Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

But it looks like new trailers are almost impossible to come by these days, especially dry vans.

 

For sure on the tax credit subsidy. That can come back to bite you in the arse if you don't go to website and report a life change of income. Those tax credits can reach up to $2,500 a month. Go over the annual income threshold and they can hit you with a massive tax bill.

I read some time ago about a guy who ended getting hit with like a $20,000 tax bill because he ended reporting more money at the end of the year then what he projected his income to be at the beginning of the year.

 

Hope you all have an enjoyable & reflective Independence Day!

I'll share here Thomas Jefferson's last letter. He had to decline an invitation to attend a celebration of the 50th year anniversary (in DC) of the signing of the Declaration of Independence due to declining health. He wrote this letter with his left hand because he had fallen and broken his writing hand.

What strikes me in reading this letter is how our founding fathers stood head & shoulders (in every way) above the majority of the political buffoons that govern us today.

He died roughly 10 days later on July 04, 1826.


Monticello June 24. 26

Respected Sir


The kind invitation I receive from you on the part of the citizens of the city of Washington, to be present with them at their celebration of the 50th anniversary of American independance; as one of the surviving signers of an instrument pregnant with our own, and the fate of the world, is most flattering to myself, and heightened by the honorable accompaniment proposed for the comfort of such a journey. It adds sensibly to the sufferings of sickness, to be deprived by it of a personal participation in the rejoicings of that day. But acquiescence is a duty, under circumstances not placed among those we are permitted to controul. I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government. that form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.


I will ask permission here to express the pleasure with which I should have met my ancient neighbors of the City of Washington and of it’s vicinities, with whom I passed so many years of a pleasing social intercourse; an intercourse which so much relieved the anxieties of the public cares, and left impressions so deeply engraved in my affections, as never to be forgotten. with my regret that ill health forbids me the gratification of an acceptance, be pleased to receive for yourself, and those for whom you write, the assurance of my highest respect and friendly attachments.


Th. Jefferson

 

I'm sure most of you have seen this.

$70 Million Demanded As REvil Ransomware Attackers Claim 1 Million Systems Hit

Now REvil has moved the goalposts again: that same dark web blog post stated the group would be willing to negotiate the release of a universal decryptor key, one that would unlock every machine hit across the world over the weekend, for $70 million.

Those hit included schools, small public-sector bodies, travel and leisure organisations, as well as credit unions and accountants.

 

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I edited the link of our esteemed President commenting (at a local grocery store) on the recent ransomware attack. Only because the link I had, you have to scroll down to watch and it was so painful to watch, I decided I'd let it be LOL