Go for it truckies.

We rural people have had enough, and it would have the added effect of witholding food from markets for the period.

I would like to see it extend for a couple of weeks to make the government and the city peole realise how valuable the trucking and the rural industry is to them.

The new driving and fatigue regulations for trucks will have a huge effect on transport of livestock and the government will not listen, so you have our full support.

It's about time, this is one of the best ideas.

I hope our govt will finally take note and fix many of the neg impacts it is doing not only to Australia but the the rest of the world.

Cheers Steve

Hopefully, with a bit of luck, this will go Australia wide. I for one would love to see a total shutdown of the industry. Should only take a week or two to bring the country to its knees. Maybe then, some of these anti-truck politicians will wake up to themselves. The NTC needs to be shut down before they totally destroy the industry.

Now those Tories are gone it's time to redress the balance for the ordinary folk. I'm in. Keep it up.

Maybe shutting the trucks down for a couple of weeks will make the politicians sit up and wonder what will happen when this occurs on a permanent basis in a few years time, with the arrival of peak oil. When that really hits home, there will be no trucks on the roads as diesel will be unaffordable. By then of course, it'll be too late to reintroduce the trains and rail freight the govts are so busy shutting down, as in Leongatha - one of the few remaining areas with reasonable rainfall and food-producing potential. Won't the city folks be screaming then as they wander aimlessly down empty supermarket aisles.

A meeting at the BP at Archerfield last Sunday, held by Australian Long Distance Owner Drivers Association and attended by about 150 people, voted to withhold labour as of the 25/05/08 - that's this Sunday.

After the Townsville Meeting, members of the Association in southern states have agreed, it is now up to Townsville to decide as to whether they are willing to support us.

The meeting up north will see representives of ALODA the national president Bunny Brown and Qld state president Lyn Bennett.

All drivers are urged to pull up where they can be seen as of the 25th, in Brisbane we would like all that are willing, to pull up at any of the three road houses BP SHELL or the Pacific.

The rates will not go up without a fight and with out an increase in rates you will not survive.

All the more reason for a bigger railway system comeback.

With a better railway you might actually cut down long haulage delivering more time for truckies to be with their families.

What everyone is forgetting is that this might be along safety lines for all road users.

Truckies blame driving public and vice versa for all the highway woes; rural people against townies, everyone has their place in society.

If a government has to bring in tough legislation then so be it because there are some that have to saved from themselves or injuring others.

Has anyone ever though for one moment that a majority of people happen to think about all road fatalities, truckies and general public alike.

I'm a worker too just like anyone else, I abide by all road regulations because I appreciate my family and would like to go home to them in one piece.

There are bad eggs in all professions just like drivers of both persuasions on our roads.

Weed them out and it will be a hell of a better place.

We have been in the transport industry for over 40 years, most of the changes aren't for the better.

Losing points off your licence for spelling mistakes or drawing a line in the wrong place in your logbook is such a load of s?*#!

2up drivers has been another great success too, the accident rate in WA alone went up over 70% in less than 12 months.

We are being dictated to by a bunch of idiots that have absolutely no idea on how the transport industry works.

Most of the transport associations are either run by bureaucrats that have no firsthand knowledge or for that matter couldn't drive a semi forwards let alone double up a roadtrain, or rogues and thieves that couldn't make it in their own businesses and now bleed the system and dictate on what is "best for the industry".

Staying home looks to be a better option than blockading.

It still delivers the message without the cost of fuel sitting in queues driving around when none of us can afford to waste money.

Cheaper to live at home than sit on the side of the road in the middle of no-where, in the middle of winter.

Spend the time with your families, catch up on your maintenance....... go fishing - just make sure that you take every company driver you know with you so that nobody is working.

This isn't just about fuel prices - this is also about the rest of the rubbish that we have to put up with now in the transport industry.

I cannot wait for the end of July. As a new comer to the owner driver scene, I am finding it very hard to compete with the larger guys, and make a profit or at least cover my truck and house repayments.

We get no respite from fuel prices and when you ask the fuel companies for discount they shun you. I am in 100% just let me know time and date and see how everyone functions with no trucks for a week.

The transport industry really need the backing of TOLL to help out in this shutdown. I just wonder if they will let everyone else out there do the dirty work so they can reap the rewards that we all hope to get out of this exercise.