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In reply to the discussion: Truck Drivers Say They Won't Deliver To Cities with Defunded Police Departments [View all]madville
(7,410 posts)I was speaking about OTR drivers (which this topic was clearly referencing) as they mention they would refuse to deliver to certain cities. You are talking about all CDL drivers across the board, apples and oranges and gonna skew the O/O numbers down. There are an estimated 1.8 million long haul drivers out of that 3.5 million so its actually closer to 20% which is a significant percentage.
Please tell me why an owner operator would "get fired" if they are not under a forced dispatch-type agreement for declining a load to a particular city, I'm all ears. Many owner ops with their own authority or leased under carriers pull the loads they want to, they aren't getting fired for boycotting a city because they choose what lanes they want to run anyway lol.
I don't consider forced dispatched fleece (lease) operators to be owner operators anyway so yes, if they refused a load their carrier could easily terminate their contract.