[Ronaldus Magnus III]

In the Kalifornia ports, they placed restrictions on the age of the trucks that can operate there. If you have a perfectly good truck to pull a load, but it is too old, you cannot pick it up.

[Chani]

I notice blank spaces on my grocery store shelves, that never stopped being there since the plandemic. It varies, one week I can’t find my orange juice concentrate, then a few weeks later it reappears. But then it’s something else that’s missing. I keep thinking about the old Soviet Union pictures of their store shelves, and their bread lines. Welcome to the Great Reset, I guess.

[tired&retired]

Freight charges down, fuel prices up. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

The Federal Tax Receipts are way down in 23 over 22, while tax rates went up. Thanks Bidenomics.

[Carriage Hill]

Pennsylvania Ping!
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Temporarily filling-in for lightman, while he's smashing PA's demonKKKrat voting poll fraud & corruption, on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday.

[Jumper]

We bought new trucks to meet the current demand, and now they reap the rewards of the greed based opportunist company. They should have at least consulted a host of banks, investment firms and even state and federal government before investing in millions of dollars worth of new vehicles.

Instead they looked at the current demand and when wild trying to cash in. Greed and a lack of any foresight.

[Sequoyah101]

In other words, the spending spree of printed money is grinding down and we might return to something more like a normal spending pattern? Lets hope so.

Meanwhile, we still have the mountain of M1 and M2 printed money looming over us along with higher interest rates and now inflated cost of everything.

Trillons are still being wasted on xiden programs that will go nowhere. Try to picture how to spend $32,000,000 per mile of railroad tracks that already are in place. Only by waste can you do that. It is just one small example of the xiden waste our money is being used for.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Prepper Ping - The 'Supply Chain' gets even tighter, and with increasing jeopardy
This article is about truckers and dropping transport rates, however trans-oceanic shipping (Baltic), rail, and air flights similarly affected
A combination of increased expenses, inflation, new trucking vehicles, increased competition, and a drop in consumer demand resulted in the demise of Yellow Trucking

"..Two months ago, 30,000 truckers at Yellow lost their jobs when one of the nation’s oldest and largest trucking companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Last week, Convoy, the digital freight broker that was supposed to reinvent the wheel and disrupt the trucking industry in a positive way,
also abruptly shuttered its doors.

"These kinds of closings by both freight carriers lay bare the uncertain state of trucking,
an industry that is an indicator of the mood of the consumer and also the beating heart of our economy. "

“In my opinion, this industry is heading in the wrong direction, and when trucking and supply chain freight is heading in the wrong direction, so is the country.
I am just not sure that people understand there is a problem,” said Rick McQuaide, who runs a freight company
in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, as well as in Florida. "

"“The damage started when people went on a spending spree during COVID-19.
The government was giving out cash, and people started ordering things in a way they have never done before,” McQuaide explained. As a result, McQuaide said, new trucks were on the road to meet the consumers’ needs. "

"Beginning last year, that need started to recede when consumers’ spending spree started to ebb, and, as a result, several different things have happened in the industry,
beginning with too many trucks in comparison to the amount of freight that is available."

"That, McQuaide said, hits the truckers and truck companies hard: “The economy is slowing from its frenzy, people aren’t buying anymore,
which means there are more trucks on the road than there are loads, and it’s forcing the rates down.”

"McQuaide said his company’s rates are about 20% lower than last year." (Emphasis Mine)

“In other words, last year, we go from Pittsburgh to Allentown, maybe $1,200. This year, we’re lucky to get $900,” he said,
adding, “You have more truckers fighting for the same loads that exist now, and that’s driving the rates down.”
Truckers are making less than they did in per-mile peak earnings, McQuaide said.

"“Inflation plays a big part of that — at the same time, operating costs are going up.”
McQuaide, who also owns and runs a logistics company that has a series of warehouses holding imports and exports, says the freight recession is real."
“It isn’t just in the trucking world. It is also in air freight and in the rail industries.”