As long as you're not wearing your wife's undies, you'll be OK. :wink:

But hey, it's April 1st. I took the interstate to work today. O/O's everywhere...one even blew my doors off. :roll:

I'm looking forward to a 30 mile trip down I-80 later today...I guarantee you that drivers will still be running over the speed limit, still taking cheap freight, and still playing with 2 or 3 coloring books. :roll:

 

That's true. If all shippers were working to hold back freight or carriers were trying to inflate supply...personally, I don't think that's the case.

That's the cheapest price I see in the Truckpaper today. Many are in the $130,000+ range. 2 years ago you could have gotten a T600 in the $90-$110,000 price range. Pretty decent bump.

 

Look at all of the big time billy big riggers making the big bucks. No way would you shutdown in support of a fellow trucker. No you would rather stab them in the backs,yeah you're worse than the government. Your asses will be broke when Bush's Mexican trucks are hauling your cheap freight. You people will be lumping for the Mexican truckers and begging them for welfare.
Even the ones who are not hurting should support some effort,you lousy bastards wouldn't admit it. Just like channel 19 you have the liars who brag about the big bucks they make. The point is you silly bastards can't afford to shutdown because you are the ones hauling the cheap freight and are the same ones facing foreclosures,unless you already have or could never buy a house because your credit is shot and you're big time owner-operators leased to Prime or J.B. Hunt what a bunch of SmaXXX!
I hope the day arrives when one or all of you are on the side of the road and hurting and this guy in the Blue Marmons drives by and hits you in the face with a piss-filled paper cup.
It's a sad day in trucking when you people call yourselves truckers,business people,or Americans. You people are the new breed of second class Americans and you will pay for not supporting this effort!

 

Please explain using business terminology why I would even consider the idea of shutting down my business in support of my competition.

:lol:

Again, using real grown up words, explain why I would want to shut down to support my competition.

You better take some lessons on reverse psychology, because your skills are severely lacking. This tactic was already tried last night. :roll:

It's a sad day in trucking when some 41 post wonder comes onto a message board and admits to pissing in a paper cup. GIT R DUN!

 

Real nice rant there. :roll:

And some truckers actually wonder why the population as a whole carries such a dim view of the profession.

:roll: :roll: :roll:

 

ok let me play devil's advocate on this one

support yes but it's hard to support people that have setup a business without doing everything thay can to make money. i'm more incline to support a driver that when out and paid 20k cash for a used century than i am to support a driver that just spent 100k on a long hood pete. why well the driver that paid 20k cash has no truck payments and the century will get better fuel mileage and with fuel being the single highest expense you should always be doing everything you can to save fuel that way you will have more money in your pocket at the end of the day why welfare..? i know how to work credit what's that "never had it never used it and yes the house, land, cars, trucks, boat, bike, and four-wheeler were all paid for with cash. "it called CASH flow..! i have cash so it flows why if thay are making money then THAY know what thay are doing well we can all hope for something i just hope our truck is out of the shop tormorrow i'm all three looks like just your typical rant from an unhappy person...

 

Flood may I ask you a question concerning this particular posted piece:

Where at on I-84 did this happen at? As I live in the Gorge area and I am quite familiar with I-84, I have not seen any U-turns available on the freeway exept for the onramp only (meaning one has to get off the freeway in order to turn around to even make a semblance of a U-turn)

As for the speeds, anywhere else other than Gresham the basic speeds is 65 for cars, 55 for trucks, but 5 mph over the reg limit is forgiven in these areas from what I heard in Oregon.

In Gresham on to the I-205 exchange is 60 mph for cars, 55 for trucks, then down from that westward to 55 overall.

Basically most trucks will go faster if they can do so. its a given.

 

What strike? no less trucks around 294 in Chicago I can say that for sure