Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Plenty of potatoes loading out of Monte Vista. Broker I used to load for paid by the hundred wt, so lotsa scale dodging back in those days.

 

Did @tommymonza get banned some months back? Hadn’t saw him in a while now. Hope he’s ok.

 

I was poking around on Craigslist this morning and saw a 2022 dry van made by De Lucio. Never heard of the brand, but the price ,sure seems right for anybody who's looking. $47,600

I'm guessing that it's made in Mexico?

2022 DE LUCIO USA 53 ft x 102 Dry Van SAME DAY APPROVAL! - heavy...

 

Got the same email a few months ago for a Wal-Mart account out of Tobyhannah pa. I know out of there it would be a ton of Long Island/NYC. Even with them paying the tolls it's not worth it.

 

Yes.

Lost my #### phone a few days ago hopefully i can get AT&T to somehow get my contacts back.

 

The first part of this is hearsay but it’s from the brother of a close friend. Supposedly Peterbilt in Norfolk NE told his brother they have 7 389’s sitting almost complete in Denton with no engines. They said mid to late 2022 before Cummins can supply them engines to complete the trucks.

My friend talked to the KW salesman in Yakima today. The salesman told him that KW has meetings next week to determine dealer allotments. Once those are determined he’s going to call my friend back and let him know of available 2023 build slots. That 2023 wasn’t a typo.

It’s too late for me to make any changes this year so my plan is to sell my current truck and at least get the paperwork done on the new one before Dec 31. I’m thinking about taking delivery of my new one and then selling it in 2022 while everything is still inflated. That would give me the rest of the year before that money has to be used for something else to avoid paying a ton in taxes. Not sure what I’d do, but if I can clear $100k over what I financed and use that to start something else that might be the direction I go.

 

My AT&T phone did a forced update 2 weeks ago. While I was on the road it kept sending me notifications that I needed to download a security update. The second I got home and it automatically connected to my wifi it started downloading. A while later it said I needed to restart my phone, so I did. Then it just wouldn't restart after a number of tries. Called AT&T and we finally figured out that the update corrupted my phone and it needed to be reset to factory settings. I had the same concern, if my contacts and apps would be saved. Turns out when I bought the phone I set up a Google account on it, and they automatically backed up all my data and apps. So I was able to recover everything. So to answer your question, you should have been forced to set up a Google account when you bought the phone, and hopefully at the very least your contacts will be there.

 

It's probably over by now but by all means head back to KC to get a load. I did get potatoes out of some place just east of Denver that paid ok headed back to KC and then loaded east from there. Being a lazy half ### trucker I decided to never haul potatoes again after that experience but some people obviously do. I think just stick to eating them, not mucking up my trailer hauling them.

 

I'm just worried since it was straight talk through them. My phone came today but i have to get a SIM card tomorrow. I'm sure I'll be able to keep the same # just not sure of the contacts. I did the same set up as you so im thinking they have the info.........as much as sucks giving up personal info like that

 

Just curious if I understand this right...Do you mean, for instance, you finance $125K (after $50K down) and you can sell the thing for $225K?
That's a nice return - maybe 1 year worth of profit but then you become a fisherman without a boat. On the other hand, you can always line up for another allotment, while trying to do something else.

I spoke to more than a dozen dealers around Midwest and it seems that Nobody, who is trying to buy now, is getting any new trucks in 2022. That's it. Unless we see a huge transport industry implosion due to hyper-overcapacity - much bigger than 2019 - first half of 2020 - and buyers will get cold feet and cancel orders.