11 August 2011

Truck convoy into Canberra - Monday 22 August-FYI

11 August 2011 | JessP

I was sent this email this morning…..thought it wise to share with fellow rioters:

My husband works for Harden Shire Council and was advised by the RTA that a very large convoy of trucks will be converging on Canberra on Monday 22 August for a blockade. He suggested I might pass this information on to you.
The trucks are coming from as far afield as Perth, Adelaide, Mt Isa and other points in between. At this stage the RTA do not know how many trucks will be involved but it is intended to be a blockade through the main streets of Canberra, converging on Parliament House. We will be having one convoy staying overnight in Harden – probably double Harden’s population!
There are a total of 9 convoys and below is some detail of the directions the trucks are coming from and the routes they will be taking:

Departing from	Time	Route	Arriving Canberra
Hall	5.30am	Most direct route allowable through Civic centre of town	6.00am
Murrumbateman	5.45am	Gungahlin Dr/Tuggeranong Parkway/Cotter Rd/onto Adelaide Ave	6.45am
Yass	6.00am	Northbourne Ave/Majura Rd/ Morsehead/Kings Ave	7.15am
Goulburn	5.00am	Majura rd/Morsehead/Kings Ave	6.30am
Coolac	6.30am	Northbourne Ave/Majura Rd/ Morsehead/Kings ave	8.30am
Harden	6.00am	Gungahlin Dr/Tuggeranong Parkway/Cotter Rd/onto Adelaide ave	8.00am
Cooma	5.30	Johnson Dr/Drakeford Dr/Tuggeranong Pway/Cotter/Adelaide Ave	7.30am

You might like to let your office colleagues know about this as it is going to stuff up the traffic big time and getting to work that morning could be very problematic.

This link was later sent to me which confirms the the email!

See http://justgroundsonline.com/forum/topics/convoy-of-no-confidence-in-the for details

Batten down the hatches – they are coming to town and they are not happy!!

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Holden Caulfield5:38 pm 12 Oct 11

Given today’s proceedings in Parliament I thought I’d bump this thread with a big SUCKED IN to the Convoy of No Confidence gang.

Childish on my part, but satisfying as well.

Jethro9:50 pm 19 Aug 11

Now I’m posting on the wrong thread.

Jethro9:49 pm 19 Aug 11

The following quote is also somewhat of a concern:

“When the Nation manages to roll the rubbish the infestation will need some serious attention.”

I for one am looking forward to my time in a gulag.

Lazy I9:40 pm 19 Aug 11

Seriously, this conspiracy convoy is the greatest source of free entertainment.

Official Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uESI9COsaHk

Crank it up!

I-filed9:18 pm 19 Aug 11

Lazy I said :

I came up with a conspiracy theory of my own while sipping my chai latte this afternoon.

Truck stops: Large selection of pornography
Canberra: Porn capital of Australia

Just sayin’

Watch out for the inevitable press release from Fiona Patten…

Lazy I8:51 pm 19 Aug 11

I came up with a conspiracy theory of my own while sipping my chai latte this afternoon.

Truck stops: Large selection of pornography
Canberra: Porn capital of Australia

Just sayin’

fgzk4:31 pm 19 Aug 11

That is a good turnout, two days out. Good luck to them. Give it go.

A couple clicks away from your UTube link I stumbled across how they do it in Yemeni. I think I prefer the Australian way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSxpK6zoryQ&sns=fb

Lazy I said :

KB1971 said :

They are on their way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNC_Qnnh6E&sns=fb

1/2 Dozen trucks, a few evil 4WD’ers (how dare they…..) what looks like a Hybrid Camry & a Corolla (surely they are lost), a few grey nomads slipstreaming their way south & get this A DODGE RAM (from the land of plenty rape & pillage), the most evil vehicle of all!!!!!

Seriously though, this was supposedly taken at Ingham, there is not really many of them so it will be interesting to see how many actually turn up. I suspect it will be more orderly than everybody is predicting.

It better pick up some serious pace… 10,000 was the number being thrown around on 104.7 this morning lol.

Lazy I3:13 pm 19 Aug 11

KB1971 said :

They are on their way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNC_Qnnh6E&sns=fb

1/2 Dozen trucks, a few evil 4WD’ers (how dare they…..) what looks like a Hybrid Camry & a Corolla (surely they are lost), a few grey nomads slipstreaming their way south & get this A DODGE RAM (from the land of plenty rape & pillage), the most evil vehicle of all!!!!!

Seriously though, this was supposedly taken at Ingham, there is not really many of them so it will be interesting to see how many actually turn up. I suspect it will be more orderly than everybody is predicting.

It better pick up some serious pace… 10,000 was the number being thrown around on 104.7 this morning lol.

KB19712:21 pm 19 Aug 11

They are on their way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNC_Qnnh6E&sns=fb

1/2 Dozen trucks, a few evil 4WD’ers (how dare they…..) what looks like a Hybrid Camry & a Corolla (surely they are lost), a few grey nomads slipstreaming their way south & get this A DODGE RAM (from the land of plenty rape & pillage), the most evil vehicle of all!!!!!

Seriously though, this was supposedly taken at Ingham, there is not really many of them so it will be interesting to see how many actually turn up. I suspect it will be more orderly than everybody is predicting.

gorinosho11:30 am 19 Aug 11

Parliament should urgently introduce an act to ban the assemblage of heavy vehicles within the Parliamentary Triangle, on risk of seizure of the vehicles. What other group in this country, other than truckies, has this ability to shove their views down the throats of others?

As for those of you planning on cycling down Northbourne Avenue while the trucks are rolling in, you must be more stupid than they are. Do you know how many cyclists get hit or killed on that road every year, with just regular traffic? You’re Darwin Award nominees in the making.

Jim Jones9:44 am 18 Aug 11

Skyring said :

Jethro said :

Skyring said :

Baldy said :

Being amused because of people you assume to be Labor pointing out that liberal has done the same thing isn’t the same as diverting the issue, it is simply pointing out that neither party can take the moral ground on this as both are guilty of the same thing.

it is a move away from accepting the truth, like a child saying “But Johnnie and Tony did it too!”

As a parent, this argument never impressed me as a response to poor behaviour.

Well if you decided to punish said child by giving their reward to Tony and their response was, ‘but Tony did it too’, that would seem a completely reasonable response from the child and an unreasonable response from the parent.

That response don’t impress me much, neither.

What I’d really like is for Julia to lift her game. The reason she’s so low in the polls is not because the voters think Tony has all the answers, but because they think Julia hasn’t.

The Australian populace isn’t homogenous and not all people think the same. There are a stack of reasons why Julia is polling poorly.

– a highly effective negative campaign from the opposition (personally, I think that this is destructive and morally objectionable, but it’s proven to be really really effective)
– the rise of the Green Party as a meaningful third party alternative (combined with Labor’s continuing lurch to the right) has seen the party progressively bleeding it’s left-wing supporters
– a number of rent-seeking industries (and media outlets) instigating expensive marketing campaigns against government policy
– extremely poor communication to the general public about basic policy (this combining with the reduction in spending on government advertising – which was certainly the morally correct thing to do, but was politically stupid)
– there’s also been an increasing amount of cases of the government coming up with policy on-the-run in disastrous attempts to win political favour and follow the short-term media cycle (the way that immigration, live export meat trade, etc., has been handled is wantonly stupid and cynical).
– the reptoid conspiracy

colourful sydney racing identity2:28 pm 17 Aug 11

qbngeek said :

Ben_Dover said :

These are the sort of people we are dealing with…

Hi Russ and others I spent the entire day yesterday campaigning for the Convoy in Brisbane and there is one thing that is certain you cannot do it on the uhf radio as as soon as you mention anything about any topic that we are concerned with you get an instant barrage of drivers who think that whatever is done is a laugh and a bit of a gigle you cannot get back onto the line as you are shouted down and told you are an idiot . Was asked who would be stupid enough to drive their truck all the way to Canberra and back and waste all that fuel and money when it would achieve nothing , when told that if we didnt do anything they may not be sitting in thier trucks this time next year as the repo boys would have driven off with their trucks . Another wise guy reckons he was driving a truck and his fat

boss was putting 5000grand a week in his pocket and he was only getting stavation money ,when told the truth of the matter would not have it . So finally I had to admit defeat and I drove back home to Warwick and chatted to a couple of guys who would talk a bit of sense while is was driving home and the UHF had a clear channel ,they said they would when they see us rolling through are going to join us for as far as they could . I am convinced after yesteday episode that the best way to approach men is 1 on 1 in the cafeteria’s and lunch rooms to approach the couriers when they come to deliver and so forth but WE WILL PREVAIL . and if it is only me rolling out of here on the 20th then I will go forth Proud to represent the people that I leave behind

Hand up all who wish to hand control of our democratic process over to them….

So judging from this post (its hard to tell with rubbish punctuation and no paragraghs) it would appear that the truckies don’t even support them…so why the frick are they coming?

Front group for the Reptoid invasion.

Jim Jones12:41 pm 17 Aug 11

chewy14 said :

Jim Jones,
seeing as what, 85%? of the electorate voted for parties with a no carbon tax platform, I think it’s pretty reasonable that people are angry over this.
The may not be expressing themselves very well but that’s another issue.

I understand your point, but, to be frank, the idea that people voted for a party *because* they had a no carbon platform is patently ludicrous. I’ll give $100 bucks to anyone who talked to friends, relatives or coworkers after the last election and heard any of them say – “I voted for Labor because they said that they won’t have a carbon tax”. It was a non-issue. It’s only become an issue retrospectively because it suits a political game. The government was upfront about wanting an ETS, and the carbon tax isn’t radically different. It would be just easy to argue that people voted for the government “because they wanted action on climate change” – and this explanation is just as simplistic and reductive, and has the same basic misunderstanding of the Australian political process.

In Australia, we elect a government who then proceeds to go about the business of policy. This is a pragmatic business, particularly in current circumstances when there is a minority government and a lot of negotiation, compromise and bargaining needs to be done. When circumstances change, you change with them – to do anything different is stupid and dangerous.

Yes, the current government has lost a lot of trust on this (and other) issues, and has played the politics extremely badly. The opposition has played the politics extremely well. But, by and large, current government policy isn’t too bad – particularly compared with the utter sh1t offered up by the opposition (note that there isn’t a single respected economist or climate change expert who supports their policy – and it looks like they’ll need a starting point of $70 billion dollars in ‘savings’ if they intend to not break their promises to the electorate).

Most people are angry about the carbon tax because they’ve been fed bullsh1t about it by a scare campaign from the opposition, supported by a stack of greedy, rent-seeking industries. The carbon tax is so low-key that the effect on daily life when it takes effect will be completely negligible – every single economist worth his or her salt will tell you that. The impact on cost of living from the carbon tax pales into insignificance when compared with the ordinary market forces that are in play.

It’s policy that is important and effects what happens to this country and all of us as individual. The mindless focus on ‘gotcha’ politics (from all sides of the political spectrum) is stupid and demeaning to us all and is leading to a situation where we’re almost as bad as the US in our inane ignorance and obsession with women’s weekly personality politics.

dpm2:01 pm 16 Aug 11

ProudtobeAussie said :

The comments I’ve read so far in regards to the “Convoy of No cofidence” really dont surprise me. It is a pefect example attitude that many of the “latte belt” dwellers of this country have about the rest of the country. Yes Im talking about rural and regional Australia. This convoy is not about a bunch of whingers who want to disrupt your morning drive to pick up your latte on the way to work. This is about true Australians, the truck drivers, the cattle station workers, the guys and girls that work in the mining industry, the average Austalian, like myself who have had enough of being “LIED” to by the current federal government who “WAS NOT” voted in by the Australian people but put in place by the back room bartering of the greens and independents. This Convoy is a way of expressing the thoughts of thousands of rural and regional Australians who have been deliberately lied to by the Government of this country. Oh and before the jokes about the RM Williams boots, country bumpkins etc etc start, no I dont work as a truckie, cattleman or in any rural industry. I am a self educated hard working Australian, who got off his ass, put himself through university to obtain his diploma, started his own business 20 years ago (which is still operating today) father of three well mannered educated children. I am also a tax paying Australian citizen who feels betrayed and lied to by this current federal government and this is my way of expressing my “Vote of No confidence in the Government”

I don’t want to sound pedantic, but ABS stats show that almost 70% of the popn live in Major Cities, with the rest in the 4 other standard ‘remoteness area’ categories. I can understand that many truck drivers might live in Major cities, but I doubt many cattle station workers or miners live in major cities. So, they couldn’t technically be ‘average’ Australians, based on population numbers….
Anyway, good luck next Monday. Make sure you spend a few $$ while you’re here in Canberra! 🙂

qbngeek1:21 pm 16 Aug 11

ProudtobeAussie said :

The comments I’ve read so far in regards to the “Convoy of No cofidence” really dont surprise me. It is a pefect example attitude that many of the “latte belt” dwellers of this country have about the rest of the country. Yes Im talking about rural and regional Australia. This convoy is not about a bunch of whingers who want to disrupt your morning drive to pick up your latte on the way to work. This is about true Australians, the truck drivers, the cattle station workers, the guys and girls that work in the mining industry, the average Austalian, like myself who have had enough of being “LIED” to by the current federal government who “WAS NOT” voted in by the Australian people but put in place by the back room bartering of the greens and independents. This Convoy is a way of expressing the thoughts of thousands of rural and regional Australians who have been deliberately lied to by the Government of this country. Oh and before the jokes about the RM Williams boots, country bumpkins etc etc start, no I dont work as a truckie, cattleman or in any rural industry. I am a self educated hard working Australian, who got off his ass, put himself through university to obtain his diploma, started his own business 20 years ago (which is still operating today) father of three well mannered educated children. I am also a tax paying Australian citizen who feels betrayed and lied to by this current federal government and this is my way of expressing my “Vote of No confidence in the Government”

Would you like to see my birth certificate?? I am a ‘true australian’. In fact I can provide a documented history of my family tree which shows my family arrived here in 1790 with the second fleet…yours?

Also, I don’t drink latte, i find it repulsive and too milky. I have my coffee black and two, same way I have my tea.

So the average Australian is ‘the truck drivers, the cattle station workers, the guys and girls that work in the mining industry’? I can’t wait to see the Census results to see how many people actually work in those industries. I dare say it won’t be enough to make them the average.

So Mr ‘True Aussie’ lets answer some questions to see how ‘Australian’ you are?
– How long did you spend in the ADF? It was five years for me before I blew out my knee.
– How many times were you deployed in that time to represent your country? 3 times for myself.
– How often do you volunteer in the community? I coach soccer, am a scout leader, teach archery to disabled kids and assist my wife to cook for several elderly people.
– When was the last time you truly contributed to the country without personal gain?
– When was the last time you contacted your local MP and asked to speak to them about the issues that affect you? I did it just before the last election to see if they actually wanted to help fix things….guess what, the Liberal canidate really couldn’t care less because it was already in the bag.
– How much of the country have you seen? I have seen most of it and have taken my kids through a fair chunk of it as well.

There are many other things I could ask and these things do not make you Australian, what does is being an Australian citizen and loving the country we live in. You have no right to determine who the true Australians are or what they represent…so pull your f***ing head in.

Gungahlin Al7:28 pm 14 Aug 11

blueheeler said :

For all the detractors (different word to tractor) of this “Convoy of no Confindence” on here there are a few points to clear up.
1) These people of Australia are not rednecks, nutters, truckies or any other derogatory term that you want to use. They are citizens of Asutralia.
2) This NOT a blockade of Canberra and in fact the convoy will be doing one round the “The Circle” and then PARKING THEIR VEHICLES in pre arranged parking areas and then attending the protest rally at parliment house.
3) These convoys have been well organized, are being coordinated with both state police and AFP and all travel times are in accordance with the trucking industry log book regulations. The people organizing this convoy are not “tools”, nutters”, “country hicks” or “rednecks” and the reference to those types of names tells how ignorant people using those terms are.
4) If you ARE really concerned about what is going on and how it is organized and what the agenda etc. is then go to the Just Grounds website and READ the imformation and make imformed comment and not just “redneck” comments like you have been doing here.
5) One of the original negative commenters on here has since gone to the Just Grounds site, read the imformation, joined the group, identified themselves to the group, retracted their adverse comments previously posted here and will be joining the convoy in the Canberra area on the 22 nd Aug. Another two previous adverse commenters on here have since joined the just grounds group, have voted YES to the convoy petition and are also joining the convoy. IT ALWAYS PAYS TO MAKE IMFORMED DECISIONS.

What utterly “imformed” (sic) nonsense.

The timetable alone makes it blatently clear that they intend bringing vehicles in on every single significant route into Canberra. How could anyone believe for a second that isn’t intended to cause maximum disruption.

As Postalgeek said, Canberra is a city of *residents* not a congregation of politicians.

And to think that the so called “shock jocks” – legends in their own lunchboxes one and all that it seems you all spend far too much time listening to on your long drives and who incidentally won’t be losing a cent of heir outrageous incomes – have somehow convinced you that this major expenditure of fuel and effort by you all will make one zot of difference… It is laughable.

There will be no early election. There will be a carbon tax brought in. And the sky will not fall. Having seen the sky still in its usual spot, the general population will end up wondering what all the fuss was about. And then the polls will turn – whether by enough for the ALP to stay in office or not remains to be seen. It will depend a lot on whether TonyNoBot remains in the top spot pedalling his endless negativity or they put Turnbull back in, having realised that at least he can talk sense and come up with some actual policy ideas of his own. My personal opinion.

I trust you’ll quickly realise the folly of your efforts and get back to business before you default on the next repayments on your rigs.

BTW: I’ll be the one on the bicycle riding straight past, hindered not one jot and probably flipping you the bird.

Postalgeek1:35 pm 14 Aug 11

blueheeler said :

2) This NOT a blockade of Canberra and in fact the convoy will be doing one round the “The Circle” and then PARKING THEIR VEHICLES in pre arranged parking areas and then attending the protest rally at parliment house
….
4) If you ARE really concerned about what is going on and how it is organized and what the agenda etc. is then go to the Just Grounds website and READ the imformation and make imformed comment and not just “redneck” comments like you have been doing here….IT ALWAYS PAYS TO MAKE IMFORMED DECISIONS.

Well, either your head doesn’t know what your arse is saying or you’ve been misreported. Just to remind you, the Queensland Country Life paraphrased Mrs Ranacher, supposedly one of the lead speakers for the protest, as saying that :

…[she] backed plans by the convoy organisers to stage a sit-in in Canberra and to hold the city in gridlock until the Government, its supporters or the Governor-General agree to a new election.

You may say that statement is open to interpretation, but I’d say that the interpretations are few; the convoy wants to hold the daily lives of Canberrans, who have nothing to do with all the politicians sent by people like you to Canberra, to ransom until the convoy (a small percent of the Australian population) strongarms a negation of the result of a democratic process.

And you sit there scratching your arse wondering why there’s so much hostility, and accusing people of being ignorant and uninformed.

You either need to bang the heads of spokespeople for the convoy, bang heads of reporters at the Queensland Country Life, or accept that you didn’t think through your hyperbolic dribble.

I believe there are participants who have informed misgivings about government policy and seek to legitimately voice their concerns publicly. I believe there are also participants driven by prejudice who are regurgitating whatever conservative media has fed them and wouldn’t have a clue about the policies they are protesting and the limitations of minority government.

blueheeler said :

For all the detractors (different word to tractor) of this “Convoy of no Confindence” on here there are a few points to clear up.
1) These people of Australia are not rednecks, nutters, truckies or any other derogatory term that you want to use. They are citizens of Asutralia.

Don’t get too worked up. Town and country give as good as they receive, and snobs come in all shapes and sizes, and from all demographics. For every ‘hick’ there is a ‘chardonnay-sipping leftie yuppy’. All groups are equal when it comes to bigotry.

00davist10:50 pm 12 Aug 11

Disinformation said :

It appears that the truckies have read this entire thread.
Some have experienced a sense of humour failure about Tharwa commuters and concrete barriers mentioned here.

http://justgroundsonline.com/forum/topics/important-convoy-information?xg_source=activity

Just had a look… So Solidarity was not the only one who missed the joke!

As for the Blockade comments,

1) I notice it’s just RA under attack there, I think someone should let them in on the fact that the email in the original post, has been flying all over Canberra like wild fire.

I for one had read the email before it was up here, as had the person who sent it to me and so on.

2) While i understand they may find it upsetting that there intentions have been mis-judged, and that a number of people did not fully sift through everything, but just knee-jerked to the original email (Myself included) I would have thought a few more of them might understand how you can get a bit ahead of yourself when you believe someone is about to block your drive. I assume at least some of them know how frustrating roadblocks of any kind can be.

3) I am very glad, and relieved to read that there is not any blockade of any form planned, just the convoy. I have absolutely no issue with them protesting, I don’t necessarily hold their exact views (I don’t necessarily disagree) but they have as much right as anyone to protest, and seeing as they have now clears up the inconvenience issue, I withdraw any objections.

Naturally there will probably still be some traffic disruption, but that will be much less than assumed, and, is a side effect of having such a large group, as opposed to the direct aim.

However, while i retract my objection, My comments regarding moving a good number of tonnes of cement barricades with my box trailer and Honda Civic, then using said stolen goods to create a 10km road block, while utilising nearby sculptures, that miraculously come to life to help me by holding things up to stop trucks, while the police decide they don’t care about any of this, i will not retract.

Anyone who can’t workout that’s a joke, you really need to try harder next time.

Oh, as for the truckie who wants to ‘Offer me the keys’ for a giggle… I might just surprise him, I don’t just own a Civic you know!

00davist10:02 pm 12 Aug 11

Solidarity said :

00davist said :

Classified said :

00davist said :

ConanOfCooma said :

Ah, they leave Cooma just as I do. Fear not, Cooma commuters, I shall make it my mission to get to the front of the convoy, and I will slow them down to 20ks an hour, so you can all overtake with a minimum of fuss.

Yes, Mr.Truck Drivers, I shall be going slower than you. Don’t try overtake now, that just means I will have to speed up until that next hill you can’t climb.

Fair enough if you protested against the people causing you shit, but as a commuter, if you wanna f*** with my drive more than YOU ALREADY DO, then this is war.

Although i do understand the point made about needing to attract more attention than a letter, As a fellow commuter (Out past braidwood) I share your concerns.

I am thiniking i might ‘borrow’ some roadwork signs, and divert coastbound traffic (smaller flow) through tarago,and then back onto the kings, therefore compleatly freeing up the eastbound lane to overtake truck for the commuters.

If you got ahead with some cones and detour signs the night before, you could divert the cooma bound morning traffic at least through tharwa, and out at williamsdale, and free up the southbound lane from williamsdale to theodore, so that commuters could get around the trucks, all you need to do then is have a few people vouteer to help slow them down.

It looks likt they may not be bothering with the monaro past theodore (they have drakeford listed) so after that you may well be fine.

I like the think the ballsier approach would be to divert the convoy itself along Olf Bobeyan Road.

That could work…

I was starting to think that once you clear up the south bound lane, ‘borrow’ a bunch of cement dividers, and seperate the two lanes for about 10k, making sure, where you first fork them, only one is accessable to trucks (Maybe get that robo-man sculpture to hold onto a rod for you, one thats just too low for trucks, but high enough for cars) then you create two northbound lanes, one for trucks, one for cars.

Put a cement road block at the end of the one for trucks.

Sit back.

Laugh.

So you’ve just pissed off a bunch of truckies, who are on the road almost 24/7 and have your rego… not only that, but the rest of the convoys roll in smoothly.

Smart.

…You didn’t realise that was tongue in cheek when I got to the theft of a good couple of tonnes of Cement road blocks (On my car trailer too!) and used them to divert traffic over a full 10Km of Highway (That’s an awful lot of cement dividers for my little Honda!)?

…Congrats!

00davist9:42 pm 12 Aug 11

Solidarity said :

00davist said :

Classified said :

00davist said :

ConanOfCooma said :

Ah, they leave Cooma just as I do. Fear not, Cooma commuters, I shall make it my mission to get to the front of the convoy, and I will slow them down to 20ks an hour, so you can all overtake with a minimum of fuss.

Yes, Mr.Truck Drivers, I shall be going slower than you. Don’t try overtake now, that just means I will have to speed up until that next hill you can’t climb.

Fair enough if you protested against the people causing you shit, but as a commuter, if you wanna f*** with my drive more than YOU ALREADY DO, then this is war.

Although i do understand the point made about needing to attract more attention than a letter, As a fellow commuter (Out past braidwood) I share your concerns.

I am thiniking i might ‘borrow’ some roadwork signs, and divert coastbound traffic (smaller flow) through tarago,and then back onto the kings, therefore compleatly freeing up the eastbound lane to overtake truck for the commuters.

If you got ahead with some cones and detour signs the night before, you could divert the cooma bound morning traffic at least through tharwa, and out at williamsdale, and free up the southbound lane from williamsdale to theodore, so that commuters could get around the trucks, all you need to do then is have a few people vouteer to help slow them down.

It looks likt they may not be bothering with the monaro past theodore (they have drakeford listed) so after that you may well be fine.

I like the think the ballsier approach would be to divert the convoy itself along Olf Bobeyan Road.

That could work…

I was starting to think that once you clear up the south bound lane, ‘borrow’ a bunch of cement dividers, and seperate the two lanes for about 10k, making sure, where you first fork them, only one is accessable to trucks (Maybe get that robo-man sculpture to hold onto a rod for you, one thats just too low for trucks, but high enough for cars) then you create two northbound lanes, one for trucks, one for cars.

Put a cement road block at the end of the one for trucks.

Sit back.

Laugh.

So you’ve just pissed off a bunch of truckies, who are on the road almost 24/7 and have your rego… not only that, but the rest of the convoys roll in smoothly.

Smart.

…You didn’t realise that was tongue in cheek when I got to the theft of a good couple of tonnes of Cement road blocks (On my car trailer too!) and used them to divert traffic over a huge number of highway kilometers?

…Congrats!

00davist9:25 pm 12 Aug 11

Solidarity said :

00davist said :

Classified said :

00davist said :

ConanOfCooma said :

Ah, they leave Cooma just as I do. Fear not, Cooma commuters, I shall make it my mission to get to the front of the convoy, and I will slow them down to 20ks an hour, so you can all overtake with a minimum of fuss.

Yes, Mr.Truck Drivers, I shall be going slower than you. Don’t try overtake now, that just means I will have to speed up until that next hill you can’t climb.

Fair enough if you protested against the people causing you shit, but as a commuter, if you wanna f*** with my drive more than YOU ALREADY DO, then this is war.

Although i do understand the point made about needing to attract more attention than a letter, As a fellow commuter (Out past braidwood) I share your concerns.

I am thiniking i might ‘borrow’ some roadwork signs, and divert coastbound traffic (smaller flow) through tarago,and then back onto the kings, therefore compleatly freeing up the eastbound lane to overtake truck for the commuters.

If you got ahead with some cones and detour signs the night before, you could divert the cooma bound morning traffic at least through tharwa, and out at williamsdale, and free up the southbound lane from williamsdale to theodore, so that commuters could get around the trucks, all you need to do then is have a few people vouteer to help slow them down.

It looks likt they may not be bothering with the monaro past theodore (they have drakeford listed) so after that you may well be fine.

I like the think the ballsier approach would be to divert the convoy itself along Olf Bobeyan Road.

That could work…

I was starting to think that once you clear up the south bound lane, ‘borrow’ a bunch of cement dividers, and seperate the two lanes for about 10k, making sure, where you first fork them, only one is accessable to trucks (Maybe get that robo-man sculpture to hold onto a rod for you, one thats just too low for trucks, but high enough for cars) then you create two northbound lanes, one for trucks, one for cars.

Put a cement road block at the end of the one for trucks.

Sit back.

Laugh.

So you’ve just pissed off a bunch of truckies, who are on the road almost 24/7 and have your rego… not only that, but the rest of the convoys roll in smoothly.

Smart.

…And you didn’t realise this was a tongue in cheek comment when it came to stealing a few tonnes of road diversion equipment?

…OK!

Solidarity4:55 pm 12 Aug 11

00davist said :

Classified said :

00davist said :

ConanOfCooma said :

Ah, they leave Cooma just as I do. Fear not, Cooma commuters, I shall make it my mission to get to the front of the convoy, and I will slow them down to 20ks an hour, so you can all overtake with a minimum of fuss.

Yes, Mr.Truck Drivers, I shall be going slower than you. Don’t try overtake now, that just means I will have to speed up until that next hill you can’t climb.

Fair enough if you protested against the people causing you shit, but as a commuter, if you wanna f*** with my drive more than YOU ALREADY DO, then this is war.

Although i do understand the point made about needing to attract more attention than a letter, As a fellow commuter (Out past braidwood) I share your concerns.

I am thiniking i might ‘borrow’ some roadwork signs, and divert coastbound traffic (smaller flow) through tarago,and then back onto the kings, therefore compleatly freeing up the eastbound lane to overtake truck for the commuters.

If you got ahead with some cones and detour signs the night before, you could divert the cooma bound morning traffic at least through tharwa, and out at williamsdale, and free up the southbound lane from williamsdale to theodore, so that commuters could get around the trucks, all you need to do then is have a few people vouteer to help slow them down.

It looks likt they may not be bothering with the monaro past theodore (they have drakeford listed) so after that you may well be fine.

I like the think the ballsier approach would be to divert the convoy itself along Olf Bobeyan Road.

That could work…

I was starting to think that once you clear up the south bound lane, ‘borrow’ a bunch of cement dividers, and seperate the two lanes for about 10k, making sure, where you first fork them, only one is accessable to trucks (Maybe get that robo-man sculpture to hold onto a rod for you, one thats just too low for trucks, but high enough for cars) then you create two northbound lanes, one for trucks, one for cars.

Put a cement road block at the end of the one for trucks.

Sit back.

Laugh.

So you’ve just pissed off a bunch of truckies, who are on the road almost 24/7 and have your rego… not only that, but the rest of the convoys roll in smoothly.

Smart.

Classified3:41 pm 12 Aug 11

00davist said :

Classified said :

00davist said :

ConanOfCooma said :

Ah, they leave Cooma just as I do. Fear not, Cooma commuters, I shall make it my mission to get to the front of the convoy, and I will slow them down to 20ks an hour, so you can all overtake with a minimum of fuss.

Yes, Mr.Truck Drivers, I shall be going slower than you. Don’t try overtake now, that just means I will have to speed up until that next hill you can’t climb.

Fair enough if you protested against the people causing you shit, but as a commuter, if you wanna f*** with my drive more than YOU ALREADY DO, then this is war.

Although i do understand the point made about needing to attract more attention than a letter, As a fellow commuter (Out past braidwood) I share your concerns.

I am thiniking i might ‘borrow’ some roadwork signs, and divert coastbound traffic (smaller flow) through tarago,and then back onto the kings, therefore compleatly freeing up the eastbound lane to overtake truck for the commuters.

If you got ahead with some cones and detour signs the night before, you could divert the cooma bound morning traffic at least through tharwa, and out at williamsdale, and free up the southbound lane from williamsdale to theodore, so that commuters could get around the trucks, all you need to do then is have a few people vouteer to help slow them down.

It looks likt they may not be bothering with the monaro past theodore (they have drakeford listed) so after that you may well be fine.

I like the think the ballsier approach would be to divert the convoy itself along Olf Bobeyan Road.

That could work…

I was starting to think that once you clear up the south bound lane, ‘borrow’ a bunch of cement dividers, and seperate the two lanes for about 10k, making sure, where you first fork them, only one is accessable to trucks (Maybe get that robo-man sculpture to hold onto a rod for you, one thats just too low for trucks, but high enough for cars) then you create two northbound lanes, one for trucks, one for cars.

Put a cement road block at the end of the one for trucks.

Sit back.

Laugh.

LMAO!

Hey – any chance we could use that concrete lane barrier on the Monaro Hwy where that truck got stuck doing the lane change the other day? Now THAT would be funny.

00davist3:30 pm 12 Aug 11

Classified said :

00davist said :

ConanOfCooma said :

Ah, they leave Cooma just as I do. Fear not, Cooma commuters, I shall make it my mission to get to the front of the convoy, and I will slow them down to 20ks an hour, so you can all overtake with a minimum of fuss.

Yes, Mr.Truck Drivers, I shall be going slower than you. Don’t try overtake now, that just means I will have to speed up until that next hill you can’t climb.

Fair enough if you protested against the people causing you shit, but as a commuter, if you wanna f*** with my drive more than YOU ALREADY DO, then this is war.

Although i do understand the point made about needing to attract more attention than a letter, As a fellow commuter (Out past braidwood) I share your concerns.

I am thiniking i might ‘borrow’ some roadwork signs, and divert coastbound traffic (smaller flow) through tarago,and then back onto the kings, therefore compleatly freeing up the eastbound lane to overtake truck for the commuters.

If you got ahead with some cones and detour signs the night before, you could divert the cooma bound morning traffic at least through tharwa, and out at williamsdale, and free up the southbound lane from williamsdale to theodore, so that commuters could get around the trucks, all you need to do then is have a few people vouteer to help slow them down.

It looks likt they may not be bothering with the monaro past theodore (they have drakeford listed) so after that you may well be fine.

I like the think the ballsier approach would be to divert the convoy itself along Olf Bobeyan Road.

That could work…

I was starting to think that once you clear up the south bound lane, ‘borrow’ a bunch of cement dividers, and seperate the two lanes for about 10k, making sure, where you first fork them, only one is accessable to trucks (Maybe get that robo-man sculpture to hold onto a rod for you, one thats just too low for trucks, but high enough for cars) then you create two northbound lanes, one for trucks, one for cars.

Put a cement road block at the end of the one for trucks.

Sit back.

Laugh.

00davist2:03 pm 12 Aug 11

Northwest9 said :

00davist said :

With your first point, I guess you are right, I just wish there was a way they could effectively target the right people, and leave the rest of us out of it, however, when you look at the goings on in other countries (Try England) i guess we have it pretty good when it comes to people with grievances disturbing our ways, I would much rather they make me a little late to work, than burn my car!

With your second point, that’s your opinion on the issue, my problem is, for everyone who is so strongly against it, there is another equally for it.

I know this is exaggeration, but it feels like I have one mob telling me it will save the earth, cure cancer, and replace Ivan Milat with fluffy bunnies…

Plus rainbows!

and the other mob telling me the moment it comes in, 95% of the population will suffer a simultaneous heart attack AND DIE, while the rest have to live on in ruins, dodging chunks off falling sky… Plus Rainbows, Black Rainbows!

When you have such amazing hype on each side, it’s hard to take anyone for real (Not a shot at you mate, just the overall hit of it, in my opinion!)

I guess I feel it wont be in either way, all it is cracked up to be, It wont save the earth, and it wont desiccate our economy, it will just do a little bit to make us a touch cleaner, and tighten a few wallets.

IE: Vaguely Effective, Mostly Harmless!

i dont think it will have any effect on the environment, not until china and india follow suit. its kinda like saying if i dont fart while working in a sewage plant, ill fix the smell….

but at the end of the day, its just another tax im not going to be able to do anything about, so there isnt much point in me getting all upset about it.

infact the best thing about the carbon tax is it appears to be turning the population against juliar and her merry band of green controlled muppets, and opening peoples eyes up to how dangerously out of touch with economic management the greens are

I cas see what you are getting at there, and yes, I beleive we are past turnback with this govt. and the c.tax, so I gues now become where we get to find out what the outcome will be.

My concern with the no-confidence in the Govt. is the current opposition, I cant see how they will be any better what so ever, Let’s face it, Abott tried to woo the Independants with “I will do ANYTHING you want” so in reality, if they had gone with him, alot of what he is up in arms about, he would instead be doing.

I strongly beleive there is also no confidence left in the Coalition, and that Tony is a major part of that, there seems to be a large number of people who would prefer the Co. but despise Tony (See polls leading too and comming out of the last election, labor down, lib up, BUT, Juliar up, Tony down, whitch i read to mean “We want the party, but not ist’s leader)

I honestly dont know anymore if this govt will hold out to the next scheduled election, or if all the pressure will force an early one, I just hope they can hold out long enough to see us a change in opposition leader, whitch I also beleive would be a huge help to the opposition if there were to be an early election.

00davist12:22 pm 12 Aug 11

Northwest9 said :

00davist said :

Northwest9 said :

oh the outrage. how dare these truckies disrupt my drive to work in their vein and attempt to highlight how many of them will be put out of business with another cost lumped on an already stretched thin industry

HOW DARE THEY PROTEST SOMETHING I DON’T AGREE WITH

hahaha, either way, i dont really care, but i would absolutely love to see the outrage on this site if the government decided to tax bicycle tyres or free trade coffee.

00davist said :

They have a right to protest, What i cant understand is, how in the name of hell will stuffing up everyday canberrans run to work make a difference, FFS: I have no controll over this issue what so ever.

nothing, but protests generally disrupt someone, or the message goes unnoticed. i suspect they probably think having trucks on the road causing chaos is probably going to get more media attention that a cranky email to an editor of a newspaper

00davist said :

As for the C.Tax itself, God, I really don’t know what to think of it any more, BOTH sides of the debate are spouting that much nonsense, propaganda, fear mongering and Bulls**t, that i can see straight!

the whole carbon tax is a joke. it wont change anything about how people use energy, its a rob peter to pay paul setup, but its ok “only the rich will be out of pocket…”, it will just employ a heap of accountants, public servants and so on, sink a few small businesses, and create a few opportunistic businesses, but thats about it

With your first point, I guess you are right, I just wish there was a way they could effectively target the right people, and leave the rest of us out of it, however, when you look at the goings on in other countries (Try England) i guess we have it pretty good when it comes to people with grievances disturbing our ways, I would much rather they make me a little late to work, than burn my car!

With your second point, that’s your opinion on the issue, my problem is, for everyone who is so strongly against it, there is another equally for it.

I know this is exaggeration, but it feels like I have one mob telling me it will save the earth, cure cancer, and replace Ivan Milat with fluffy bunnies… Plus rainbows!

and the other mob telling me the moment it comes in, 95% of the population will suffer a simultaneous heart attack AND DIE, while the rest have to live on in ruins, dodging chunks off falling sky… Plus Rainbows, Black Rainbows!

When you have such amazing hype on each side, it’s hard to take anyone for real (Not a shot at you mate, just the overall hit of it, in my opinion!)

I guess I feel it wont be in either way, all it is cracked up to be, It wont save the earth, and it wont desiccate our economy, it will just do a little bit to make us a touch cleaner, and tighten a few wallets.

IE: Vaguely Effective, Mostly Harmless!

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