The *ONLY* ones that have the power to stop the insane oil/fuel prices are the truckers. All they have to do is park their trucks and walk away. The entire country will come to a screaching halt in a week. The only thing that is keeping it from happening is the big companies are paying their drivers fuel bills. The average super walmart has a dozen trucks delivering to them every day....how long do you think it will take for their shelves to empty?? How long do your think it will take for factories to shut down because they ran out of parts/materials/supplies, with no more in site until the trucks are rolling again?? In case you missed it, *EVERYTHING* is moved by truck.

Trucking is a business, and if you can't run a business to make a profit, your gonna go broke in a real quick hurry. $4.00/gal fuel will eat any profits in a real quick hurry. The drivers are caught in a catch-22....if they don't drive, they are right on the ragged edge of losing their trucks and their homes... if they do drive, their still gonna lose their trucks and their homes, its just gonna take a little longer.

Ask any truckers that you run across....."How high will fuel costs have to get before you park your rig and walk away??" If they waffle around or try to tell you that its cut-throat, then they are part of the problem, and not part of the solution.

I called the Teamsters Union headquarters and explained all this to a dozen different people there, and either they were clueless, or just plain didn't give a crap.


If you do a little homework, your find that in the mid 70's all the drivers parked their rigs, and for the same reason.....it worked....it shut the entire country down in a week, and it took 6 months to recover from it.

FWIW, my service truck stays parked unless it is going to make money, and even then, my routes are planned to save fuel.