Celadon on the ropes...

I am never going to work for a mega carrier again...
And yes. Big G has been awesome...

 

That's nice.

A stiff rising waters of costs, bills and such should push publicly owned carriers into the deep sea.

I hate to say it, but carriers must thrive or go out of business.

I remember Amtrack as a big Joke around DC for decades, always short of everything except excons to scrape rust and grafitti off the train cars as community service ordered by the courts. Putting around at 100 mph while Europe flies at speeds fast enough to cause short haul airlines to go out of business.

If we monitored bad companies with terrible dispatch, no miles and abuse ranging from corection to run illegal deliveries HOS busting to bad trucks never being fixed and everything in between the way we are monitoring the death of Celadon... the Industry should be much better aint it so?

For me the winds of change was in the air when the Cherokee was bought by those who are native to the middle east and run as such with casino gambling added to the back. It was time to find another truckstop that might still be owned by Americans. Maybe the old 501 Dixie was it. A cookie to anyone who knows where THAT is....

 

Dixie; there were a few of those. Do you mean the one on old Route 66?

 

That's one. Forgot about that one. Augh.

I was thinking of one not too far from Raliegh. Southwards towards the South Carolina Line. Now that I think on it there is a whole bunch of dixies. I should have selected a better truckstop example. ugh. Coffee is still brewing, I aint sharp yet.

 

Reminds me of the old days. 77 Sunset Strip and Route 66, television shows. Edd Byrnes on 77 Sunset Strip always combing his hair; "Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb." Not too long ago he was banned from appearances at car shows because he cursed a little girl that wanted his autograph at a Las Vegas auto show. He was swearing that anyone that wants his autograph has to pay for it, because it's not free. The guys a jerk and said when he was growing up in New york City he made easy money by hanging around the YMCA and trolling for rich old men; he has to be an idiot to admit to that during a public interview.

 

https://www.ibj.com/articles/63803-behind-the-news-inside-the-issues-that-grounded-celadon


.........bring the butter going to need it to go with your popcorn.

 

What does the load board look like now. Is it still business as usual or are you starting to see changes yet?

 

On DAT Celadon posts some nice paying loads and nobody is taking them. They are probably freaking out now

 

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Not really..... I mean I run a triangle lane so take home is the same depending on fuel that week. One half of the lane actually brings me to celadon's greenwood (Indianapolis) DC. Rates are still the same. Funny thing is it's supposed to be preloaded and a live unload at greenwood but their a shortage of trailers.