Waiting on New Trucks thread.

Short Fuse EOD · Dec 10, 2022

Ruthless said: ↑

German potato salad: sweet pickles go good against the savory of the bacon.

Mayonnaise n potato (salad) ought to be pieces of celery (?)

is there another kind I’m unfamiliar with?
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Fresh dill in the Deutsche Kartofel Salat!

Oxbow · Dec 10, 2022

RedForeman said: ↑

I can't stand boiled eggs, so avoid potato salads. I get that some prepare it without, but it's just too risky. I'll let others have at it, and enjoy more rolls or something.

If you want to see fighting at family dinner, the magic happens with a game of spoons right after a few rounds of after-dinner adult beverages. Looks like a tavern brawl in an old western movie. Smart hosts invest in heavy duty furniture.
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Ha! That was a family tradition when my folks were still alive! I believe that a few tables succumbed to the tradition.

Jubal Early Times · Dec 10, 2022

RedForeman said: ↑

I can't stand boiled eggs, so avoid potato salads. I get that some prepare it without, but it's just too risky. I'll let others have at it, and enjoy more rolls or something.

If you want to see fighting at family dinner, the magic happens with a game of spoons right after a few rounds of after-dinner adult beverages. Looks like a tavern brawl in an old western movie. Smart hosts invest in heavy duty furniture.
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I guess I will leave the egg salad at home then.

rollin coal · Dec 16, 2022

TallJoe said: ↑

@Constant Learner
I understand what you're coming from...and I somewhat feel that you received too much heat for your right to feel disappointed that even such a well outspoken member, perhaps seen as a mentor, as @rollin coal is, might not have an immediate solution to your own liking.
You'd expect from a mentor like that to throw $50 000- $100 000 cash down payment at a dealer and wait for a new truck arrival. See...It doesn't work like that...there could be myriad of reasons not to have a lot of cash on hand...what if he bought a harvester to work a lavender field...or something like that?

If I could borrow a truck from a friend and buy some time to regroup, I would do so too, even if I had 1 million on my business account.

More importantly, we are all internet entities and it is a big mistake, which I also make too often, to entrust all the impressions you get by reading posts on a site like this.

The only real world is your own.
But you should know better than asking someone about their wallets.
In the Western hemisphere such inquiries are not considered tactful. It may be somewhat different in Eastern and Central Europe, where talking about someone else's money is not such a "no no" in a daily life Savior Vivre.
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As a kid, I remember watching a Yugoslavian made movie, from 1970s, where in a small Serbian town, a very rich person...hmmm... he was like a "Don" insulted looking like a pauper man in a tavern about his destitute status.
The pauper was a proud man and made a bet with the Don that he had enough money, from his labor in Germany, to wallpaper the front of his house with 100 Deutch Mark banknotes.
The whole tavern laughed about such a revelation coming from someone looking like a bum, and the Don called his bluff. The whole tavern went to the bum's house where he showed them the money... clustered under the dying mother's bed. It was all there! They counted the money and estimated that there was enough to wallpaper the wall of the Don's house. Oh...I forgot to mention that The Don in return bet his house and ... wife. Lol.

But the son of the dying mother, while at her presence, became merciful and gave all the property back to the Don but on the condition that he would undress and walk home to his wife naked, which he did and told him to remember that all he got, from then on, was a gift from him.

Well, some time later, it turned out that the calculations were wrong and the Don was right, and should have won the bet....

So, what I am saying is, is that trying to look into someone else's wallet is a recepie for unpleasant experiences.
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Lol if I had a million in my bank account... Everybody on the internet with a trucking business is perfect right? Funny stories..

rollin coal · Dec 16, 2022

dirthaller said: ↑

For heaven sake….rollin already outlined what is going on. Anyone who has been paying attention for the last decade knows all about his plight. He made a promise to himself not to go into debt to bail his business out if he got into a jam. He used his reserves to finance personal interests/investments. He took a risk and drained reserves hoping to replenish before a catastrophe. Truck goes down, he kept his promise to himself not to go into debt to bail his business out. He’s doing just fine and we would all do well to take a page out of his book. He has a personal equity position better than mine…and I’ve been running my own numbers for a quarter of a century! If he chooses to get his business back on it’s feet the old fashioned way (which most of us choose debt instead), I, for one, will root for him….not only for his prosperity….but some of us will miss him if he leaves this industry and becomes a real estate tycoon!
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Lol... man I wish I had never sold those 2 nice properties that I did. Especially the first one that was the dream setup with plenty of space and a brand new shop. Made money both times but #### that was stupid.... Good land is hard to find and doesn't usually come cheap when it does. The place I have now is not near what I had but it'll do. Real estate ain't my thing anyway but hell anybody could have made money on that the past few years.

Kind of like trucking in Covid boom. Of course the fun starts when the **** gets real like it is now and we're all scratching our heads asking wtf is up with freight? lol

Long FLD · Dec 16, 2022

Looks like MHC has some new trucks available or coming available. Things are loosening up but the prices aren’t dropping.

Friend of mine picked up another new W9 at the local dealer that someone couldn’t take last week. Some minor tweaks to make it how he wanted it and it was in the $220 range out the door with 565 Cummins and 18 speed.

Cat sdp · Dec 16, 2022

If it gets bad enough prices will have to come down….. but that’s a ways off

ducnut · Dec 16, 2022

I’ve decided to call MHC, in the morning, for one of those new trucks. Then, I’m leasing it on with Amazon. My 2023 goal is to net something…just anything at all.

Vitkouski · Dec 17, 2022

Inventory | Lone Mountain Truck Leasing

ducnut · Dec 17, 2022

Vitkouski said: ↑

Inventory | Lone Mountain Truck Leasing
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