It's amazing GMAN how much money flows when you get up to that level. You know there is a lot of money down here in South Florida and sometimes it's amazing when you find out what some of these people do or who lives in that big house on the beach. My first local job out of school was hospital laundry servicing. I mean the place where they cleaned the sheets was just one building out of thousands down here but the owner had so much money it wasn't funny. He actually was there a lot too standing outside smoking.
As you can tell I ask a lot of questions. Sometimes some of these people just own companies of common things but reap a ton of money.
I remember in Texas one time at one of those Mop & Pop truckstops I saw an old man in one of those expensive Rv's from Florida so I got to talking to him He was the owner of a couple of Chevy dealers or some car dealer. There must be thousands of those dealers and he just owned a couple but he was a millionaire (I looked into him after). His name was Red something Doghouse might have heard of him as his dealerships were near where he is from I think. Salesman to the end too cause as we shook hands goodbye he told me to come see him when I need a new car (I never buy new).
The point of all of this besides I'm sitting at home waiting for my load to be ready (now they say 10pm) is that it seems once you get to a certain level then it doesn't seem too hard to make it (keeping it of course is another thing.) I mean we all are working trying to get ahead and a lot of times I think that it can't be so hard. I don't know just musing I guess.
Glad to hear you are ok no_worries. Thought you fell in back in the Chinese Buffett in Charlotte which was where you were heading last I heard.
It does seem that when things go wrong they all go wrong at once.
There sure is a lot of ink being spilt on this industry. Massive in scale honestly. I have been reading Packer about the produce market and also Inbound Logistics which is free to get. I see why they say to find your niche because this industry is so wide you can never encompass it all. Information is definitely key, otherwise you are just another pawn on the board. Me I don't want to be a pawn. Not saying I have to be a king or a Queen either but a Rook wouldn't be so bad.
By the way, I was listening to the Democratic debate today and one of them said that 80% of our food is imported. I found that hard to believe as from the little I have seen in the short time I have been doing this is that there is a lot of food produced within this country. I don't think I heard him wrong either.