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Duncanpup

(14,409 posts)
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 07:15 AM Feb 2025

These tariffs will cut our Montreal and Ontario bids.

And those men on those bids under contract rules will have the rights to bump other junior drivers off hold downs (start times or destination bids).
And it will cause down turn in freight and cause slow down system wide on the American side because of decreased freight.
Drivers will find themselves on extra board two hour work call never knowing what days off they will have or worse possible lay offs.

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These tariffs will cut our Montreal and Ontario bids. (Original Post) Duncanpup Feb 2025 OP
I have a neighbor who works for a major commercial trucking co SheltieLover Feb 2025 #1
Thanks yet they will affect us all Duncanpup Feb 2025 #2
I'm sorry to hear that, Dunc SheltieLover Feb 2025 #3

SheltieLover

(67,309 posts)
1. I have a neighbor who works for a major commercial trucking co
Mon Feb 3, 2025, 07:36 AM
Feb 2025

His employer always has their thumb om the pulse of the economic trends.

His hours were drastically cut because of their forecasts, I believe not long after the election.

He has been with his employer for years.

His beautiful cadillac was just repo'd. He is understandably heartbroken. (Yes, we tried to tell him to do a video walk around & take pix & return the car himself but either he couldn't wrap his head around the importance of trying to salvage his credit or he was just so damned depressed he didn't care.)

Just one early & relatively insignificant example of the effects of tfg's devasrating effects on our economy & people's lives. (Between he & his elderly dad, also a neighbor, they have about 10 or so beautiful classics that he could drive, so it's not as if he will have to walk to the store for foid.) Hopefull6, he will be able to keep his mortgage payments up & keep his house.

I hope this cut will not affect you, Dunc.

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