You think it is live unload but they want you to drop it...

This is more like buying at the beginning of 2014... but yeah it's not as good as it looks.

 

It will bottom out again, it's just a matter of when. It has been that way for the last 30 yrs I have been involved in trucking. Up and down, they jump in during the good times, jump out during the lean times.

 

Loadbord, broker or company?

See what I mean!!!

 

I call them summer children around my office. The inept people who pop into the business in an up cycle. I think it has a much nicer ring to it than ####ing morons. Obviously by labeling someone this in my mind I'm fantasizing about them losing their house when the market crashes. Sorry not sorry.

 

On the flip side if any of you run into any Owner ops whose MC starts with a 9 you should show some respect. These people mostly got into the business in 2014... which means they just survived a meat grinder with almost no resources. Their overall competence level as a group is very high. There also aren't very many of them still around.

 

If you can't hibernate you had better be planning to operate in very bad conditions. Personally I like getting fat enough during the good times that I can sit on my ### for years if need be.

I honestly have no idea how people who live hand to mouth stay sane. I'd lose my mind. But I'm pretty high strung I guess.

 

I don't understand this reply. Does this mean I'm stupid?

 

No it means I'm confusing. I was saying that the people who are spending money like it will always be this way are headed for a beating. I'm one of those people who wouldn't feel safe without 24 months of living expenses saved up.