Joined: Jun 20, 2004 Posts: 4,583 Location: Back in the Hood
Posted: Fri 4th Jul 7:43am Post subject:
scatter wrote:
I say good on 'em!
About time we started getting active in our protests......need to stop being so bloody British and get a bit more Gallic!
The French literally protest about nothing, like the annual mayday protests which are about what?
The Farmers protests in France have suceeded in keeping 80% of french farm subsidies in the hands of 5 enormous agricultural companies.
I'm with Scotty, kcuf the truckies, they've shat where they eat too often in the past. Hopefully the increased costs will teach 'em to slow down and drive less like they own the road.
Joined: Nov 11, 2005 Posts: 14,242 Location: Sharpening my shanks
Posted: Fri 4th Jul 7:45am Post subject:
Scotty wrote:
A bunch of whiny little hctibes would be a better term.....
1) EVERYONE IS DOING IT HARD kcuf-KNCUCKLES.
2) You were given warning last time and that led to outright wholesale abuse of the system. Now you wanna cry about it?
3) 18 wheels really REALLY kcuf the road, if you were to do a weight/wheel comparison you'd probably find truckies don't do so bad! (not the most salient of points, I know...)
4) Truckies will just do what they usually do anyway, and pass the cost onto the consumer.
Interesting this is happening in the same week the gubberment got rail too...
No sympathy from me (in case the tone of my post hadn't got that across)
I'm not sure of the figures etc... but would have thought that since they use a parcload more fuel than everyone else they already pay a tihsload more taxes, let alone their existing RUCs... like I said, I'm not sure of the stats behind it all
The common motorist feels they are being F'd in the A with the current fuel prices, surely the truckies must feel like they're getting it from both ends - a good ol' spit roasting.
Joined: Nov 13, 2005 Posts: 5,216 Location: Skyway
Posted: Fri 4th Jul 7:49am Post subject:
CrustyMTB wrote:
scatter wrote:
I say good on 'em!
About time we started getting active in our protests......need to stop being so bloody British and get a bit more Gallic!
The French literally protest about nothing, like the annual mayday protests which are about what?
The Farmers protests in France have suceeded in keeping 80% of french farm subsidies in the hands of 5 enormous agricultural companies.
I'm with Scotty, kcuf the truckies, they've shat where they eat too often in the past. Hopefully the increased costs will teach 'em to slow down and drive less like they own the road.
Having run a fleet around Auckland for some years the amount we paid in Taxes, we did own the road.
Joined: Nov 13, 2005 Posts: 5,216 Location: Skyway
Posted: Fri 4th Jul 7:52am Post subject:
wachtourak wrote:
Already a thread about this somewhere, like I said, they should have police marksmen on the motorway overbridges and shoot them in the gnikcuf heads for being roznucs
woo look at me in my truck making trouble for the establishment
deliver my bread and milk you roznucs, and get a move on
So your going to be a few mins late to work, Bo Ho. Harden up princess.
Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Posts: 3,365 Location: wellies
Posted: Fri 4th Jul 7:59am Post subject:
Is there actualy any disruption yet? All is quiet on my work radio, there's normally a whole lotta complaining if our cars are getting held up on the motorway for any reason
Joined: May 02, 2008 Posts: 359 Location: On the western front
Posted: Fri 4th Jul 8:01am Post subject:
CrustyMTB wrote:
The French literally protest about nothing, like the annual mayday protests which are about what?
I'm guessing you, like many people, work an 8 hour day, and have many advantages brought to you as an employee that would not be there if it were not for union protests.
Mayday is to remember the social and economic acheivements of the labour (NOT the labour party per se) movement. Without the formation of the Unions, business, government and others would have mass control of the workers and we would have slave labour conditions.
It ssipes me off how many people these days refuse to join unions to support their actions when they have no idea of the history of the union movement or what it was like in the past. Many of the conditions, hours of work, and other benefits you get today were provided by Union protest and negotition.
By the way, 'may day' has nothing to do with the french. It is about an incident that occured Chicago, Illanois. The first country to institute it as a 'holiday' was Australia in 1856.
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Back on topic, I'm all for the truckies protest. They had an agreement with the minister, she has gone and broken that agreement, which will result in financial loss for the truckies.
Joined: Sep 01, 2005 Posts: 2,103 Location: Hurtling towards a tree...
Posted: Fri 4th Jul 8:08am Post subject:
Trucks are cool. It was quite an impressive site driving past them all to wainui this morning. I wanted to do that toot toot arm thing that kids do to all of them when i drove past. hurr hurr. Feel a bit like a 7 year old boy at the moment!!!
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