Highway clogged with trucking

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  1. Cybergal

    Cybergal Road Train Member

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    Highway clogged with trucking
    6/22/08
    Charleston Gazette, USA
     
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  3. Pur48Ted

    Pur48Ted Road Train Member

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    The last sentence in the article is telling:
    People could use the same indication nationwide to disprove the "recession" story. I have been telling my "Democrat" step-mother for years (when she talks about the "Bush Recession") that one good indicator to disprove this fairy-tail is the numbers of trucks on the highway on a daily basis.
     
  4. old-six-pack

    old-six-pack Heavy Load Member

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    maybe in your part of the country...................
    here there are PLENTY of loads if you want to move them for $1.15 a mile..........................:biggrin_2551:
     
  5. panhandlepat

    panhandlepat Road Train Member

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    i like Dave Ramsey's take on it.
    "those chicken little, he sky is falling reporters only sensationalize the bad.
    they never report when the stock market goes up!"
    and my favorite "RECESSION!!!! HAVE YOU TRIED TO GET IN THE WAL-MART PARKING LOT LATELy!!":biggrin_2559:
     
  6. animal control

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    CLARKSBURG - The national economy may be in recession but you would never know it by the traffic on Interstate 79?????????????????????????

    WHERE is this prosperous part of I 79 anyway? U.S. 19 carrys about as much as 79.

    This is one screwed up reporter.

    Whats the "GOOD" news on this great bush economy also?
    Mabey Barney Frank has the great news?


    Recession/Strike....2008
     
  7. JolliRoger

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    I believe you might find that a lot of "well to do" or "upwardly mobile" people have encountered their too high house payment, car payment, and gas fill ups.
    They are lowering their strata enough to "investigate" the Walmart "Low Prices /Always."
    In addition, in recent years of the "good times" a lot of our check drawing poor have "graduated" to shop a little more up scale (Target-Kohls-Etc.)
    With the same check not going as far as it did (gas for the large roomy auto and the rental payments on the 36 inch chrome wheels) they too have come back to their roots.
    Walmart's same store sales are up... Target,Sears, JC Penny are all down.
    Just an observation.... "It's not a promotion, it's a lateral transfer
     
  8. Pur48Ted

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    Answer...don't move them. Let the idiots who want to work for free haul all of those cheap loads as they want. They will soon enough go out of business, then the idiots who want "free freight-hauling" will figure out they will have to raise their rates.
     
  9. animal control

    animal control Medium Load Member

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    The craziest thing I ever saw on I79 W.V. was when I woke-up in the back of Jane Lew and when checking out my rig I saw and looked in a brown paper bag laying there in the lot?.
     
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