Recession?

Imo, it is. Only a matter of time stateside, and what happens there affects us here.

 

Smart o/o and companies will do fine. Those that are not in a good place will fail.

 

Late cheque’s is a bad sign. Really bad.

 

No, its everyone in the Tandem Van/Reefer market, even the biggest, Bison/TransX are feeling it. Challenger is almost totally out of work (outside of the Ontario Terminal) from what I hear. Dry Van has been hit the worst, Reefer is steady but slow. Bison and TransX are shifting 75%+ of their power to Reefer fleets. iHaul gobbled up H&R to get a bigger presence in west coast reefer, with Triple 8 right behind them. Lightspeed, People Express and Cogent are almost bankrupt.

CN/TransX and Bison are both throwing huge money at Intermodal Reefer, with Bison buying Celadon's temp controlled Intermodal Assets, and CN/TransX buying H&R's.

LTL is the only thing keeping busy, which i'm sticking too. I wanted to go step deck, but not a good time IMHO.

Rumor has it in the flying J Parking lot, there are big money problems at Arnold Brothers and Rig Logistics.

One last thing, if you go Uber, your experience will not be reconized after 6 months, so you will have to start all over again. I suggest looking into Walmart (no joke) or XTL, lots of guys I know have already bailed and gone there, they enjoy it and are home every night/weekend off and it pays more than OTR at Bison or TransX.

 

I have a problem kind of like that because I tried Yard Jockey almost a year. Some companies don't see that as trucking experience and the better ones would like to see a year of recent experience in a road truck.

I applied to same tanker outfits and that's basically what I was told, so I'm 'refreshing' pulling vans for a year and might try again for tanker.