"General Public" and a strike. HELP!!!

i don't want to hijack this thread, but if you haven't read both books about the fairtax, you should. it works nothing like what you're explaining in your post.

 

The days are long gone when poor man could make a living and the sad reality(The truck driver) we will struggle on till the end of time It's going to get worser before it will get better!!!!! believe that!!!!

 

Sounds like you need to look elsewhere than hauling fish. If you can't make a profit doing what you do, then find another shipper, broker, etc. etc. or change your own business plan and put yourself into something with less competion.

 

who says im not making profit?? at 2.30 a mile right now is a #### good rate even for a reefer...sure if you run local freight at 3-4dollars a mile im happy for ya...but i run my trucks all 48 states and back home i load LTL freight that pay full truck load so it does come out nicely sometimes even at 6 dollars a mile if you know what you doing ofcourse. All i was saying is that theres shippers that wont pay what u want no matter how bad you want it, it depends on the areas you live in and how hot the product is..is it frozen fish rotting on the dock?? like if i run reefers you betcha i know all my seasons in FL,CA, OR,WA and IL AR MO and thats where the money is at for me...another thing is being profitable all year around so sometimes you have to adopt your o/o to different areas depending on the season comprande?

 

Very,very true my friend...

 

thsi country is in dire straits, and it is getting worse. with fuel thishigh ,and going higher, how long do you think the big trucking comapnies, will stay on the road, before they start laying off drivers, and scale back to the bare bones. not long, for sure. Yes, we have shortages, in this country, and our local sam's club has a sign up over the rice, limiting our buys,
how long before gas, is rationed? many people are out of work, loosing homes, and having a really tough time of it.
we are in extremely hard times.

 

no we're not, just ask iowabmw, bigdiesel and yoda, they're doing just fine.