Truckers Hold Meeting in New Port Richey Florida
May 11th, 2008 . by owneropeSaturday, May 10th 2008
| Around 100 truckers held a meeting in New Port Richey Florida Yesterday to discuss fuel related issues affecting the trucking industry.
At the meeting was State Senator Mike Fasano from District 11. Also in attendance was a VP from the Florida Trucking Association Matt Ubben. The meeting was put together by Robert Solfio, the owner of Big Tiger Trucking. David Mika of the Fla Petroleum Council was invited but backed out at the last minute. Also there was OOU Inc Board Member Pat Kramer. 3 Tv & Media groups were also present. |
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| Most of the discussion was on fuel, and the crowd was rather unhappy with the answers that were given by the Senator. While the crowd was rather loud through most of the speeches, things got quite as a mouse when OOU board member Pat Kramer handed her cell phone to Robert Solfio, who in turn then placed the microphone to the phone. On the other end of the line was OOU Inc CEO Dan Little. Dan first started out by thanking all the truckers for their hard work, then he asked the Senator if he would actually stand up for the truckers. Dan also asked the senator to introduce a bill in Florida to suspend their state fuel tax, to introduce a bill in Florida to give truck owners a 100% Tax Credit on APU purchases, to introduce a bill to create an oversite committee of class 8 truck insurance premiums & last he asked the senator to prove he truly was supporting the truckers by joining the OOU Inc. The senator replied by saying “I could not hear anything he asked”, but refused to talk directly to Mr Little on the phone. |  |
| Everyone in the crowd said they heard Mr Little “Loud & Clear”.
Pat Kramer, The OOU Inc board member from Florida passed out around 50 OOU membership applications. She stated “people were coming up to me asking for the applications to join.” Contacts in Florida Government have been contacted to discuss the above mentioned bills. The OOU is leading the way to represent the trucking industry for Owner Operators and Company Drivers. |
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With CARB and Smartway is comming in full force. These coast’s will hurt..
I think have a great idea how to get help covering these coast’s but don’t no how to get something like this rolling.
SmartCARB surcharge on all freight comming in or out of these CARB adopted States.
Something like 10 or 15% of the Fuel surcharge.
These states wan’t clean air and thats fine with me. Let them cover some of the coast after all its there freight..