousands of independent truckers that will park their rigs on April fool's day. * But it isn't a joke and it isn't a hoax. Can this strike hurt consumers? It could in some areas. But there won't be enough trucks pulled off the roads to make it felt nationwide. Owner-operators of their own rigs are feeling the pinch and in slow economic times are making less, not more, and they have to pay the same prices at the market as the rest of us. It's been hard to pinpoint what drivers will participate and exactly what the plan will do as far as products being delivered to stores. Norita Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, a trade association based in Missouri has answered a record number of calls, but she can't tell who exactly will participate. * And keep this in mind, with each day off, that's a day where the independent trucker makes nothing. We will all just have to wait and see what happens on Tuesday to see what impact it might have.