Trucking Economist Predicts “A Lot of Trucking Failures” Coming Soon Due to Pandemic What do yall th

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  1. TokyoJoe

    TokyoJoe Road Train Member

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    So you no longer want to drive like a boss?
     
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  3. nredfor88

    nredfor88 Road Train Member

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    Something doesn’t sound right. I’m getting loads no more than an hour after the previous consignee. We do a lot in that area as well. You should follow up with your company and see what’s up.
     
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  4. sealevel

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    Yep. They don't want the plumbing thing to get out while they have the masses quarantined in massive apartment complexes in urban cities. Meanwhile just go to the grocery store because it's safe there. Now a zoo tiger has it. Heard on the radio I should think twice before I let my dog lick me. F THIS! Spend a couple weeks stocking the hospitals up. Then it's time to get to work. This, or any country for that matter has ever beat anything by sitting at home and waiting for permission to go outside. I'm not sure it matters what the death rate or number of infections are as disgusting as that sounds. This country has to go back to work in short order. It's what keeps free people free.
    Since 9/11 it has been one crisis after another. Some idiot terrorist in France tries to blow up a plane with a shoe bomb and we have to scuffle around airports in socks. Create a Department of Homeland Security and spend billions while losing rights. Where were they in January when I even knew China had a problem. We got lucky with SARS. Maybe the civilized world should spend a few bucks keeping this from happening again instead of taxing the bejesus out of us then telling us to stay inside.
    Infuriating. I think the tiger infection sent me over the edge. Lol. Sorry for the long post.
     
  5. trucker2121

    trucker2121 Light Load Member

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    boss? I feel like im paying to be one. i haven't seen a deposit in two weeks. this Friday makes it three. im paying on an over priced truck. this boss has a huge shovel to dig out of. I think im bout to have nervous break down thinkin about it
     
  6. FoolsErrand

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    Fixed it for you. 62mph right down the middle baby. Yall can go around.
     
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  7. danny23tx

    danny23tx Road Train Member

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    Be best to walk away , ain't no shame . Your right you are paying to say your a boss . You'll get back up just consider it a life lesson.
     
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  8. TokyoJoe

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    They never said that you were a boss

    They just said that you could drive like one.

    It's like me going down to the local Enterprise car rental, and paying 100 a day to drive around in a big Escalade, except not quite as comfortable.
     
  9. MericanMade

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    Germ theory wasn’t discovered until the 1860s, so I doubt a hundred years earlier they would have done such a thing. Blood-letting, maybe. But I stand to be corrected if I’m wrong.
     
  10. trucker2121

    trucker2121 Light Load Member

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    the position im in I wouldn't mind trading places for a week. and start over
     
  11. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    You only get in the media if your prediction is more dramatic and frightening than the prediction they published yesterday. Someone somewhere has predicted exactly what will happen you just nerd to sort through the 7 billion guesses.

    We won't know until after it arrives wjo had the correct wild guess. Then that guy will be famous and he'll be wrong about what happens after that.
     
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