Truck driver assaults protester

DaSleeper

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I would just like to add one general comment to this whole discussion................any perceived connection between a person's means of livelihood and their level of intelligence is a sure sign of crass ignorance of the person making the connection as is a connection between level of formal education and level of intelligence. One of the most intelligent people I ever knew, left school after grade 5.
My father never went to school, could barely write his own name....yet was fluent in French, English, Algonquin and Cree .
 

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I would just like to add one general comment to this whole discussion................any perceived connection between a person's means of livelihood and their level of intelligence is a sure sign of crass ignorance of the person making the connection as is a connection between level of formal education and level of intelligence. One of the most intelligent people I ever knew, left school after grade 5.
Naw us common laborers are dummies. Who'd want to bust their azz and end up with arthritis in the spine from heavy lifting or fire hemors from hours of driving sitting on yer butt. The intelligent thing to do would be to extend your formal education as much as you can in order to not suffer the consequences of being a lackey. :).
 

damngrumpy

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I for one would never cross a picket line legal or otherwise.
If it is a legal picket line and a legal strike those behind the
line are what are known as scabs who in the end receive
benefits along with those they betrayed.
Nothing worse than being a scab when the strike ends you
lose your friends and are regarded as a parasite by everyone.
Seen that happen a few times
I have been on both sides as a union person and a general
manager and I will tell you management has no trust is a scab
after all if a scab will sell out his fellow workers he has no
sense of loyalty period. In many cases the management bides
time to rid themselves of scabs they are about as popular as
whistle blowers
 

Cannuck

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Do you really think that a person who hauls 70 tons or more on roads of questionable quality among members of the travelling public have no need to be mature and responsible?

Obviously not by the minimal standards required to be a truck driver. Don't blame me, I don't set them.

And I am still sorry BTW but you shouldn't let your hurt feelings get in the way of common sense. I mean, I think just about anybody would understand that me pointing out the low standard required to drive a truck, does not mean I think it shouldn't be higher. I think Walmart greeters should be under 100 but ultimately, it's not up to me.
 

JLM

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I for one would never cross a picket line legal or otherwise.
If it is a legal picket line and a legal strike those behind the
line are what are known as scabs who in the end receive
benefits along with those they betrayed.
Nothing worse than being a scab when the strike ends you
lose your friends and are regarded as a parasite by everyone.
Seen that happen a few times
I have been on both sides as a union person and a general
manager and I will tell you management has no trust is a scab
after all if a scab will sell out his fellow workers he has no
sense of loyalty period. In many cases the management bides
time to rid themselves of scabs they are about as popular as
whistle blowers

I can cite one example where I did. About 25 years ago when the posties were on strike and they were blocking the post office where I had to go to get my mail. Access to your mail is a universal Canadian right which nobody has the right to impede. The guy didn't like it very much (militant a$$hole) but he got over it. :) :)
 

Ludlow

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I was proud to be in the teamsters when I was 18 , loading 100 pound bags of silica sand all day in a train car where it was about 130 degrees . Making that 3.75 an hour and paying dues so Hoffa could play at least three or four rounds of golf a week.

There's only one down side to trucking - getting out of the cab
They should invent a donut style seat as to relieve the irritant on the hemors. A sitz bath in the cab might not be a bad idea either.
 

lone wolf

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I rode many a mile on a thrownut. Hemmoroids are an occupational hazard - but you gotta specify if it's bright or dull when you tell the doc about rectal blood. Otherwise, you wind up having four feet of hose shoved up your a*s.

Boy howdy ... don't let anyone tell ya that won't set ya a bit cranky ;-)
 

JLM

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Obviously not by the minimal standards required to be a truck driver. Don't blame me, I don't set them.

And I am still sorry BTW but you shouldn't let your hurt feelings get in the way of common sense. I mean, I think just about anybody would understand that me pointing out the low standard required to drive a truck, does not mean I think it shouldn't be higher. I think Walmart greeters should be under 100 but ultimately, it's not up to me.

Hey, your propensity for advertising your gross ignorance is no skin off my A$$. :):)
 

AnnaG

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Did you happen to hear of Jean Chretien, while you were there? I know he was older than you, but his stunt of pretending he had appendicitis just to miss school, must have made him a kind of legend with the kids there...
I heard about it from the hotel clerk when I stayed there for a couple of days on a job related visit to their Paper mill. He had gone to school with Chretien.
With their mill now closed ...I wonder how the town is doing.....?
Shawnigan Lake is a different place than Shawinigan. Shawnigan Lake is in BC and Shawinigan is in QC.

Now I can understand why our locals here call those drivers "dumbtruck drivers" rather than "dumptruck drivers".

Maybe I overestimated you when I called you Wonderlic Teen.
Maybe?
 

AnnaG

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They should have sitz baths available in all those truck stops. :(

Sitz baths full of Preparation H.
And seats like this in the trucks:



I would just like to add one general comment to this whole discussion................any perceived connection between a person's means of livelihood and their level of intelligence is a sure sign of crass ignorance of the person making the connection as is a connection between level of formal education and level of intelligence. One of the most intelligent people I ever knew, left school after grade 5.
....or we are just having fun at truckers' expenses. No-one is safe from being poked in this species. :D

And what the heck is "crass ignorance?"
Redundant.
 

JLM

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So where do I find it in law?

I've no idea, but people do have a right to eat and if they are impeded from that due to a cheque being in the mail, then it's just f**king common sense.....................oops sorry that's something that is foreign to you!:) Just quit asking stupid f**king questions, they just detract from your credibility. :) :)
 

AnnaG

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Why do you keep making statements that give away the fact of your crass ignorance? Do you really think that a person who hauls 70 tons or more on roads of questionable quality among members of the travelling public have no need to be mature and responsible? That would be one sure sign of what an obtuse idiot you really are. (And please don't f**king apologize) :) :)
erm Dumptrucks GVW in BC is about 34,000 kg (that is about 35 tons).

Just sayin'
 

JLM

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What does "law" mean? There is a law on the books prohibiting people from packing water along the streets of Winnipeg in a bucket from November until April. So there you have it wise guy. :)

erm Dumptrucks GVW in BC is about 34,000 kg (that is about 35 tons).

Just sayin'

Yep, but there's a lot of loads heavier than what a dump truck can carry. Even a dump truck can pull a trailer. :)
 

AnnaG

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Anyways, the trucker was in the wrong, but the protestors should have stuck to the sides of the road. That is about all I have seriously to say about it.
 

Cannuck

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I've no idea, but people do have a right to eat and if they are impeded from that due to a cheque being in the mail, then it's just f**king common sense........

Clearly you don't understand what a right is and how they are granted


Just quit asking stupid f**king questions, they just detract from your credibility. :) :)

I know you see them as "stupid f**king questions, but that's only because you can't answer them and they embarrass you. Perhaps you would feel better if you just stopped talking about things you didn't understand or, at the very least, asked for somebody to explain it to you. If you would like, I can start a thread on the charter and I'll explain why getting your mail isn't a right like you think it is. Are you open to learning something?

What does "law" mean? There is a law on the books prohibiting people from packing water along the streets of Winnipeg...

We can add this to the list of things I will explain to you if you want