Bozo gets it

LDB · Dec 7, 2009

Dale Sommers may be called the trucking bozo but he's no bozo when it comes to politics. He had a very clear, concise and correct monologue on his show today where he gave an "I told you so." to those so deserving of it. Hope you heard his show today. It was good.

layoutshooter · Dec 8, 2009

The "Bozo" is a man who is NOT afraid to say what he thinks. While I have not always agreed with what he was saying I have always admired his willingness to stand up and say exactly what he thinks. He would take a LOT of flack from some in here. Of that there is NO doubt. I missed yesterday's show. I would have loved to have heard it.

greg334 · Dec 8, 2009

I wonder if this is what you are talking about?

... Many misguided people, especially the left leaning news media like to blame George Bush for what has gone wrong with our economy, the unemployment and the several million foreclosures of homes all over America. In one sense, George Bush is partly responsible because his monetary advisers did not see what was coming and in his zeal to wage a needless war in Iraq and Afghanistan and to Legalize millions of Illegal Aliens from all over the world, he failed to see that the bottom was falling out. Many millions of people had bought homes that they could not afford but Bill Clinton enacted a bill in 1996, whereby his vision was that every American family could and should be able to own a home. He loosened the rules for the banking industry and Wall Street. Consequently, millions of people bought homes with Adjustable Rate Mortgages that had very low payments for the first 3 to five years, but they were also told that by the time the ARM rates ...

LDB · Dec 8, 2009

You left out the best part, where he called Obama the horrible mistake that he is.

aristotle · Dec 8, 2009

The Trucking Bozo is a philosopher-king for the common people. Not the elites. He reminds me somewhat of Will Rogers.

iceroadtrucker · Dec 8, 2009

layoutshooter said:
The "Bozo" is a man who is NOT afraid to say what he thinks. While I have not always agreed with what he was saying I have always admired his willingness to stand up and say exactly what he thinks. He would take a LOT of flack from some in here. Of that there is NO doubt. I missed yesterday's show. I would have loved to have heard it.

Your right and have knocked the bullseye outa the target with one shot or was that 3 shots using the Hell Fire. Dont worry I wont tell HG.Good Job!!! Must be a member of the sure shot Hunt Club one shot one Kill. As you said there are those here that would attack such an individual so true.

greg334 · Dec 9, 2009

Yeah, ok ... there seems to be something I feel that must be said.

See every thing in that post that I quoted has been said by several others on different blogs and forums, everything.

Most of what he said repeats others, many of it is good to hear, while others things makes me wonder where he came up with it. For example "This Depression we are in is much broader in scope than the great crash of 1932" Which I can not agree with because the facts prove otherwise.

A lot of people get it, but that doesn't matter until they wake up and put some effort into it. This industry is fractured and until the common truckers pull together, well it won't matter who the philosopher is leading the charge.

Who is John Galt?

layoutshooter · Dec 9, 2009

You got that right Greg, we truckers, are our own worst enemies. We do NOT work together as a group. Most likely never will since the divides you see in the country in general are in this industry as well. We all want what WE want. We should, however, be able to work together on things like HOS etc. Then again, the Teamsters just MIGHT have a different agenda than an Owner/Operator does.

greg334 · Dec 9, 2009

Well it goes a bit deeper than that.

I see three types of truckers; the owner/driver, the driver who is clueless and the company driver who doesn't give a cr*p about anything but their money.

Teamsters fit into the last group and by far are the ones preventing anything positive from happening.

The CSA 2010 and most of the logging issues are the result of the last group.

It used to be that the truckers still thought alike, even the company driver but it changed with both technology and politics. Pretty much we deserve what we get.

layoutshooter · Dec 9, 2009

It is a very sad state of affairs in our industry for sure. The powers that be LOVE divided groups. They are easier to control.

Sound like anything you have heard before? Divided groups? Like government mandated divisions, affimative action, protected groups etc etc etc. Pitting one against another to insure THEIR OWN power. And we, as a nation, fall for it.

greg334 · Dec 9, 2009

Well I think this is why we see no real regs for safety.

I mean there is no change to make it harder to get a
license, but the opposite seems to be happening. They system is going to a more corrective based system instead of prevention.

The joke among some of us listening to people who seem to think that CSA 2010 and EOBR are going to straighten things up seem to look through rose colored glasses in the sense they don't see what is really happening.

Safety starts at the beginning, not when something happens.

layoutshooter · Dec 9, 2009

Yepper,

It is the same with laws across the board. Everything is going to the enforcement side as opposed to the prevention side. Government is assuming guilt and looking for reasons to ticket/arrest etc. Partly due to falling tax revenues and mostly due to a very dangerous mindset of control and rule.

greg334 · Dec 9, 2009

Well you know I thought about this a little bit between your speed posts, I don't listen to much on XM 171 because it is the same old crap and not one person on there is saying that we need to get it together and blame the trucker because of these problems - or I haven't heard anyone say it.

Instead I hear the same old boring complaints and the same BS about how the Man Is Keeping the Brothers Down when someone needs to call it as it is - we are collectively too lazy to put the effort into having a voice and force changes. When I talk to some 'truckers', they all point to OOIDA but come on they can only do so much and then it depends on their members to act for them.