Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

A thread this long, like a river, meanders from rates through quasi-politics to social issues and music and entertainment and last but not least various culinary aspects. If it were not for that, it would have dried out long time ago. I mean the title: Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0 - has little to do with what is discussed here.
Look at it as an old fashion gentlemen Cigar Club (BTW: No Ladies here?). No real quarrels but subtle pinches or intellectual pinches but within acceptable norms so far. A little salt and pepper and...spicy paprika so it tastes better. We also have a pretty dedicated moderator who watches how we behave...

 

How about we start playing correspondence chess here too?

 

I like it when @TallJoe waxes philosophical.

 

I hear that. I hadn’t rode a dirt bike or motorcycle in probably 4 or 5 years. I used to hit huge jumps, do long wheelies, do twisty on road riding, raced dangerous cars on track for a long time, etc. Add in growing up on a farm and also trucking, it’s been a wild ride but had to tone it way down.

No wonder last year I had to get both my hips replaced within 2 months of each other at 34 years old. It’s incredible how well they work, but I’m always nervous I’ll do something to mess them up. Keeps me in check big time.

I still ride little mini bikes though now that my son started riding back in the spring. He’s got a little electric stacyc bike. I ride an old z50 I’ve had for years and years.

 

I stopped riding back in 82. I rode stupid fast on my CB 750 Honda, but what scared me even more than that was other drivers who just couldn't see me on busy California highways. When a lady in a car pushed me off the road into the dirt while I was cruising at the speed limit, and I wound up with 2 broken legs, that was my last day riding. My knees are paying for that accident to this day.

 

That's why I have to postpone my dream of touring the country and Canada on Honda Goldwing until I retire....but am I not going to be too old at 65 - 70? (asking rhetorically)

 

Are you lazy ######## still whining here about rates? Look what the real drivers have, from broker point of view of course. $190 x 70 hours = OMG!!!! $13300

 

When I was a teenager I worked at a Honda dealer. There was a retired gentleman that bought a new wing every year. He did exactly that, toured the US and Canada. Even went to Alaska.

Im almost certain that he turned a 1 year old Goldwing in with nearly 100k miles. It was almost unbelievable.

 

Now he should tell the story where in the spring he bent every carrier over a barrel and stuck it to them with rates far under break even. Talk about greed.

Or that it pays very little getting back to LA from NY. Oh well. Stupid people are gonna stupid.