Trucking in 10 years

The thing is that freight will have to be moved in some way. One way or another or more probably several others, people will still be moving freight. I really can't see the demise of trucking in the forseeable future.

I'm really sorry to hear of your situation. I've known two folks with autistic children, one that is in really bad shape. Don't know if I would have been a strong enough person to handle that in one of my kids.

 

I used to to one-on-one behavioral therapy with austistic children. Part of the work involved socialization in the real world. Two of us would bring this boy out. We would pray for a tantrum-free day. We often wondered why the cops were never called as we restrained this boy or made him do things against his will. On a happy note, the years of intensive therapy were tough but he started kindergarden in a regular classroom and did well.

 

My Grandson has Autism he's 2 years old, but we didn't realize there was so many different types. He never speaks unless he wants to and then he'll blurt out entire sentence as clear as can be. Other than that he has basically made up his own launage and it took us all awhile to figure it out. He goes off in his own little world at times, he will socialize with other kids fairly decent and then he'll do somthing mean to them and 5 seconds later like he never did it. He's extremely intelligent, you can see the look on his face figuring things out, he gets a bizzare look. He cherishes me which makes me feel good.

 

You are really into this team thing. I think I've seen other posts by you referring to teams. Man, I hope you are wrong cause Team is the last thing I want to do!

 

People keep complaining how "bad" things supposedly are. When i first started 14 yrs ago. i had no power steering or A/C and peddled all day for $12hr which would equate to $450 to $600 per week depending on hours wasn't too bad for 93'/94' wages.

Now, i'm doing regional dedicated DC to hartford for $337 per round trip. Easy gravy run, no touch. The trucks, while they could still use improvments in terms of comfort are as well equipped as any car on the road.

The sleeper enviroment could use some improvement as well as the irregular scheduling, but those things were that way 10 yrs ago.

While i do believe in rail, and like the idea of rail, it is not the answer; We will not see any appreciable increase in freight being put on the rails.

To be continued............

 

I agree that this "just in time inventory" makes trucking more reliable than rail, but do notice on the tracks near my home a large number of empty truck (or full?) trailers be hauled by flat cars.