Oldeskool has bailed out

Wishing you all the best in your new chapter of life.

 

Good luck @OldeSkool

Let us know how the log haulin goes

 

Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes the juice aint worth the squeeze and if your life is better cutting the crap. Then do what is required.

 

It sounds like you have good reasons and a good plan. Good luck.

 

Good luck, as a recent changer I get what you’re talking about. Best of luck in the new endeavor

 

That's great news. I don't what will happen in this industry, but it won't be O/Os, that's for sure. Please be careful hauling "sticks", don't turn your back on the "pile" for a second. I've seen some videos of stick haulers in the PNW, that do some incredible driving with some of those loads, and water to cool the brakes. Lot of respect for those drivers. Good luck, you did grand, laddie,,

 

O/O will always be plentiful. There's a group of them that weather the ups and downs just fine. But there's a much larger group who are the revolving door of dreamers/failures that get quickly replaced by more dreamers/failures. Used trucks are getting cheaper by the day. All those extra pandemic new authorities that exploded onto the scene in recent years have not been wiped out just yet. Together those two things sound like a recipe for an extended down cycle of rates to me because whatever little meager uptick is going on right now in response to $5 fuel is not going to last and the dreamers won't be deterred.

 

Not sure about plentiful, O/Os were plentiful in my day( 70s-90s) In some situations, O/Os will always be needed, mostly for the piddly crap the biggies don't want, and that could be huge again someday. I disagree about the dreamers, but we have to remember, if it wasn't for dreamers, our world would be a very different place. Dreamers today have much different "dreams" than we had. An old(er) timer once told me, "isn't half a loaf of bread better than none"? Apparently not, and failure doesn't have near the consequences today as it once did. Who's to blame? We are. We created this mess and not sure how it will end up, but for now, you wouldn't catch me in a big debt situation, like a truck today. My 1st truck in the late 80s, a '82 WS conv. with new motor, cost me $22,000, or about $57,000 today, fuel was .78/gal. and O/Os were in high demand. I pulled rail cans out of Chicago for almost 4 years with it, and did okay. Grossed about $75gs/year.( almost $197gs today) I don't ever see that coming back.