Freight shortage?

GhostInTheMachine17 · Oct 2, 2023

DUNE-T · Oct 2, 2023

Catmando said: ↑

No I would not
You ever heard the saying .. I wouldn't piss on them if their guts were on fire ?
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Well, I would..

Last Call · Oct 2, 2023

DUNE-T said: ↑

Well, I would..
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I'am not like you I'am thankfull

Bret1984 · Oct 2, 2023

Jeez, can't even ask about freight rates and availability without a bunch of bickering. The digital ch-19...

Siinman · Oct 2, 2023

DUNE-T said: ↑

Yeah, you can admire small towns with simple life after experiencing college and city life. You are now wise and know how things work in this life. You can choose to live in a country side, but you can always go back to a busy complicated life if you wanted to, because you already have skills and experience.

On the other side a person who grows up in a village and never gets educated, does not have that choice, they are only limited to what they know.
This man will grow up being a simpleton, because he never reads any books, his grammar will be so horrendous, that it gonna give headaches to people reading their Internet posts, he will be thinking that he looks cool threatening others to knock their teeth out, because they have different opinion than him.
The sad thing is you really can't blame him, because he grew up in a village where everyone was the same.
He can't and does not want to understand people of other race or religion. He wears his red color hat and stays completely brainwashed, ignorant and blind to the big different things happening in the big world, which he has never seen, because his dad never thought it would be a good idea to spend money on lots of books or visiting different countries to learn about other people culture.

Being a teenager his biggest dream is a tuned diesel pickup truck with an exhaust pipe blowing black smoke. He loves mud trucking and drinking some cheap funny tasting liquid that is called beer (he never tried good real beer, because his local convenience store does not carry anything besides few cheap mainstream drinks).

If this guy becomes a truck driver, he will buy a long nose classic Pete, will stretch the frame, install a shifter taller than his head, install a sun visor blocking half of the windshield, remove mufflers and use engine brake whenever he can, even if it's not needed, even if it wakes half the village or half the truck stop at night, just to impress the same type of village boys as him or make himself seem cool.
He will drive that truck like a maniac tailgating others, he will call other drivers snowflakes for driving aero dynamic trucks and he will just refuse to give up that 5mpg truck even if there is no economical sense in it, just because by getting rid of it, a huge part of his identity will be gone.

Since no young educated girl can fall in love with him and move to the boonies, he marries a nice girl from another village. Since they don't know or don't have access to different sorts of entertainment, they keep drinking that cheap "beer", do mud trucking, watch TV and make babies. When those babies grow up, they end up the same as their parents. Because again, that's all they know.

Yeah, while I agree that nowadays college a lot of times is a waste of money, it's still essential to get educated without getting an useless degree with a crap load of student debt.

Of course I also know that not all country people are the same as I described and there are plenty of exceptions, however that is the norm. The only ones different are those who got educated. That brings us back to the original argument. Leaving in a Metro one has better access to education vs somebody who grew up and got raised in the middle of nowhere and unless that village boy is different and reads books nonstop vs hanging out with his buddies, he is gonna end up just like his parents.

Sorry if I hurt someone's feelings, but the amount of teethless, overweight, dirty, can't put together a sentence, truck drivers is just staggering. Yeah, not all of them are from a country side, many are from the cities, but still, all of them seem like they struggled to finish high school.
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Man you sound like the Media, You may want to look in those inner city low income areas and see if this does not ring a bell. I see what you are describing more and more with in the project areas minus the Big Truck and Smoke and Family Life!

Funny I grew up in these small villages and was an actually Village since it had less then 50 people in the town. Also had less then 200 People in our K-12 school whom produced a few millionaires from my class alone. I never traveled much when I was a child either but Dad fought in WW2 and seen more than most ever will of the world. Funny how your view of the world is incredible different from this small town guy view.

Bret1984 · Oct 2, 2023

As for the city vs county debate I've done both. While I'd rather hang out with someone who is reasonably articulate than someone with few teeth and fewer brain cells (provided they're not a communist) I'd definitely take that farmer or rancher all day and everyday over a banger or a crackhead. If your worldview is one where everyone in the city are all scholars and everything outside of the city is just trailer parks then trucking is certainly a good profession for you as you definitely need to get out more. Large metros do have some of the best schools but also some of the worst ones too and a trucking job isn't going to afford you a place in that more desirable zip code unfortunately.
That being said I did relocate from my little west Texas town where I was perfectly happy to DFW which was never my favorite place for a reason. Before I was extremely limited on companies that I could work for because I was outside of the hiring area of pretty much every medium to large carrier. So I made the decision to endure a lot more traffic and a far higher cost of living in order to have more choices when it came to employment. So I'm no longer at the mercy of Pedro and his amigos at their 5 broke down trucks backyard llc.

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