Faster truck = More loads, more pay!

What's going to kill them is the English speaking requirement. In El Paso?

 

They just started testing Cascadias. I see two or three every trip out to California.

 

That's new. I remember when all they had has Volvos. Now they run Apl containers.

 

Yea took me by surprise too.

 

i have never understood that "staying in the right lane equals less stress at the end of the day " line

i dont know how you can say driving across texas (900mi) at 62mph vs 75 mph is less stress

 

At 62 I could set the cruise and take power naps and stay rested.

 

When you're the slowest thing on the road, you don't have the stress of getting stuck behind someone going slower. Plus you get the joy of delaying everybody else when somebody with a truck .01mph faster than you "has" to pass.

 

They've been running containers back and forth from Phoenix to the Port of Long Beach for at least 2 years now that I know of. I was doing the same thing for Duncan & Sons at the time and picked up a container once from their container yard. They picked up containers from ours on a regular basis.

 

And it's off to the snail races.

 

Why in the world are they running containers that far? They probably couldn't make the train before it left running at 63 mph.