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Truckers rally in Tallahassee, two arrested
The ralliers said they were protesting low rates and working conditions for drivers, high insurance costs and brokers’ lack of transparency with truck operators. Two truckers were arrested during the protests for blocking an intersection.
June 9, 2016
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Florida group plans trucking rally from Miami to Tallahassee for June 6
Florida truckers have come together with plans for a rally ride from Miami to Tallahassee to “express their dissatisfaction” with some specific issues plaguing the industry. A press release issued to Overdrive by Ponce Seoane and Alberto Cruz-Torres, two of the organizers, begins with this appeal: We are a group of owner operators and transportation professionals […]
May 20, 2016
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Checking in with ‘Truckers against CARB’ — rally, public meeting Thursday
Video interview with Loren Hutnick about his “Truckers Against CARB” rally planned for Thursday in Sacramento, as CARB takes up public comment on the flexibility-enhancement provisions it introduced earlier in the year.
April 22, 2014
Loren Hutnick and his 1988 Peterbilt. The rig, after undergoing a rebuild, has been off the road for some time as Hutnick has taken work hauling for another company. Read more about the operator’s options under the Truck and Bus Rule come yearend via this link. Photo by Kevin Jones.
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‘Truckers to Shut Down America’ viral meme keeps moving
The Facebook page that went viral the third week of September calling for a trucking shutdown was then shut down itself under murky circumstances. Meanwhile, nontrucking promoters move toward a semblance of organization.
September 24, 2013
A flyer hosted at RidefortheConstitution.org directs readers back to another site owned by online talk show host Pete Santilli — text of the flyer begins with “Independent Truckers of America are essentially operating on slave wages…” Click through the image to read the text in full. For a decade, though income has been somewhat stagnant measured against inflation, average take-home for owner-operators in the United States has tracked around or above $50,000 yearly in Overdrive’s surveys, and recent ATBS client data showed an overall $52K/year average, hardly “slave wages.”
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