Do you ever read what you post?
You just said Teamsters were only worried about themselves and how much money they could make by screwing shareholders and customers.
This pleasing shareholders is another topic I will get into eventually.
You, more than most on here, don't give a damned how much harder or longer we must work with very little increase of benefit to us.
Yet somehow in your economics we must serve a group which expects the world in returns for doing not one bit of this job.
They aren't like the private owners who actually put their life into it and gave a damn about what the industry was really about.
The standard answer is " but the pension funds are shareholders".
For us to get what would really benefit us who do the job......all of this needs a whole lot of looking into.
Serving gamblers most probably is never gonna get us what we are worth.
It's taken a whole lot.
And given little.
Yes it's a job.
Yes it raised families.
But yes top exec jobs are jobs to...and do a little more than raise families.
We need to look out for our families better.
Too many shams in be this world to believe most any in of it anymore.
Staying in the box seems to be staying trapped.
Most probably our rates were very great hauling single shorter trailers as per cost of living.
Now it's tall wide long doubles and triples, rail cars and cartage..........all that money saved by customers and investors........and lost by us.
And companies still go under.
Changes of ops cutting jobs and messing up seniority and lives...all still necessary.
The huge question is.....why?
Where's the money from all extra hauled by less guys and money supposedly saved?
Where's our money?
Where's ours throughout the whole industry?