Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "Furious truck drivers plan to block Queensland border | 7NEWS" video.

@chrissy93x No. They have a job. if you think that driving a truck is stress, anxiety and panic get a different job.
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@mogusmonroe9431 No, they're not a dime a dozen, they're about $20 an hour for Kiwi drivers. A little more for Aussies normally. Last time I fell on hard times and had to drive a truck for a living I was on about $22 an hour as a starting wage. Suffice to say I moved on from that job pretty quickly when a better opportunity arose. There are also PLENTY of people out there with truck licences who don't drive trucks full time any more, and it costs about $800 to get a HR rigid licence and about $2200 to get an MC licence. Pretty easy to teach people to drive a truck well enough to do a basic job, especially the smaller Rigid Trucks. I'm sure a government free training grant would get numbers right up quickly and get people off the dole. (Obviously, like most things, being able to do it, and being able to do it well are two different things.) And if the money was better, or it was an emergency situation thing, I'm sure you could get many of those people back driving trucks to at least get us through a crisis.
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I looked out the window and it's still right there
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Because that's what we've done previously to assist the police man the border. If you'd prefer we can just hire some excavators and build a big mound of dirt across every road. I'm good with that too.
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Peter J.C And you think that we can't find a truck driver willing? These idiots only represent a small, loud mouthed section of the trucking community.
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But they can do long distance shipping by rail, sea or air. There's no reason why a local QLD truck driver can't pick up from a multimodal facility and do local deliveries. No trucks actually ever NEED to cross a border. We've just allowed our freight system to transition that way because federal governments would rather build highways than railways and ports, because politics.
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What Satanists? I'm Reformed Church of Baal. Totally different.
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@gordonjohnson2497 It's a Lapua. And they're far from capable of killing tanks, they're only a .338 rifle cartridge. Even a .50 cal BMG will only scratch paint any armoured combat vehicle Australia uses. Maybe he needs a Carl Gustav? Of course, what would I know.... That's of course if he still has it, what with being arrested and in jail, the cops probably searched his place, scanned is backyard with a metal detector looking for buried treasure too.
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Fine. If they think that it's too hard, I'm happy to lock all the NSW truckies out of QLD. Pretty sure we can send freight by rail. Happy to see people like this decide to do themselves out of a job. Permanently.
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You know in 1918 we had to send the mail over the border in a basket on a rope. This is nothing. The way NSW is going that border lockdown is only going to get a lot harsher.
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Funny, but QLD is not where covid is running rampant. If NSW had got this under control rather than spent weeks with "mockdown" there wouldn't be an issue. WA, QLD, NT, SA and TAS all have no covid problem. The ACT didn't for a year. Even VIC solved the first incursion from NSW. This is all NSW's fault - Gladys and Scomo.
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Hhahahahaha. Can't wait for a blockade on the Gold Coast supported by bikies. They'd be sending out helicopters with snipers onboard so fast you couldn't even say "Oh shiii"
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Yeah, getting sacked will really prove that.
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Then don't come to QLD. No problems, you can stay where you are and get covid or not. don't care either way. So glad you decided to share your decision with a whole bunch of people who don't care.
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Said truckies will get arrested. Their trucks will get towed. Will delay traffic maybe an hour.
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@jlace22 Easy enough to plug a compressor line in and air the brakes up to release them. You think tow truck drivers don't know how to deal with air-release braking systems?
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@KS-jy4hl you think you can't hear where the hissing noise is coming from?
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It's amazing how many comments here are from overseas people (kind of obvious with all the "God bless", "Thoughts and Prayers" and "Thank you for your service" comments, which are things that Aussies NEVER SAY). If you click on a few repeat poster names here it becomes clear pretty quick just how many people commenting are not Australian but overseas provocateurs. Pretty clear that much of the support is from overseas antivaxxers who have been encouraged on social media to support their own domestic political beliefs in a completely different country. As far as cutting off "critical supplies"? Queensland is a net food exporter, by a bloody mile, and much of what we can't produce ourselves is sourced offshore. We can also bring stuff in by coastal shipping or by train. We might miss out on some winter veg from NSW. Big deal. We can buy it from Tassie and ship it by boat, or frozen stuff from NZ. We'll miss out on Victorian lamb. Big deal - we'll buy beef, cheap, because our suppliers in places like Rocky (you know, beef capital of Australia) won't be able to ship any south. Meanwhile imagine the screaming when Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart cannot get steak or mince, until they can get supplies shipped over all the way from Brazil. It ain't Queensland who is gonna suffer. :P We can also bring stuff in by train, completely unaffected by a truckies strike. Maybe we'll even start sending trains of beef mince south. We might be short on pork, but since most people buy overseas pork because of the price, once again, no big deal. Chickens we've got enough of. On seasonal fruit and veg, we'll have plenty of bananas, strawberries etc. We'll be short on apples and oranges. Also, the antivax truckie strike is not going to be the cause, they're just trying to claim credit for a FWA approved strike to do with Toll's enterprise bargaining agreement. A perfectly legal strike action to do with the constant undermining of wages by a major corporation. The strike has very little to do with vaccination. It's just a couple of antivaxxers trying to claim credit for doing nothing else but creating a bit of noise on facebook and youtube. Don't be fooled, people.
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Which government? State or federal? Which state, since the one that's hardest locked down is NSW, yet most of the anger on here seems to be aimed at a state that ISN'T locked down for a lockdown they supposedly have even though there is no lockdown in that state? Or do you mean the federal one that didn't get vaccines? The federal one that opposed lockdowns? Or the federal one that then decided they encourage them? Or the federal one that is attempting to make us open up again while simultaneously trying to support a lockdown?
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@gordonjohnson2497 Yeah, I can see the truckies calling in artillery strikes and close air support any minute now.
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@gordonjohnson2497 so what's the talk of being "outgunned"? The army won't be armed... but the cops sure will be.
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@maddogbrisbane01 BWAHHAHA. You seriously think an ACTUAL army can't move a handful of trucks with all the security of 1.2mm of steel door panel and a bit of glass, or build a road around them? Also, most of our oil comes into ports by tanker ships. You driven along Kingsford Smith Drive? Seen the big oil tanks? You know, right next to the river and the port? This is frankly hilarious.
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Cool. You will do exactly what the QLD Premier has demanded - no unvaccinated truckies over the border spreading Covid. That'll show her.
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Not to truckies it isn't but they're apparently terrified of a needle that kids are happy to take.
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Already taken to the high court and failed. Sorry. Here's the EXACT WORDING and why the High court of Australia knocked back the legal challenge to the border closures. "On the imposition of uniform duties of customs, trade, commerce, and intercourse among the States, whether by means of internal carriage or ocean navigation, shall be absolutely free." Free movement of goods does not mean free movement of people. The constitution is more concerned about the movement of dutiable goods than people. It doesn't even mention people.
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Nothing will happen because all of this is piss and wind
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@gizbongizbon59 " I WILL NOT allow this country to be ruined by tyrannical communist Labor Goverments" Funny, but it's run by a federal Liberal government. Has been for 8 years. Also, the state in the mass lockdown is NSW. Also a Liberal government. LIBERAL. Not Labor. Obviously you aren't smart enough to have noticed. So the tyranny? That's coming from your beloved Liberal party, with the support of the National party. Yeah, I'd get in your way. You dopn't frighten me at all. You're far too stupid to be a threat, except that your vote is equal to that of someone who can think their way out of a wet paper bag. That's the scariest thing here.
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You are kidding. Kerry Stokes, 13th richest man in Australia, worth over 7 BILLION DOLLARS, and LIBERAL PARTY DONOR is a lefty? Where did you pluck that idea from?
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@trailrider759 We can be very very thankful there is only one Tucker Carlson. Sadly one is already far far far too many.
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@1978intel Of course not. Don't be ridiculous. I am actually a time traveller who will be born into a covid infested future in 2026.
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You mean the STATE THAT DOESN'T HAVE the lockdowns you're complaining about? SMH
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@mogusmonroe9431 The only reason we had fights over AUSTRALIAN MADE toilet paper is because of idiots spreading misinformation.
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@mogusmonroe9431 I've been a truck driver for a living. I bet you, and most of the people here havent.
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The government will get the Army or Australia Post to deliver stuff. Both have big logistics networks. Major trucking firms will sack people who refuse to return to work after their illegal strike action is blocked by court. The truckies shown are a bunch of blowhard bulliesand conspiracy theorists who will get absolutely nowhere. The only ones who will be able to maintain a strike for any period without losing their job are private owner operators and they will quickly go bankrupt without the income from working. Meanwhile major suppliers and retailers will just shift stuff to trucking companies that don't put up with this, or move it to rail or coastal shipping to get around state border lockdowns. Honestly the labour costs for transport will be lower, and the greenhouse emissions will be lower. The world is heading this way anyway. Truck transport represents 30% of our greenhouse emissions. If we don't address that soon we're going to be slugged with huge carbon tariffs by other nations . Now watch the right wing nutjobs carry on about that.
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Yep. I'm not worried. Let them block the border.
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