Could You Stay in Business or No?

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Midwest Trucker, Mar 12, 2020.

Would you go broke?

  1. Yes

    15 vote(s)
    19.0%
  2. No

    55 vote(s)
    69.6%
  3. Maybe

    9 vote(s)
    11.4%
  1. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    I don’t recal mass hysteria during this?

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  3. Rideandrepair

    Rideandrepair Road Train Member

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    I had it, along with walking pneumonia. Only time I ever got worried, flat out couldn’t breath. Finally took steroids, and got over it. It’s a grim reminder, don’t want anything like that again!
     
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  5. sealevel

    sealevel Road Train Member

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    It took a hammering. Apparently banks have to sell gold to remain liquid with cash that everyone keeps cashing out on. Probably have that a little f'd up but it's something to that effect.
     
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  6. Midwest Trucker

    Midwest Trucker Road Train Member

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    I got to thinking if people make a run on banks like they are toilet paper it would take about 2 seconds to run out. These banks keep extremely little cash in their vaults. I had a guy buy a truck from me and he tried to withdraw 25k cash from a chase bank and they told him sorry we don’t have enough. That’s kinda scary in itself.
     
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  7. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    But the difference is who was president and how the media wanted to portray it. There was no TP shortage, nobody was panicking and canceling stuff. Everyone lived their life.
     
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  8. Rideandrepair

    Rideandrepair Road Train Member

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    $25k? Wow! That’s messed up.
     
  9. Rideandrepair

    Rideandrepair Road Train Member

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    Wonder if they’ll relax the HOS rules? If I get pulled over or brought into the scale house. I’m going on coughing and sneezing. Lol.
     
  10. Tropsnart

    Tropsnart Road Train Member

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    If you do that in NY, our wonderful governor will probably require you to be quarantined.
     
  11. Freddy57

    Freddy57 Road Train Member

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    I could probably stay in business if I wanted to...the problem is, unless the rates go up sharply, I'm not so sure that I would want to.
    I get my water from a 450 foot well outside my house, no problem with water.
    If I can't get TP, no problem, I have lots of corn cobs left from last years harvest...LOL
     
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  12. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    Myself and my band of merrymen are ready at the drop of a hat to support the organized shutdown to protest rates, e log, dot, shippers and receivers, megas, O/O, CDL schools, Coronavirus, and whatever the gripe of the week is.

    :brave:
     
  13. Freddy57

    Freddy57 Road Train Member

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    Organized shutdown??? ha ha ha ha ha ha I almost fell off my couch laughing.
     
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