From the road...

You know how to repair forklifts?

 

Or scoop dawg crap.


Actually, we'll train.

DFW sucks, though.

 

For $100K/Year?

 

I love driving rigs,I just couldn't stomach the 16 hr days anymore. By the time you wake up, drive to and from the yard,shitty receivers that hated checking you in. I don't feel bad for the industry at all.I do miss the alone time like R1 racer said,and my Sirius xm shows daily,but I now have a life.

 

Sounds like exactly what made me choose scooping dog shit years ago VS getting a CDL when I really needed something to keep me outta the house 30 hours a week.

Mainly, it was the 30 hours a week part.

The miles between city limit signs sounded like heaven.

But the shitty receivers and the fuckheads in the unavoidable city traffic jams that think you can stop on a dime when they cut you off and take your front gap cushion would FKN SUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!

At some point I'd go to prison for crushing a Mazda.

 

Would it be the one that @Dave K drives?

 

One can only hope!

 

I used to hate that, especially coming into tolls where you're leaving a
big space in front of you and assholes keep jumping into that space to
get ahead of you.

 

Yeah.... I try and be considerate of those poor saps pulling 53 feet of unbending metal. but if I slow down to let 'em in, some twatwaffle in a Yeep invariably jumps into the lane I've left open....making me AND the cabdweller mad as shit.

 

I’m not feeling either one of those occupations or locales. Haha.

I was at the KC plant, tonight. One of the guys said to brace for a long one. Ugh!

 

If those guys get what I've read in the paper, expect regular F150s to crack 100k sticker price within 2 years

I'm lucky that I charge my truck to my customers 3 + days a week

How these guys afford these superduties that aren't contractors now is mind boggling to me

 

To add, it’s official, my buddy is out of trucking. Put his truck and trailer for sale, went for a month long visit to Greece and when he comes back he’s out of trucking. Gonna go do siding or windows.

 

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freight-recession-unlike-any-other-in-history

 

God I hope So!!!

 

One thing that article didn’t directly address is the UAW strike. That has generated a LOT of additional capacity for the open market. For regional companies like my employer, the closure of just a few plants has resulted in layoffs of the majority of our drivers. There are 6 auto part drivers out of my remote location and I’m the only one left working, because of the plant I service. The others are getting an occasional broker load assigned to them that isn’t worth putting the key in the ignition.

 

Damn you're old.



ohwait

 

"
The loads may not pay much, but brokers are able to supply carriers with loads that pay just enough to cover the monthly truck bill.

Carriers may be losing money, but that small amount of cash flow will keep them in the game longer than would be otherwise expected"

man...that's not a good look

damn.. lucky for you, but that has to be stress inducing, and maybe even some survivor's guilt

 

Better look than thousands of trucks getting repo’d.

 

Brokers suck. I'm on the receiving end of freight and when I look at the freight cost and compare it to what an owner operator ends up with after the broker/brokers get their cut it's shocking.