Picked Wrong Industry; Laid Off; Now What?

People seem to think that cold/frozen food is the answer if things go very south.

Let me ask you...
Why?
Frozen is way less important than dry if fuel is scarce or so expensive that it makes keeping things cold into a heavy burden.
If power goes out the cold stuff will go bad.
We can live without frozen food. but we can not live without the dry stuff.

If things really tanked to the bottom and you had no communication or other means of contact, no fuel to go anywhere and electricity was out - which would you rather have a load of?
A load of frozen chickens or a load of Bush's Baked Beans?


Roll that beautiful bean footage... says the dog.

 

Meat and produce will always need to be transported. There is not a way to do so without a refrigerated trailer.

 

If we are not hauling frozen foods, think Fall Out 4

 

Dry freight is the first to fall off and had the most capacity built in. We're already seeing that. Once fuel shot up, families felt the pinch and stopped buying so much stuff off Amazon. Once amazon stopped getting the orders, they stopped shipping freight. Once those thousands of O/Os had no freight from Amazon, they began combing the load boards to keep the lights on. Once they hit the load boards, the brokers saw the massive increase in capacity and slammed rates to the toilet.

Now they're fighting over $1.80 loads.

Meanwhile reefer capacity remained about the same (only so many viable trailers out there). Reefer loads didn't decrease... the contents of the trailers may have changed from name brand to off brand, or from Prime Beef to Pork Chops, but roughly the same amount of freight is moving as last year at this time.

If it ever gets bad enough where reefers aren't moving, you won't be driving anyway. You'd be too busy hunting/gathering food for your family.

 

In short--VER-RY BAD advice.

Many of the best-paying jobs in the industry require a hazmat endorsement.

If your instructor is/was correct--then why do these jobs pay so darn well? Dumb luck?

--Lual

 

I thought you can bring any size dog with you as long as you have a pet policy

 

Its called a POLICY. All policies vary from place to place and are set by the company itself.

 

Really…. DEF is literally Urea and Water—— how could there possibly be a shortage of these items!