STOP TAKING CHEAP FREIGHT YOU IDIOTS!!!!!

Go haul mail there running empty trailers around on there regular route today and all weekend.

 

Walmart, Sherwin Williams and some of these manufacturing ccompanies that have their own fleets can afford to haul cheap freight. It makes it hard on the little guys.

 

450k miles without a complete rebuild is lucky and is rare. I'm guessing the "I currently have 300k and it is grossing 40k+ nearly every work day" is a typo? True the sale price would be considered income but still you are putting money back in your pocket that you are not counting. 20k on a 450k pickup is what they are going for now.

I'm sorry but a 70k trailer for a hotshot is insane. A 40k rated trailer is NOT a "hotshot" trailer. That is a Semi truck trailer. How are you getting a 40k rating without airbrakes? Hard to believe a pickup truck hauling a 40k trailer lasting 450k miles without major repairs along the way.

Selling equipment early means you get most of your buy price back and buying new is a good way to keep your equipment new and upgraded. Waiting till it is rotted out and in constant need of repairs and maintenance is a good way to start losing money. Thats what the big companies are doing, selling the equipment the moment the warranty ends.

 

Mr right and left business owner came here to brag that he can't make enough money with his hot shot

 

There will be MANY bankruptcies this fall and across winter. It’s going to be UGLY.

i’m already noticing things changing within the company I work for. I’m not even an owner operator. The three main yards where we do drop and hooks, are all live load now. Why? Because the warehouses arent unloading our trailers and there’s hundreds of them sitting at these 3 yards. Why? Because people have stopped buying stuff. The freight just sits there for weeks and weeks and weeks. I went from 80% drop in hook to about 20%, to now where it’s a rare thing. I’m spending 2 to 6 hours waiting to get unloaded and loaded with every load. The storm is coming. It’s almost here.

 

This is true.

Just look at Netflix, Walmart, Target earnings reports recently and subsequent stock crash.

The consumer is cutting back on things and spending less.

Car and housing prices went to the moon, gas went to the moon.. among other general inflation.
People are running out of money and are struggling just to keep up with basic costs.

 

For anybody wondering how much stuff people are no longer buying look at Amazon stock price for the year. There's only one reason their stock price would drop and they're not the only ones with that issue.

 

Well part of that amazon price bring higher earlier was during covid more people bought stuff online.

What is more concerning is when you look at both Amazon and Walmart together, that just shows people spending less all together everywhere.