Running loads to California makes a miserable trip.

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  1. pumpkinishere

    pumpkinishere Heavy Load Member

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    Ya we’ve been considering because it’s a good way to get large deposit fast but ####. We are still trying to find our sweet spot. We bought a flatbed trailer but honestly right now we doing better on these power only dry van loads.
     
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  3. InTooDeep

    InTooDeep Donner party survivor

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    California still has Harris ranch on I 5. That place is a mess most of the time surprised they haven't tried to kick them out
     
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  4. pumpkinishere

    pumpkinishere Heavy Load Member

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    Harris ranch? Resturant? Cattle ranch?
     
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  5. pumpkinishere

    pumpkinishere Heavy Load Member

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    I remember as a kid I always thought California was a cool place to go. As a matter of fact I always wanted to go there but driving to San Francisco today the homeless tents and trash along the way very sad to see. It just sad in America that people live like that. I can’t imagine. I’m thankful and blessed but my heart breaks for those living in those conditions. As I was driving along I was hoping not to see kids in those tents, thank goodness I did not see any.
     
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  6. Diesel Dave

    Diesel Dave Last Few of the OUTLAWS

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    Don’t come back, ya hear……..;):cool:
     
  7. bzinger

    bzinger Road Train Member

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    Got burned out on California a couple years ago and said goodbye..haven't been back since .
    Don't miss it and revenue the same running omaha to penn and back.
     
  8. jason6541

    jason6541 Road Train Member

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    Not trying to argue with you but several companies a week take reefer cans to ports of LA/LB and Oakland every week for export to Japan of pork from Midwest.
    Several hundred loads every week. Still going on.
     
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  9. jason6541

    jason6541 Road Train Member

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    some of those people living in cars are making over 70k a year and can’t afford housing in the Bay Area. Went out several times and was talking to people parked a rest area. Use to be a nice state. But just goes to show what a certain political party over decades can do. Social experiment fail.
     
  10. ProfessionalNoticer

    ProfessionalNoticer Road Train Member

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    Unfortunately, the East coast is the same way.
     
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  11. Last Call

    Last Call Road Train Member

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    I'am sure your right.. but I'am also sure there is quit a bit less then there was.. also remember this went into effect 12 days ago you haven't even begun to see the effects yet...
    Smithfield is also a Chinese owned company and claim they reconfigured some of their barns to meet the requirements... that pork is going to China
    Personally I hope A bacon & eggs with sausage links breakfast cost 35.00 a plate now and chicken wings will now cost 50 a dozen in that commie state ....and I hope what they do get is all free range garbage .. that was raised in the mud & maure ..
    The only more uneducated about livestock than a Animal Rights Activists..is the Hollywood moive star that holds their hand and runs their month right with them.. just to see if they have any influence on the topic
     
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