Dispatch: Truckers Strike in Shanghai

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STRATFOR's China Director Jennifer Richmond examines new protests in Shanghai over fuel prices, low wages and the fear of growing incidents.

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[Prometheukles]

Stratfor...the news you never hear anywhere else...

[kmg501]

Truckers can shut down any nation and if truckers are complaining, you know things are bad.

I quit trucking in the U.S. because I came to hate the job. The money is terrible (well below minimum wage for OTR drivers) and you have constant anxiety because of being capriciously hassled by DOT and monitored by endless electronics.

You have no civil rights as a trucker and no one gives a shit as long as the food is on the store shelves which you can't get without trucks & truckers...

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[IanJulia328]

all want to say is you don't understand anything rootly about Chinese civil issues.. you only observed event A and the reason for Event A and not further for the reason for that.

[preemptivestrike20]

@cupwithhandles I was thinking the same.

[benzzed]

@cupwithhandles you should see a roadtrain running over a wombat,it,s like running over a large boulder only live,i ran for my life when a 60 ton kenworth hit one,fuck talk about outa control,cheers from oz.

[cupwithhandles]

@benzzed I've seen pictures of those Australian road trains. Incredible

[benzzed]

@kmg501 same in australia,worked with truck drivers all my adult life,you wont get a better person than a trucker any where,hope they shut china down,the ptb will shit themselves ,and yes im a truck driver and we have a saying here in oz ,without trucks australia stops

[cupwithhandles]

The presenter looks like she does some serious dumbbell curls - fit woman.

[nagasako7]

The PRC could fix this problem by increasing taxes on their top income bracket and giving gas subsidies to truckers.

Oh wait news just in. Oil is finite.

Nice job China, you built your economy on cheap labor and will have a under class measured not in the millions but hundreds of millions. As oil prices continue to climb things in China will get "interesting" since their next gen rail system isn't up.

[wormite]

And as a Chinese citizen I also worry about the unrest, not only the government does that.

[tegarac]

this hapening every day in usa and ve dont se RAPORT for that.