Rates in the toilet?

Look out below! Prices are starting to drop on equipment. I usually watch these auctions and attend them from time to time looking for a good deal. Looks like prices are considerably lower on the stuff marked sold than they were middle of last year. Kind of wish I snagged one of those dry vans for a storage shed.

http://www.hessauctioneers.net/!X0/for-sale/!13000

 

Holy smokes! $4000 could get you a truck & trailer

 

Used to work for a tire man about 30 years ago customers would cry about 8 dollars to fix a flat.
Guy would take out a sheet of paper and write
Price
Quality
Service
and say Pick two !

 

A worn out reefer works better. They don't sweat as much. Or Atleast that's my experience with the two vans, and two reefers I got sitting on the farm. obviously you buy what's cheapest, but if the price ifs the same I'd get a reefer.

 

Jesus at those prices I'm tempted to buy a California compliant truck. I wonder if they'd ever figure out I yanked the pos emissions off. Tempting.

 

Ya gotta wonder how long the desk jockeys can get away with this. For the past 18 mos., i have been hauling newspapers with a cargo van and a 24' straight truck. I have one of the largest hauls out of the place. Several other contractors had downsized to mini-vans because their hauls were dwindling in volume. In early autumn, the paper started printing thick, high quality magazines which are loaded into carts to 1500# per cart. The Warren Buffett-owned company sent us contractors a letter 1 month prior to printing these magazines, telling us to make sure our vehicles are heavy enough to handle the extra weight. No extra pay, even my straight truck is overweight at 2/3 of the whole load, and those contractors with mini-vans had to buy 1-ton vans. Their contracts are bid for a 22 mpg vehicle, but will now be getting 13-15mpg...NO EXTRA PAY, and 2 of those guys that i know, tried to upbid their hauls, but were told by management that they would lose their haul to the known cutthroat on the scene. Those 2 guys are too old to go anywhere else, so guess what ?.......rice and beans, baby !

 

This week has been lots better than usual loaded Thursday for first load about 10Am
finished third load and back home at 4PM Friday total 443 miles total revenue 1450
Hadn't had a week like that in 6 months will be great when I get paid.

 

Fair enough

 

if you're lucky, know somebody, or spend half of your time doing research. The sentence continues long after the 'you get what you pay for' cliche.

Bound to go up with inflation, and with no other input, bound to go up with nothing else. Look at that standard of living and compare it to sustenance farming, sure it's gone up. But up from what? Workers here and workers in MX have different baselines for comparison.