Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Truck driver pay plummeted in last 30 years: Drivers association president" video.

  1. Roads are like the rest of the infrastructure its been neglected for years. Private campground owners associations are the ones behind no overnight parking laws. They built the whole Connecticut Turnpike in two years but it took five years to build a new I-95 bridge in New Haven and the Southern approach still hasn't been finished.
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  2. Regulation has reached the point to where a taxi driver in CT must have a medical card and now if you do have a medical waiver it's on you medical card for the company to see.
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  3. Same shit different vehicle. The boss would go to the casino and loose the drivers wages than they'd change the pay day. I remember one time when we were on a Monday pay day schedule.
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  4. They only way things will change for the working drivers is to go back to union struggle. In 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression coal truck drivers in the open shop paradise Minneapolis struck and waged a battle that became the Minneapolis General Strike. Inspiring workers across the country and leading to organising both inside workers and the over the road central states teamsters conference.
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  5. GPS system isn't even that reliable yet and you want to send out trucks without drivers?
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  6. That's why they try to keep a boss like him out of politics. It's like listening to Donald Trump you never know what he will say or do next. They have to have interpreters for Trump to explain what he means. I've worked for some crazy ones. I would argue with the dispatcher over sweeping my bus time by the end of the week the 'fat man' would come out of the front office, fire me on Friday afternoon and then on Monday at 5am I'd receive a call can you come back to work this morning? Then another week just the same as the last.
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  7. Farrell Dobbs formerly a republican and a coal truck delivery driver helper one of the leaders of the Minneapolis General strike would disagree with you and so will I as a former member of Teamsters Local 496. I meet both Dobbs and Jimmy Hoffa Sr and I will tell you Dobbs knew what he was talking about.
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  8. The day will come when drivers are tried of that and leave all your trucks on the side of the road and demand cabs to take them home.
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