Prepare Yourself For It. July Is The Time.

[Hammer166]

Aftershock, I'd thank ya if I could!

But you're dead on, twuck nut has devolved to channel 19. Even have the Swede playing the role of the agitating, insulting base station!

Nice to hang out where the bad boys get their hand slapped!

[Highballin]

Maybe we should do like the Airlines are doing.No free luggage lunchs,drinks that part sucksSoon they will be charging for each piece of clothing your wearing now that could be a good thing for some not so good for others.All routes that are not making a profit are stopped.Kind of like hauling cheap broker frieght huh?
O and the Pilots are helping too their going on strike for more money.OOPS.

[Hilltop]

Originally Posted by Highballin

Well Hilltop I think the frieght should go up on lumber products a lot since the house building is going down hill. Maybe thats why some products are not moving to well The frieght is to cheap Raise the frieght.
But realy if the products are not selling companys will store it.

But with the job lose's of a lot of Americans and the dollar being down.. People can't afford stuff now.. How would that be all possible.. Just my penny's worth..


Talk to people on the street and see how they feel...Pretty disturbing and sad when you ask the one's that live here....


Everything hindges on Oil and fuel... Price of that out of sight just brings other things through the roof as well..

[Hilltop]

Unless everyone is being productive and being able to par for goods the economy is not going to be all that good.

[AfterShock]

Originally Posted by Hammer166

Aftershock, I'd thank ya if I could!

You just did!

[Highballin]

Originally Posted by Hilltop

But with the job lose's of a lot of Americans and the dollar being down.. People can't afford stuff now.. How would that be all possible.. Just my penny's worth..


Talk to people on the street and see how they feel...Pretty disturbing and sad when you ask the one's that live here....


Everything hindges on Oil and fuel... Price of that out of sight just brings other things through the roof as well..

It wouldnt.Thats realy what I was trying to make a point on.If the products are not selling there is no reason to ship it.

[Hilltop]

Originally Posted by Highballin

It wouldnt.Thats realy what I was trying to make a point on.If the products are not selling there is no reason to ship it.

Thats right..And unfortunately Oil is hinging on how we do things..

[Hammer166]

Yeah, but when I tried to use the button, the evil bot said, "I don't think so, noob! Mmwwwaahahahaha!"

[18wheeldumptrucker]

Originally Posted by Hammer166

#1 we must become a rational electorate again. The current climate of emotional decision making will be this country's downfall. (though do remember, truckers would be one of the most powerful groups IF they would vote together)

#2. the environmental wack jobs need to be told to go pound sand. If their ideas ruled in the 1800's there would have been no Industrial Revolution and we would still be a nation of subsistence farmers.

#3. The trucking 'house' needs cleaned! How? Wish I knew! I abhor the idea of re-regulation, but not sure how else to control who becomes a carrier. The brokers are far from blameless, but if some idiot's willing to haul it that cheap, why pay more? At some point , drivers are gonna have to realize it takes more than a truck to be an o/o.
And the 'backrow' comment had nothing to do with the desire to help others and everything to do with the ' let's take big oil's money' and 'let's not feed them Arabs' mentality.

Nice try at turning my words, though.

First off, I didn't mean to turn your words around, I just didn't understand where you were going with that. I appologize. Now as for you statements above. Wow. I don't think I could agree with you more if I tried!

#1) The emotional, knee jerk reactions that have become the norm in this government have got to stop. Every time some bleeding heart shows up crying about how they've been wronged, a speacial interest group jumps on board and suddenly we have a constitutional amendment in their favor.

#2)The "enviromentalists" are a joke. We as humans are carnavores by nature. We consume what is around us. I get a huge kick out of the enviromentalists that make a sign out of cardboard, telling me to stop cutting down trees! seems a little twisted if you ask me. If there is oil under an elk in Alaska, kindly ask that elk to move so we can drill there. The elk will adapt. We have all had to adapt to something.

As for number 3, you got me there. There needs to be some organization there. How, I don't quite know, but hopefully it will happen soon.

[Hammer166]

Yeah, my bad too, 18WDT. I have to remember that with that big tub of Cool Whup hanging around, everyone plays a little nicer round here compared to that other place.

And I know the way things are going construction-wise, a lot of guys in your line of work are in for some rough times. In the few big cities I go to, residential construction has all but stopped. Don't have to tell you how much dirt they haul around in those new subdivisions! Mainly company trucks, but those outfits will be trying to grab all the work they can get. Hope ODOT keeps ya busy for a while.