Everywhere in the Midwest has exhausted road boards I’ve been to. Can’t speak for the city side.Has freight picked up anywhere. Still on two days a week.
Me and drivers below me haven't worked in 8 days. Might be 11 or 16 before we work again. Sure seems like a weird year in freight.
Sounds like things have changed a lot. I would have loved some days off here and there.A Chicago driver just quit because of no work for days at a time.
Driver said they did not work for two weeks then got a lay run but was sent back to Chicago and laid again. Can't pay the bills with working like that.Sounds like things have changed a lot. I would have loved some days off here and there.
Just like the Cuban Missile Crisis.Freight is always the first to see a down turn in the economy. And the first to see it pick up. I suspect this Trade War is starting to effect freight & will continue to worsen as POTUS continues down this path with China. China is the # 1 trading partner of the US. If you make the goods more expensive to purchase, people will spend less on what I call ‘brick or brack’. Fewer purchases, less freight needed. Less demand, less work days @ the freight company. Besides, China owns more of our T Bills than we do. China owns a lot of America. China has purchased so many T Bills; they have to believe the US is of great value to them. But this trade war will have a much greater effect on China’s economy than the US economy. It is a question of who blinks first.Von.
More like the Star Wars prequels. LolJust like the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Just like the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Amazing story! How soon after President Kennedy’s speech to the nation did you begin running that stuff down there?Cuban Missle Crisis was a horse of a different color for me, Ryder and Carolina Freight hauled enough barbed wire, parachutes, mortar, artillery rounds and bombs to sink the state of Fla.
We ran no logs, no speed limit, stopped at no scales or check points.
Dispatcher would ask you to go sleep a couple hrs and come on back, I'll have you ready, this lasted about 3 weeks.
We ran like wild indians.
Amazing story! How soon after President Kennedy’s speech to the nation did you begin running that stuff down there?
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Poof! No more driver shortage. The only companies experiencing a shortage were the megas, because today's kids were too smart to buy their .
I can't recall a time line., we had a relay point at Hazlehurst Ga, when you were rested or called the dispatcher,
he would ask, if you wanted to make a Jax. turn or go back home.
I remember we were adding a new fleet of B61s.
I think Akers Motor Lines also hauled some of this ordinance.
Are you suggesting that the pigs living in the house means they are more equal than the rest of us?Well,......we all know Freight has cycles,...and that the high-end jobs in any industry have an easier time to fill jobs.
But , this is a problem trucking has always had, and that other industries have figured out, ....by spreading the work out to the whole workforce prior to layoffs.
I guess that’s harder to do in Freight,......or it takes too much thought and planning for management to care about.
Contract is settled,.....so any thought of helping the bottom of the seniority board,......or raising any pay,........is gone.
Back to “business as usual..”
Amazing how ther always seems to be a....steady....amount of “managerial “ work......They never get laid off....no matter how low the Freight volume goes....
....(..you know,...the volume they are supposed to be in charge of..).....
Are you suggesting that the pigs living in the house means they are more equal than the rest of us?