The truth behind elogs.

Interesting hypothesis.

 

Mexican trucks are already able to drive throughout usa....the pilot program is over teamsters tried to fight in court and it got throwed out....

 

All I got to say about this

 

I do not care anymore frankly where the trucks come from as long the goods, fuel and food maintain delivery schedules.

NAFTA took a step towards Canadian and Mexican trucks to run inside these united states back in 1994. And they are working on updating NAFTA again.

Having ternimals in Laredo makes no sense. The freight for example Meats alone is in a triangle of these United States bounded by Fort Collins CO, Plainview Texas, Dumas Tx, Garden City Texas, Omaha NE and certain other meat plants in that general area. These plants kill thousands of livestock per day and employ many hundreds if not thousands of migrant workers to chop and load the meats into the trailers which go to all three coasts asap. There are certain other spots around the USA that are hold outs for other kinds of meats such as Pork Products in VA down to the Carolinas for example. I believe the Chinese bought many of these larger facilities to secure the food supply for China to export to their homeland from our Nation. Global trade at it's best. We bring in Aussie Beef, South AMerican beef and other meats as well. Whatever the prices will support. It will be moved to and from the United States when and where it profits the most the people and companies with the power to do it.

Retail is dying. Amazon Rules. The growing power of Amazon is incredible. One of my relatives published a book a couple of weeks ago. A few thousand first run copies plus electronic copies etc is published and shipped via Amazon. Other nations are already using thier exchange rates to charge a little more than the basic price we charge for a copy and drop ship via Amazon to buyers in their country with little to no effort whatsover. Ebay and Amazon get their cut of the fees, the resellers get a few dollars, author gets the price she is asking for. etc. But the books will move. It does not matter if it's 1 copy or 5000 coplies, Amazon makes it happen. We just sit back and do nothing now that it's published. The cost? 3000 dollars. It will take a certain amount of sales to recoup the three thousand dollar expense in publishing a book. It's not much of a book but it's her book and she is now beginning to understand that she IS a generator of work in our Globalized economy when someone clicks buy for a copy of that book online.

If the internet went away and we had to sell the book the hard way, it's going to start at the libraries and we would have had to personally pack and ship the books from the house. It will be nuts with that phone rining off the hook. Maybe china will order 10,000 copies and reprint it to Chinese from english. They will make a bunch of money. So would the relative. (Minus royalites etc.)

I use the book publishing as a example of producing something and selling it on the American and Global Market to anyone with the money and buy now address. Amazon is so big they inhaled the entire book run and they will ship and have.

I think Amazon has gotten big enough now to start considering purchasing of say JB hunt. And other large companies to secure their supply resources and equiptment to make sure they have trucks and drivers to run the freight.

They will do nothing but Teams. SIngles will not have a trucking job anymore. HOS will make sure of that in Elogs. If you do not have a teamate now and into the future until Robotic tractor trailers take over you are facing a situation where you, the solo long haul trucker will essentially be stuck on the porch. If you are not doing LTL or regional bouncing around from Amazon warehouse to FED EX shipping and back again. They will be please to load a team with 48,000 pounds of stuff prepacked into airfreight contianers to stuff into cargo 747's in Memphis and outta here for all sorts of places by morning.

Long haul trucking would be just too slow eventually. Not until dedicated closed highways are built and protected with a tower FAA style at every exit and closed to ALL NON trucking vehicles and cars and so on. The result would be a carefully organized 200 mph platooned 18 wheelers running coast to coast in a day and night and back again the next day and night. Potentially daily round trip services LA to NY. Just need to increase the speeds 3 to 5 times what they are today and weed out anyone with any kind of violation anywhere in life. If you had a ticket for 15 over you would not be hired period in this brave new future of trucking.

At the same time railroads will have to increase to 150 mph instead of the standard FRA track speed of 79 for freight today that passes for mainline travel in the USA for freight. If they are content with 10 day service coast to coast as currently happens (While #####ing and firing drivers 15 minutes late on a three day team run to Boston...)

That is what gets me. Stuff 15000 containers on a Panamax ship in China. Take 2 months to cross the wide Pacific and all of a sudden American customers cry and scream that they want the Mr Coffee container load yesterday.

It's not that important to the Country. WHen will everyone understand this? I don't know, you ask me.

 

What is the difference if you send the exact same message to somebody via text, email, postal mail or carrier pigeon?

The only difference is the delivery method.

The same can be said of elogs or paper logs. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE! They are just different ways to record HOS. Given that, it clearly indicates elogs is not the problem, HOS is the problem.

TA

 

Why pay drivers? Just get self driving trucks.

 

LOL

 

I didn't read it.

Was it good? Useful? Enlightening?