Trucking jobs evaporate as shortage worsens

Sorry I missed this, very accurate statement of what's going on.

T.E.A.M.S is LTL, so they will be busy, but they're prob up to 6-10 stop loads now. This also applied to J&R hall, lots of stops, very pushy, slip seated trucks.

Key West is prob the best trucking job in Canada now, but you have to go into Mexico, and they're never hiring.

Loblaws says, they will be covering 50% of the cross-border reefer loads by 2025. Now that them and Cargill are basically the same company, I can see it. Remember they import/control the vast majority of produce/nuts in Canada, so that was 90% of reefer re-loads out of the US. The majority of loads I did into the US were either Cargill or Lamb Weston. So with those off the table now to most carriers, it's going to get ugly.

Everyone is cramming themselves into JBS, to try and get into the US, and MAYBE get a brokered produce load, going to some hellhole like Krown Produce.

TransX, Bison, Day and Ross are just revolving doors, their business model now, is get 6 months out of a driver, and if they go broke and quit, no worries.

IHaul is basically done, I don't know anyone still there, the last guy to quit, was doing 1000mi/wk company in one of their lightweight trucks.

I'm starting to look into dump trucks, seems the construction boom for multi-family housing in Calgary is going to come fast and hard in the spring.

 

What extra tax? On road fuel is on road fuel. It has the same state and federal taxes.

 

Big trucks pay a higher tax rate that’s why the local station across the street is less money
Local cars don’t pay that higher fee

Or at least that’s the way I understand it and have always been told

I’ve also been told you can get into an issue if caught fueling a semi at a local pump ???

But I could be wrong. Just what I’ve been told

 

Been cow hauling for 35+ years.. I've seen it slower than it is now.. but theres alot of behind the cutrain variables
The biggest one having a affect is the drought.. plus theres different types of bovine movement at different times of the year. That need to watch the movement & numbers base to see how the economy is affecting the demand for meant
Again the big factor in this business is this long term drought we are in right now ..theres been a fair amount of Cattle that have been & are being liquidated because of that reason
The scary part is there is alot data stating that this drought will continue for the next 2 years..
But my short answer is I've been busy.. ..

 

You were told wrong. Road tax is the same. Truckstops charge more because they have a captive audience. You can fuel at Walmart if you can get in there.

 

I never did any research on it but tried digging into it a little today after your post and wasn’t finding anything that said it was different

Thanks!

 

No worries! I’m glad to help.

 

From.my perspective what I have seen and the cows I relocated this summer and what I have seen at home .. very few ranchs & farms could withstand 6 more months let alone 2 years