Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

I did. Not in detail, but i knew bad times were ahead for those who depended on america to remain as stable as it has been. Basically debtors. But i have to credit my grandfather who gave me a lot of warning before he died, of what was to come. I thought he was nuts until i began seeing things unfold how he warned. 10 years ago i started trying to tell people and all it did was make people think i was crazy. But i escaped the conventional world and have an incredibly good life that i probably dont deserve. It took a decade to prepare. Hardest part is seeing family and friends getting hammered. My dad lost 200k. My brother finally gets his dream place on debt and now its all up in the air. Grandparents losing their home. Its terrible.

 

It is not easy on a marriage. I think my wife would have left if she had an option back then.. We lost 2 houses and ended up starting over in a camper. But as always the Lord had it all worked out and we clung to each other for lack of anything else.

Get started sooner than later. The prices in any good place are going to skyrocket from the exodus of people cashing out 401K's to leave socialist cities.

 

Everything starts with a conversation. One of those real ones where you are listening to each other’s feelings and exchanging how you feel.

 

Not a rumor here, it's happening.

Monterey County growers face 'unprecedented losses' amid pandemic

Farmers let crops rot while food bank demand soars

 

Conversations were already there.....
like this:
LOL

 

Thanks for linking those @SteveScott

Those articles are better than the big hype ones i read about florida which portrayed it as all the crops are rotting. Agriculture has failed.

Youve got numbers on those that atleast show, some are only down a little.

5%-90% loss is probably the same range as truckers are seeing today.. Some down a little. Some wiped out. 13acres of lettuce plowed under is probably not the worlds largest crop loss but journalism has to find covid stories. How many thousands of acres get lost to drought?

 

I hear great things about Montana and living up there, but you have to love cold and snow which I don't. One of my best friends in the world was a fireman in my town for 30 years, retired as captain 10 years ago and sold his house and retired in Montana with his wife. They love it up there.

But sometimes things don't always work out well. When I owned an insurance company, I had a woman office manager who worked for me almost 20 years. She retired in 2005 and her and her husband sold their now very valuable home in northern California and moved to southern Oregon when they bought a huge home on acreage and a river. They then both were diagnosed and died of brain cancer within a year. The house they sold in California had high tension power lines running through it. I never really gave things like that much thought, but another friend of mine grew up in that same neighborhood, and HIS parents both died of brain cancer as well, and my friend had testicular cancer. I never wanted to live near those things anyway because they're an eye sore, but now I'm glad I never did.

 

Crops lost to drought? None. What this state calls a drought is nothing more than a money making scheme. They refuse to build more water storage for our wet years, and cry drought every other year so they can tax users for their water consumption. Taxes are a very lucrative business in California. They pay for all of those state employees and their high salaries, platinum medical plans, and retirement packages that pay them at least twice their normal annual salary.

 

I guess im not surprised.

 

On the hairdresser thing, I don't get that one. If there's one thing independent trucking will teach you it's to get creative.

If I cut hair about all I would need with any 'pandemic' is a covered porch. It's Spring time. Have people come to your place, cut hair on the porch. It's nice out, most places. Make sensible decisions on space, cleanup, etc. Survival of the fittest.

With Facebook (which I'm not on but everyone else is) you can find your clients.

6 months pass, pandemic over, no need to go back to cutting hair at a storefront/business location. Save that money and work from home on your schedule.