Im sure you guys are watching Australia, its fucking stupid here.
After a year and a half of lock downs i can tell you the left vs right paradigm illusion has evaporated, its now authoritarian vs libertarian.
Theyre pushing us towards vaccine passports for all sorts of things. The frist being crossing the borders starting 31st Aug. The truckies are pissed. So we will see strikes. And shortages. This might spread to other industries as they bring in more mandates.
Now what I want to get to is the counterstrategy. Prime minister John Howard showed us the strategy 20 years ago! Look up the Waterfront Dispute. The maritime union striked. They had immigrants ready to go as soon as the strike started. They just brought them in on a boat and they took over.
Whats the bets we have the Chinese rock up and start driving all the trucks?
let me give you an idea of what you are in for if this happens, i witnessed a very short one when i was a kid.
woke up one morning for school, mom says "we gotta leave early today can't use the highway"
meaning we would have to drive through the country roads and go up and over the highway on overpasses 4 times before we got there...
each time we went up an overpass all you could see for miles in both directions was trucks moving at 2 mph and cars all stuck in the jam.
they encircled the entire cities highway loop and shut the whole interstate down, brought everything to a screeching halt.
cops couldn't ticket anyone because they were all stuck in the same traffic jam... like human centipede but with semi's all driving slow on purpose.
it took less than a day before the state backed off.
if these guys really do this, it will cripple the trucking industry, they will have to forcibly remove people from trucks and thats not going to play well on TV when they have to beat the shit out of 10's of thousands of angry truck drivers screaming "freedom".
they will have to murder them and steal their trucks...
there has to be a line in the sand somewhere, this may be your chance. support them, tell everyone to support them, fight back anyway you still can.
you guys are the canary in the coalmine.
i have a strong suspicion this is due to how close you are to china.
Can you please give me more info? Where and when?
i'd say late 80's early 90's near detroit.
i've looked in the past for articles about it, there have been a LOT of these trucker strikes in history and only the big ones are searchable.
the one i'm talking about lasted one day so i have never been able to find articles about it...
but i'll never forget it.
they shut down I-75 and all the feeder loops around all the major cities it hits (all the 3 digit highways that end in "75")
i watched it clearing up at a friends house who lived close to the highway... we went to his house after school just for something to do... watching the cars honk and yell at each other was hilarious as a kid.
as an adult i can tell you that 3 days of that and the grocery stores will be cleaned out down to bare shelves.
go buy food tomorrow morning, stock your fridge, but more importantly stock your pantry and freezer with cheaper bulk items.
even better if you can find a farm that sells bulk... and you can fill your freezer with chicken or beef or pork...
a major trucker strike shuts down everything, and there could be food riots.