To get uniform support was always going to be very difficult because the big corporates divide and conquer. The terrible fear tool is used by unscrupulous Prime contractors to control and keep the industry in poverty.
The government will be determined to keep its ruthless laws because if they give into the transport industry they would be scared to death that other industries would demand relief from regulations.

I was very happy this morning that the world trade (WTO) talks collapsed overnight in Geneva. The might of the corporations has greatly lessened with this collapse.
According to the ABC news , Simon Crean ( who has been useless for small farmers with his atupid level playing field etc.) said he is very dissappointed that countries could not reach a compromise with the US. China , India and smaller countries ganged up against big bully US to stop the low price dumping of product into their countries by the US.
Simon Crean has been working with US corporations against we small farmers in Australia.
Apparently the talks have never been more bitter - I don't blame them I'm bitter too about stupid ruthless criminal people in our governments and farming associations who want to sell us out to big corporations all the time.
Long may that sort of globalism keep dying!

Von Curtis, you sure have hit the nail fair on the head.
What we need is to take the very oppisite tack to the divide and rule tactics being used against the Austalian people generally and against todays generation of truckies right now. What we need is that drivers, whether they are subbies and/or owner drivers, company employed drivers, and no matter what the association or union or other group they belong to, all must get together and take a stand AS ONE. Unity is the key to defeating the divide and rule tactics being used against you. More public support is needed, support from other workers in other industries is needed. Work hard of building this unity and your power will be boosted tremendously.

Keep at it, keep targeting the regulators for their idiocy and shit-brained policies re log books and so on, and also the oil companies for their rip-offs on fuel pricing.

I am supporting the electrical workers fight going on at the moment with a few dollars out of my age pension each fortnight, and believe we all ought to support each other in industrial fights (like theirs and yours) across all industries regardless.

As to talk of industrial terrorists.... What bullshit!! The bloody terrorists are the regulators and the bosses who put unreasonable demands on people just trying to earn a decent living as in your trucking case, and workers who feel they have a right to come home after work each night and not have to put up with safety measures being cut back as is part of the electrical workers argument.
Let the bloody government wallahs, the oil company executives and the electricity bosses all get off their shiny arses and get out there and do a real days work with the workers. They'd soon change their smart-arsed tune then, they'd scream at having to live as most of you truckies do; they'd shit themselves.

Keep going. There is no guarantee you will win, but I believe it is very winnable. On the other hand, From years of experience I guarantee this; IF YOU DON'T FIGHT ..... YOU LOSE !