Oct 1 trucker strike posts are everywhere — is it actually happening, and should I stock up on anything?
My feed is full of park-your-rig-on-Oct-1 videos over diesel prices. I have seen this movie before. Nobody I trust has pointed to an actual union or association calling for a strike. Is this real? And if it is just noise, why do the diesel numbers still scare me — the national average is over six dollars a gallon, which is no joke.
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- Skip the panic-buying, watch the diesel numbers.
Do not panic-buy. No national union or trucking association has called for a strike. OOIDA — over 150,000 members — says it is not aware of any planned action, and says owner-operators cannot legally coordinate one without running into antitrust trouble. So the October 1 posts are noise. The real story is the fuel: national diesel average over six dollars a gallon, up roughly two-thirds from a year ago. That squeezes small carriers whether anyone strikes or not. Buy your normal groceries.