Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

On the serious note, rates went down at least $300 - 600 on my favorite outbound lanes: last week $3900, today $3600. Backhauls about the same...$1800 - $2100 (not any more $2400 - 2600). So there is about $800 - $1000 of revenue less. Fuel about $4.5 per gal. Is it a beginning of a sliding trend, or temporary dip ?


The last two weeks were gloomy and sad...not on the account of the rates.

My heart goes to Ukrainians. I know a few of them here in Chicago area. How could they manage to perform with their businesses or work, which they still must do, while seeing horrors at home? Many of them have wives, kids, parents, brothers and sisters over there...
It is 21 century and and they are bombed and invaded like it were WW2 again from Russia who surely remembers their own suffering from atrocities inflicted by Germans.
Now, they are doing the same to a country that did nothing to deserve it. Civilians, kids, regular people dying every day. I am in admiration for their resolve to resist the invaders. They are proving that such things as patriotism and love for the country are still meaningful. They deserve to be the proudest nation in the World today.

 

Yup, spot rates have definitely gone down. Not dramatic but I noticed.

As far as Ukraine, NATO a.k.a. USA have repeatedly crossed the line in the sand eastward since the collapse of the Cold War. Just another instance where US has nothing to lose and everything to gain. And if it doesn't work out they'll just ship their stuff out of there and move on to the next conflict/interest. They're having the Ukrainan government do the dirty work for them and the people are suffering.

We have plenty of issues here at home yet insist on sticking our noses where it don't belong in the name of "freedom". And the sheep cheer on.

 

I did not make my remark about Ukraine to meander into U.S. foreign affairs and make it political. I did it out of compassion for ordinary people who were living normal life, trying to make both ends meet, raising kids, study business or medicine, hoping to afford to go to Odessa or somewhere in Turkey on vacation, when all of sudden they must run for their lives because there are rocket missiles launched at their homes.
There are very absorbing discussions in the political section, you can engage into polemics there.

 

Russians starved millions of Ukrainians to death in the Holodomor. Russians have been a nonstop killing machine all over Europe for decades...not Germans. Look into it, you might be surprised at what you find.

 

History is all too often controversial. It takes ages for it to clarify and form an unambiguous position especially on moral issues.
Ukrainians were vivid Nazi sympathizers and assisted Einsatzgrupen in the final solution, marched arm by arm with Wehrmacht fighting the Red Army.
I personally can't get over the fact they murdered 70 000 Poles in their ethnic cleansing in 1944 in what used to be eastern Poland. What is more disturbing, their university historians refuse to recognize it as genocide. Therefore, I don't know if I could ever be their friend on the statehood level until these things are recognized and historically settled but compassion and empathy goes above all political and historical disputes from 80 years ago. I can't hate a dude like Ruslan or Vadim, who also drive White Volvos, for what happened 3 or 4 generations back. I feel for them.

By the same token, today's Russians have little to do with Bolsheviks starving Ukrainians to death in 1930s. Were those top Bolsheviks who really called the shots real Russians... ?
Stalin was a Georgian, Lenin and Trotsky were Jews. They murdered and got rid of Russian political and intellectual elites, then they murdered each other for decades.
I refuse to hate Russians who are normal people e.g. who are my neighbors. Excluding them from international sports or boycotting everything that's Russian is an absurd. Is the "Nutcracker" or "Swan's Lake" going to be banned from American Philharmonic programs too?!

In any case, there is no way in today's civilized World to justify an attack of another sovereign country. Certainly, not on any ideological pretenses.

Ok. That was not political but historical thus I hope not hypocritical of me. In any case,. I'll leave it alone here and if needed continue this in other political section threads.

 

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Strike that post above.
I rung the bell prematurely.
I found $2500 from PA to WI, which is ok.

 

@TallJoe are those coyotes right in your back yard? If so, #### a lot more brave than the yotes around here.

 

Oh yeah, the one is having his errands through my backyard regularly. Lots of them in Northwest Chicago Suburbs, We have forest preserve nearby so I guess they must come from there....My wife saw it today again and took pictures, he always rests on our yard for a while and then carries on.
Their number increased quite a bit in the last 10 years or so...I am all right with that...less rabbits and squirrels, and what I like the most, much less yapping of those goddamn chihuahuas.

this is today's morning...about the time I was being offloaded from my Coyote's load.

Handsome animal....

 

No worries unless you have small children. I hear them most nights but are a ways off. Pretty wild you have them in chi town tho!