Freight brokers; from the horses mouth

Discussion in 'Freight Broker Forum' started by pete1, May 20, 2020.

  1. FoolsErrand

    FoolsErrand Road Train Member

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    I bet govt does something to trucking/freight over this. Not sure what exactly, but it wont fix much and will spread a precedent into other areas over the next decade. Just a hunch.


    I live in a beef region. Cattle prices are way down while the meat racks at walmart/kroger at al are nearly bare. Mom and pop slaughterhouses are booked out 2 years. Similar where youre at?


    Another anomoly is walmart is just staying bare on the oddest things. I dont believe its people buying faster than can be resupplied either.
     
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  3. bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    If its not that, then what could it be?
     
  4. FoolsErrand

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    Covid hysteria seems to be a big business is all i will say. If kroger has a full rack of batteries so should walmart.
     
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    I’m generally not conspiracy minded, but I can’t wrap my head around the meat deal. I don’t pay attention to pork prices, but I know the cattle guys are taking a huge loss selling their fats while the packers are making over $1000 profit per head. Combine that with the fact that our government started to allow imports from South America again and every time the cattle groups push for Country of Origin labels on packaged meat the USDA shoots them down. Almost like the government wants everyone to be broke and reliant on the government to be able to exist.

    I checked into an FSA loan a few years ago to buy some land and cattle. At that time they wanted my truck and everything else listed as collateral on the loan. When you read the fine print of those FSA loans they require 150% collateral. So the government has their name on everything and can dictate how you run your operation.
     
  6. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Those same laws prevent independent O/Os from organizing for the purpose of setting rates. The gov'ment would consider them to be a cartel. And their setting rates would be considered to be price fixing.
     
  7. FoolsErrand

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    Ya ever heard of the international monetary fund or the world bank? America is subservient to both.

    A soviet agent named harry dexter white crafted both, while he was assistant US secretary to the US treasury under morganthau if i remember correctly. He was also our head honcho at the bretton woods conference. The american govt began wiretapping itself in 1943 and the declassification of the venona recordings proved that "we" knew what he was up to.

    And we havent ever done a #### thing about any of it. We stayed with bretton woods and world bank and IMF anyway. The number one choice of jobs for a socialist is in the US govt.

    I was the land access guy for a big 4wd association in massachusetts. Ya know who was closing off motorized access to our state forests? The ecowarriors who got the job of managing them.

    'Conspiracy theorist' is a misnomer designed to make us all seem crazy. When you can buy books written on exactly what to do,its a conspiracy fact. Yes, there are people who conspire to enter our country, enter its govt and change it from within. That is a fact.
     
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  8. OldW900AOwner

    OldW900AOwner Light Load Member

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    If there was a double like button to click on here, I'd hit it for this one. Good statement. I've been there too. I hate a liar and a thief.
     
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