Quote:Some Trump-supporting truckers are refusing to transport loads to and from New York City after the former president was fined $355 million and had his ability to run businesses in the state suspended in Friday’s civil fraud verdict.

A pro-Trump truck driver known as “Chicago Ray” posted a video to X following the verdict, sharing that he and several of his colleagues are declining NYC delivery jobs due to Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling.

“I’ve been on the radio talking to drivers for about the last… hour and 15 minutes… I’ve talked to at least ten drivers… they’re going to start refusing loads to New York City starting on Monday,” Ray said.

I got about three drivers that I drive with… they already fought with the boss telling him they ain’t going to New York City,” he continued.

Ray went on to denounce Engoron’s ruling, which barred Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation for three years on top of the massive fine.

“I’ll tell you what, you **** around and find out! We’re tired of you motherfucking leftists ******* with Trump,” the trucker said. “Leave Trump alone with the bull****… you know you ain’t got **** on Trump, so cut the bull****.”

According to Ray, “Our bosses don’t care if we deny the load, we’ll just go somewhere else!”

He added, “Truckers are for Trump. I mean, we’re like 95, 96 percent… all Trump. Ain’t no motherfuckers for Biden.”

Another driver, known as “American Trucker” on X, joined the boycott.

“We got your back @Chicago1Ray. No NYC,” he wrote.

More truckers joined the online rallying, with “The Disrespected Trucker” writing, “I vow that I will not make one delivery to New York. NONE! Who’s with me? Truckers for Trump!”

“You can call me every name in the book and I’m still not going to deliver to New York,” he wrote in a follow-up.

Quote: In New York City, the Woke lunatics did a victory dance after Judge Arthur Engoron, beaming his Joker smile, laid a $350-million fine on Mr. Trump for conducting a set of normal real estate transactions with a bank that profited from doing business with him. Many are still trying to figure out how that amounts to a crime of any sort. Don’t suppose that the check is in the mail, though. There is an appeals process that leads, you may be sure, to a dismissal of that inane judgment and the puerile hypotheticals that the case derived from. And, by and by, you also might expect a countersuit for malicious prosecution when all that smoke clears. New York Attorney General Letitia James, lacking impulse control, is for the moment enjoying the fulfillment of her campaign promise to “get Trump.” Waiting to see how much she enjoys losing her law license in the days to come.

Every reaction provokes an equal and opposite reaction, Newton’s Third Law states. It manifested shortly after Judge Engoron’s end zone dance when a call went out over the Internet for America’s truckers to refuse loads inbound to New York City. We’ll have to stand by to see how that develops. No more bok choy, Texas beef, or Meyer Lemons for you, “progressive” denizens of the Five Boroughs! Embrace the suck! The genius part is that, unlike the 2022 Canadian truckers’ action in Ottawa, the American truckers will not be cluttering up New York’s streets with their rigs, license plates on view, leaving them vulnerable to such pranks as the shutdown of their bank accounts. All they’ll do is sit innocently at home back in Kentucky and Missouri, enjoying a break from the rigors of the highway. Is that a crime? Arguably no more than doing a normal real estate deal in good faith with willing lender was a crime.

The truckers have promised to include Washington DC next in their delivery boycott. The K-Street lobbying gang won’t be buying any influence for a while over platters of grilled branzino and Mariscos Molcajete. Maybe there will a few Cliff Bars left in the Farragut Square 7-Eleven and they can do business in their cars. As for “Joe Biden,” his minders have probably laid in enough Ensure for a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory to get by for a few weeks — until the magic moment when, alas, he must needs be thrown under the bus of expediency to keep their game going.

(02-19-2024 01:10 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  It is early. No telling yet if this boycott will spread far and wide enough to have an impact. Sure would be a shame if NY folks suffered for being stupid with who they support politically and the methods those corrupt fools employ.

(02-19-2024 01:30 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(02-19-2024 01:10 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  It is early. No telling yet if this boycott will spread far and wide enough to have an impact. Sure would be a shame if NY folks suffered for being stupid with who they support politically and the methods those corrupt fools employ.

While I love the thought of bringing NYC to its figurative knees - - and God knows they deserve it - - it is sadly NOT too early to say that this idea, clever as it is, will not work.

Literally hundreds of trucks poor into NYC every minute of every day. If this protest were to have any traction at all, we would know about it in real time. That we are not already hearing about supply-chain problems for the city tells me that this is not going anywhere.

I hope, as is so often the case, that I am wrong. But I don't think that I am.

(02-19-2024 03:49 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  It will be interesting to see how this goes. From what I understand, if just there is just a 10% reduction in the truck hauling productivity supplying NY---there will be major and unpredictable supply and food chain issues. In other words, it really wouldnt take all that many truckers to have a profound affect on NY. I hope the truckers are successful----being taught a lesson by none other than the common middle class truckers couldnt happen to a more arrogant and overly entitled lot.

(02-19-2024 02:09 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  

(02-19-2024 01:30 PM)AdoptedMonarch Wrote:  

(02-19-2024 01:10 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  It is early. No telling yet if this boycott will spread far and wide enough to have an impact. Sure would be a shame if NY folks suffered for being stupid with who they support politically and the methods those corrupt fools employ.

While I love the thought of bringing NYC to its figurative knees - - and God knows they deserve it - - it is sadly NOT too early to say that this idea, clever as it is, will not work.

Literally hundreds of trucks poor into NYC every minute of every day. If this protest were to have any traction at all, we would know about it in real time. That we are not already hearing about supply-chain problems for the city tells me that this is not going anywhere.

I hope, as is so often the case, that I am wrong. But I don't think that I am.

The boycott is supposed to be starting Monday (TODAY). Give it time before announcing it a failure.

(02-19-2024 03:29 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Darwin Award Nominees.

(02-19-2024 03:54 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(02-19-2024 03:49 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  It will be interesting to see how this goes. From what I understand, if just there is just a 10% reduction in the truck hauling productivity supplying NY---there will be major and unpredictable supply and food chain issues. In other words, it really wouldnt take all that many truckers to have a profound affect on NY. I hope the truckers are successful----being taught a lesson by none other than the common middle class truckers couldnt happen to a more arrogant and overly entitled lot.

Freight is effectively bid to brokers, might be a 10% increase in the cost if enough people drop out of the bidding but as soon as it starts paying more to drive there than somewhere else then people will take that freight.

I’m also guessing that while owner operators have the ability to just not take freight from brokers if they don’t want to go there the mega carrier employee drivers don’t have the freedom to refuse routes too often.