Everyone really needs to read Article 22 very carefully and I will say they should fear this Article especially when you encorporate the changes in Article 48 (5 leg trips). Here at Allied for those who are not aware of some of the details of the 15% pay concession that was made in May 2007, CT Services and Axis which are both Allied owned brokerage companies who keep many non union companies rolling, Allied was to either close and sell these companies or roll that freight into union Allied trucks and this was to be monitored.

Well as you all know this pay concession barely passed but it did and we have all had to live with the night mares of it, now when this passed and the first load of CT services was hauled, there it was “NEW BUSSINESS RATE”. We were all told its just the way it is, now this work was always hauled on Union trucks but now ater Zuckerman made this deal he told us it was new bussiness. When you read the first paragraph of Art 22 that we agreed to 5 years ago it says “For the life of this agreement”, but now we find out the life has been extended to another contract. This new Art 22 now will enable for the longest leg of a 5 leg trip to be paid at running mile then you can be sent in to a foreign terminal and pull up to two 30+ mile trips and from there could be another new bussiness trip (running mile) heading in another direction. The abuses that can be done will be devestating to our income, and our home time. For years our companies have had these brokerage companies that keep the non union carriers loaded while our brothers are on lay off. THESE PRACTICES CANNOT BE TOLERATED and the answer is not either condoning it or cutting our throats. We need to send the message that not one non union truck will load one of these loads if there is as little as 1 union driver laid off. This is our work and should be put on our trucks PERIOD.

Jul 14 10:46 AM US/Eastern By BEN FELLER Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - In another push to deal with soaring gas prices, President Bush on Monday will lift an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress acts as well.

The president plans to officially lift the ban and then explain his actions in a Rose Garden statement, White House press secretary Dana Perino said.

There are two prohibitions on offshore drilling, one imposed by Congress and another by executive order signed by former President Bush in 1990. The current president, trying to ease market tensions and boost supply, called last month for Congress to lift its prohibition before he did so himself.

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