Rates are crashing and fuel to the moon!

We have been getting hit left and right here in Detroit, I don't even remember the last time I have moved automotive freight.

 

It could come down to something as little as the ink they use to print the barcodes on the packaging is imported. I still agree though, people are dumb. Even if for some unlikely reason the TP ran out it wouldn't be a big deal to me. I could use paper towels, or just shower. I guess being truckers we are all used to roughing it and such things are the last that thing on our minds, at least for me. There isnt really anything that could run out that I could give a #### about, at least if it is short term and not gone for the rest of my life.

 

Follow the drone in front of you.

 

Parts shortage can affect you

 

Well, that did not last long
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/business/port-strike-union-deal/index.html

 

Everybody was complaining they were looking for a 77% raise. Then they were offered 50% that they rejected and ended up settling for a 62% raise. Good for them. There's a lesson in that for truckers who negotiate. Aim high!

 

no not good for them, fees are going to go up, rates for container freight may end up going down or costs to the consumer will go up more than 15% to cover it. The ports need to be automated, we are moving freight like this was the 1920s.

 

At my local Costco too.

 

Truckers who negotiate? Where can we find them at?