Did any of you see that CNN broadcast over there in the States about Truckers n todays Trucking Lifestyle ???? I cought it over here in Baghdad on CNN . They stated that we ""ALL"" run shody equipment n bald tires n cheat on the logbook ect ect ect . They had CHP state the fact that they shut down over 25% of the trucks they inspect !!! They filmed it in LA in the Long Beach area and has a mexican OO stateing that he did all of this because he could'nt afford anything for his truck or hisself ec ect ect.. They had filmed those port haulers going in n out of the Long Beach Port hauling containers n such not the rest of us that have a bussiness to run and try to do things in a professional manner. What a dirty slap in the face by CNN !!!!!

 

I did see that, and that was aimed at the port, and how rates were so low that these drivers have to take so called short-cuts to get by. wasn't aimed at all drivers in general

 

Well that was'nt the impression it left me with and I imagine the general public will tie all of us to that image that CNN portrayed us as !!!!???

 

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...ef=videosearch

 

The guy that they interviewed is what's wrong with our industry.

Working for a cheap company, and thinking that they have to cut corners to make money.

 

They also played it on NBC in Los Angeles. More reason to close the border.

 

It was a story about California Truckers, the Ports were included, the DOT Inspections in California was included, the lower income, hispanic trucking community was directly related to the person that was being interviewed...his face was not shown-his truck was? This is part of the Dirty Laundry that most news outfits target in order to bring controversial subjects into a spotlight...it's just more sensationalism....Trucking is a misunderstood industry....and will continue to be just that..,,we know this from being musicians until 3 years ago, now we have better understanding of what is really happening in this industry and we are still considering ourselves rookies......We do see that Truckers & Trucking are usually guilty until proven innocent & we usually do not get the benefit of the doubt.....in most cases wrongly misunderstood and not appreciated in general...

 

I saw it as well. They seem to find the dumbest mother f'rs to do these things. I saw a clip about trucks stuck on the grapevine closure due to snow and they find this moron who didnt know anything other than he was stuck. They asked him if he was loseing money by sitting and he said "I don no maybe something" This my friends is our competition.

 

and people wonder why freight rates suck.