Truckies will STOP

Did you get passed year 9 ?

Feel really sorry for those people who make their living from driving trucks but it is a harsh economic environment out there and businesses and families are going bankrupt all the time. Sadly many truckies choose the lifestyle over sound business and economic rationalism that they should basing their decisions on.

Trucking is part of the life of our country but at least 50% of road transport should not be on the roads but transported by rail or sea.

I hope they can do something to change the system but I have my doubts about their long term viability regardless of any protests.

I do feel sorry for owner/drivers......Had one live in my street, I say had as he just moved the family out as the morgage, lease payments, fuel costs ect just got to high. team that with falling freight rates equals NO house for his family.

BUT blocking roads and bleep alot of people off.....will it help their cause????? Oh well time will tell if it goes ahead.

The reason you see so many b double letter boxes on the highway is they can't use rail because of their turnaround times, you would get your letters and parcels about 2 weeks to late using rail. Hate to see what the veges would look like.

A few years ago my old man had some machinary sent from Brisbane to Brownsville, 2 rail cars. They went missing for 3 months and were found at Longreach, OH WHAT A SYSTEM.

I can just imagine getting a special out of WA to Qld how rail could do it I haven't a clue.

Rail is the go, but until the infastructure is put in place trucking is the only alternative on the long haul routes.

Just to put a cat among the pidgeons...... IMHO the only way that rail transport will get up and going and do what people expect is for all governments to get out of the game. Transport of goods (and people for that matter) - whatever they are is best handled by the private sector. The trucking industry has clearly shown that. Now that road cost have been driven so high it is especially the time to start selling off the state rail systems.

Reckon old Lindsay Fox could make the system work better than any state government - one decision-maker and no bloody partisan politics.

I sympathise with the truckies, but fail to see how blocking roads will help long term. All it will do is generate anger with other road users.
Why not blockade driveways or business headquarters of the fuel companies, rip off big businesses, and politicians.
Screw around with the people directly responsible for the drama and the only ones that can do anything for you.
I am in the building industry, and we are getting hit with proposed fuel levies which average $80 for a house load of bricks or roof tiles. Both from a company that I won't name (but rhymes with Boral), and you can bet you baggy butts that the money won't be going to the truckies.
This same unnamed company pushed the roofing prices up a few years ago to try and stop all the contractors going to Sydney after the big storms. Our prices went up $1200 for a house, but the guys working as roofing contractors only received $300.
The whole levy system could be misused as profiteering.
Sure truckies, be angry, blockade to your hearts content in the right places, and I'll support you, but screw over normal road users (who are also suffering high costs) with blockages, and you lose my respect and support.
Cheers
Ian

Brisbane is looking like they plan to gridlock traffic in the CBD especially in the Parliament end of town.

I am due to give evidence to a parliamentary enquiry first thing on Tuesday morning I already need to leave home at 6 am to get there at 9am :-(

I hope they only blockade for one day.

The trucks are stopping? I couldn't even get the bar stewards to slow down when I was broken down and dangerously exposed on the edge of the Bruce Highway couple of weeks back. The wash from their rigs no more than a metre away just about knocked me and my disabled van into a muddy ditch. Sorry, no sympathy coming from me.
T.R.