Trucker protest/embargo of Colorado

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Originally Posted by battlemidget

As mentioned, I too am curious to know his path to having a CDL and being given the keys.

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With the number of drivers retiring or quitting the business, I imagine companies are probably desperate to get warm bodies behind the wheel.

Interesting, If I made a decision in my profession that got someone killed, I would be shunned by my industry. Sure must be nice.

Gee, I'm planning on retiring next year, could my gimpy old ass get a CDL too? Gonna need a retirement job.....

Right now I’m driving I25 back and forth between Boulder and a work site in Ft Collins on a daily basis and I’ve not noticed any decrease in trucks.

I've read on another forum that the boycott was a fake tik-tok post. Not sure if there's any validity to that.

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Originally Posted by Grant H.

Some effing bleeding heart die-hard liberal wanted to "be the change that does good" and make a path for more immigrants to be able to work, at best...
Some effing retard bureaucrat took a cash payment for pushing some paperwork through...

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Either that or some penny-pinching business owner thought "why should I hire an American and pay him the salary an American driver would expect when I can hire a poorly trained foreigner for less $$ and put the difference in my pocket?"

I seem to recall reading (right after this happened) that the fly-by-night company the driver worked for also carried the bare minimum insurance of $750,000 and declared bankruptcy after this so the victims of the accident are not even going to be able to get much (if anything) from the insurance.

So yeah, blame the bureaucrats but save some of your anger for the cheap-ass businesses that want to foist the cost of their negligence and irresponsibility onto us, the taxpayers. ;)

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Originally Posted by Martinjmpr

Either that or some penny-pinching business owner thought "why should I hire an American and pay him the salary an American driver would expect when I can hire a poorly trained foreigner for less $$ and put the difference in my pocket?"

I seem to recall reading (right after this happened) that the fly-by-night company the driver worked for also carried the bare minimum insurance of $750,000 and declared bankruptcy after this so the victims of the accident are not even going to be able to get much (if anything) from the insurance.

So yeah, blame the bureaucrats but save some of your anger for the cheap-ass businesses that want to foist the cost of their negligence and irresponsibility onto us, the taxpayers. ;)

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They opened a new LLC the day after the crash

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Originally Posted by def90

Right now I’m driving I25 back and forth between Boulder and a work site in Ft Collins on a daily basis and I’ve not noticed any decrease in trucks.

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Depending on the time of day, that can be as bad as I25.

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Originally Posted by Gman

I've read on another forum that the boycott was a fake tik-tok post. Not sure if there's any validity to that.

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That was the point of OP. I didn't believe it either until we had multiple inbound shipments get delayed. We've had shippers tell us this week they can't find drivers to bring loads to CO (but can to ship stuff elsewhere) and other shippers tell us they loaded the freight and it left their dock but now it's sitting outside CO.

TikTok may be fake. But we are experiencing real delays specifically to CO in addition to the typical supply chain delays we're already used to.

I have a inbound load that arrived in Denver on the 21st.
It was SUPPOSED to be delivered to us here in Colorado Springs yesterday.
I think we won't actually have the delivery until next week.
This past year it has been tough getting shipments into Colorado, and the past few months it has been tough getting material from the depot to our loading dock.

Richard