Well it's the only one that is pro gun, pro choice, and pro weed. There's nowhere else to go.
Glad the adults are in charge
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What's the answer, let the robots drive the trucks?
I respect the hell out of whoever can do it though. I know I can't. Tried when I was 21 and chickened out. There's no way in hell now. Wouldn't pass the physical probably. Even if I did, way too nervous. Nerves couldn't take it at all. I'd just run the truck into the first wall I found to get it over with.
Respect and wishing that diesel wasn't $4.11 a gallon is the best I can do.
I respect the hell out of whoever can do it though. I know I can't. Tried when I was 21 and chickened out. There's no way in hell now. Wouldn't pass the physical probably. Even if I did, way too nervous. Nerves couldn't take it at all. I'd just run the truck into the first wall I found to get it over with.
Respect and wishing that diesel wasn't $4.11 a gallon is the best I can do.
That is a part of it and some of those regulations (like empty trailer stacking heights) have been waived for a while. But it’s not nearly as easy as removing regulations and everything snapping back.
Some of it is truckers not thinking what they would get paid is worth it and the companies not wanting to fork any more money over. That tends to eventually balance out but we’re in the waiting part of “eventually” right now.
Some of it is a basically unavoidable result of a huge backlog created by a lot of people being out sick.
Some of it is that money that would’ve normally been spent on vacations and restaurants was instead spent on webcams and blenders (etc, of course), increasing the amount of stuff that needed shipped relative to the overall economy. If a shipping company looked and saw economic activity would be down, pulling a number out of my ass, 50%, they may have cut their planned shipping 50%. It didn’t work out that way.
Some of it is that containers are in the wrong place. China shipped way more containers than normal to third world countries with masks and other PPE stuff. Those counties aren’t shipping containers full of stuff back.
So there are some regulations that were rolled back that helped and there might well be more that ought to be, but there’s no magic bullet single solution here.
