Pardon me for seeming dense, but why would the trucks just stop rolling? I can think of two reasons: EMP and nuclear war. Of course, there’s also plague and a zombie apocalypse, but you get my drift. Basically, the trucks are just a symptom of a larger catastrophe. I don’t think an economic recession or even a severe depression would bring American commerce to a standstill.
why would the trucks just stop rolling? I can think of two reasons: EMP and nuclear war.
How about widespread murder and looting? Why drive a truck if you think there’s a pretty good chance you’ll get shot?
Many, many reasons.
For one - imagine multiple Reginald Denny incidents in every town and city across the country where the zombies comprise a significant part of the population.
That scenario is not too far fetched once the country goes bankrupt and the handouts have to be cut back.
New Madrid EQ and bridges down.
Terrorists and bridges down.
Grids disrupted due to other causes besides EMP (read debates about that), such as hacking. Or above mentioned EQ.
I can see Hussein causing chaos in the trucking industry when he declares martial law and curfews. Yes, some trucks are required to limit drive times to certain hours and total hours but many aren’t. If he sets in place curfews, can you imagine how many companies won’t be able to produce much less ship? Think how quickly he’d swoop in to “save” those industries.
While you may be right there, perhaps you need to realize this isn't about a recession/depression.
It's about other factors that could stop the engines of the country mid-stroke.
Possibilities: EMT strike from foreign country - at least 2-3 we know of who have been working for years to develop and deliver to the US
Solar flare like the one in the 1800's that blew up telegraph transformers and equipment in offices - about the only things 'on line' at that time. Now every thing is 'online' - including gas pumps. The sun just came out of an unprecedented few years of ZERO suns spots. Right now, the sun is alive with sunspots - including one increasingly active sun spot - so huge and active that the NASA scientists are calling it The Monster Sunspot." - and it's throwinf out giant solar flares - if the eartrh takes a direct hit ???
There's also that pesky little EO that dear leader recently and quietly signed into law allowing him - and even him alone - to declare Martial Law - for ANY REASON he deems - thereby immediately taking over total control of ALL resources, from food, to gas, to distribution to confiscating foods in your home. Under his 'laws', if you have storage foods, it is no longer "storing", it's "hoarding' and you are a FELON.
Are you getting the picture yet?
If not, I suspicion you need to check your gray matter cells and/or you, like a long time acquaintance of mine, (who works in a gun shop!) suffer from deep denial as to what is going on in this country. He said to me yesterday, in all seriousness, (in reply to my remark that dear leader has been super great for one industry - guns & ammo.
He quickly admitted that guns/ammo sales had NEVER been to brisk as since dear leader donned his crown - but, he finds it a dilema since, in his words: " (dear leader) is the one president that has NEVER made any move towards gun control, in any way, EVER."
I was speechless.
(One of my sons is a long hauler. Ask the long haulers what they think of the tumbleweeds blowing through totally empty storefronts in shopping malls straight across the country.
there is already a GREAT decline in goods being shipped - even with WalMart. Best Buy is done. Staples is closing across the country. JC Penny's is collapsing - Walmart is even closing stores. Trucks can only deliver what there is to deliver.
So keep you head in the sand, or up dear leaders nether regions, wherever it is - just consider you'll have no right to bang on neighbors doors for food. Consider the parable of the virgins and the oil lamps.
The same reason the trains stopped rolling in England - union strike. We're one truckers' strike away from total social meltdown at any time.
No Fuel, Too many Regulations, start there and report back to us.
