re: Prepare your anuses - domestic supply chain is about to get a lot worse come December

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You always need the money. These morons should be making bank while they still can.

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Tell me you don't deal with truck drivers without telling me you don't deal with truck drivers.

Unfortunately a good bit of them have this mentality, then will get nervous when things get slow. For several years we had a driver hired that wanted to make X amount of revenue per week, if he hit that revenue on Wednesday he wouldn't work the rest of the week. Stupid, I know, but this is the way some of these guys operate.

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good looking co-driver

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They’re hard to find. I might have seen only one good looking female driver in my 8 years of the freight business.

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Walmart just rolled out driverless trucks, and Amazon and others are also trialing the technology. These people are literally watching their jobs disappear and they're taking off months because they made enough money?

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This notion that AI will completely take over the trucking industry in the near future is some of the dumbest shite being pushed.

Even assuming AI can complete the drive from point A to point B there will still need to be a driver in the truck to take over where AI cannot navigate. AI will not load the truck, AI will not secure the load, AI will not tarp a load, etc etc. There's more to being a truck driver than holding a steering wheel for 11 hours a day.

The problem there is half these drivers don’t think long term. The other half have a spouse nagging them to be home for holidays (which I can appreciate) because they have already made way more $ than any other year.

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If 10K a week for 3 months is sustainable, I might just learn to drive a rig for 3 months a year and hang out 9 months. That is if I don't have to provide my own truck.

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Seen it on the back of a big rig yesterday. $2,800 every week, after all expenses, no truck needed. I thought about it for a split second.

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I'm in the wrong career field

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Tell me you don't deal with truck drivers without telling me you don't deal with truck drivers.

Unfortunately a good bit of them have this mentality, then will get nervous when things get slow.

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I deal with construction guys who have the same mentality. Work 60 hours a week for a few months, followed by not wanting to work at all, followed by begging for work, rinse/repeat.

Remember back in august when Kamala said you better do your Christmas shopping now. It’s almost like this is all part of the elites plan to destroy this country and rebuild it as something they have total control over

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I work in truck and rail logistics for a mega retailer. Just got off a conference call with one of our main flatbed and dry van carriers on the West Coast.

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Yep, it’s about to get crazy bad. Been telling people since May because my job heavily relies on California ports. It’s been a disaster. Hope y’all have enough food.