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Message:: [QUOTE="BigBadBill, post: 2031283, member: 50378"]Economy is sinking?!? Are you kidding?  Sure, politicians hate a responsible recovery.  But a slow grow back is what is needed and is the best things for trucking.  Booms are followed by busts.  If you have the money this is probably one of the best times to get into being an independent O/O.  Summer Slump?  That is so '07.  When the economy turned companies shrank inventories and implemented more Just in Time freight.  The slump would be demand down 10%.  Now it is estimated to be off less than 3% in most areas.  Ready manufacturing and logistics news and you will see that one of the issues facing these companies is what was once a 4-5 day shipping window has shrunk to less than 24-hours.  That is great news for the trucking industry.  And they are screaming louder than truckers about the proposed HOS rule changes.  But the same rules apply now as before.  If you don't have the capital to run a trucking business then you are going to find heart ache and despair no matter what the outlook is.[/QUOTE]