Rates have been dropping.

By the way, Thank You for your service. And as a proud Virginian i would like to take a minute to apologize for our beautiful Hampton Roads area. The military is what makes it great. The rest looking to suck the blood out of every sailor who steps ashore....ugh not so much.

 

I was born and raised in Norfolk, well for the most part.

 

The whole conversation a couple days ago just made me laugh. When you said where your from your point was made loud and clear. Well to me and a few others anyway. I know the area well. And your right. Race has nothing to do with it. Lol. Not that it matters. Just couldn't help it.

 

If you know the area then you know I speak the truth!

We were kids so to us it wasn't anything but the hood!

 

It sounds as if you are familiar with the area, do you remember Andy's pizza on Military hwy?

 

Last year I hung out at the end of the runway of the airfield near Virginia beach watching the fighters taking off and landing... Very cool..

Now back to your regular scheduled programing......

 

The airshows are legendary. Langley has the Thunderbirds and Oceania the Blue Angels. Was always taken to the shows as a kid and still take my son. Almost seems like old Americana. But it is still so cool, and hair raising chill bump kind of stuff.

 

Not off the top of my head, most of my time was spent at pizza joints that served beer, but not pizza lol. The Banque, Golden Rule, Music Box Cafe....

 

There's a saying that man doesn't read the writing on the wall until his back is up against it.

They want the rates lower and lower, well so did the shipping companies hauling their containers. Well they got their low rates. But look what happened with Hanjin. Interesting enough I was reading an article in the JOC and the last line almost made me laughg:

"After they secured some of the lowest trans-Pacific rates in years last spring, shippers have a growing sense of just how unsustainable the rates are, and know that no discount, even those below liners’ operating costs, is worth stranded cargo."

This is what it took for them to realize it. I know this is a SNI thread but the rates apply to all of us. For us we do the full service Penske deal but those that want to squeeze the last nickel out of a truck, well when a turbo goes and the owner or company (and most trucking companies are relatively small) doesn't have the money to fix it, well over a few hundred dollars they will possibly lose the load (and maybe and unhappy customer) if the company doesn't get it going right away. But we could scream this as loud as we want, until what happens like what happened with Hanjin we just have to suffer along.