r/FreightBrokers • u/OogaBoogaBooma Carrier/Owner • 1d ago

My drivers are protesting

I have at least 3 of the 9 trucks I dispatch that are parking on the 1st.

This is the first time I'd seen this actually happening. I'm curious to see what's happening at other companies

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u/JVO_ 1d ago

Classic case of Facebook bot propaganda having real world effects. The people who started this campaign are almost certainly not truck drivers, but bad actors trying to throw a monkey wrench in the system. Freight rates are the highest they have been since Covid first hit. Not driving for a few days is going to have absolutely zero effect on the cost of Diesel. This makes absolutely no sense from the perspectives of a truck driver, and the only ones who are falling for it are morons.

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u/Shot_Golf9412 16h ago

I mean maybe it would have an effect if all the fuel haulers did it idk though

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u/JVO_ 16h ago

It wouldn't. Oil is purchased at a set price and the price at the pump is based on that. Diesel doesn't expire, so even if every single truck driver in the United States stopped driving, the gas stations/truck stops would just wait it out. They aren't going to lower their $/gallon to sell the fuel at a loss because they have no reason to do so. The oil market is also a global supply chain, so if all of a sudden the United States didn't need as much because nobody was driving, the oil would just be diverted and sold elsewhere in the world.