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2023-11-07 Economy

What the 'Great Trucking Recession' Is Warning Us About the Economy

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-07 01:25|| || Front Page|| [19 views ] Top

#1 So class - trucking, ocean shipping and air freight demand is down simultaneously. What does that tell us about the actual state of the domestic economy?

Posted by Griter Slash1619 2023-11-07 08:43|| 2023-11-07 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 We are about to achieve actual lockdown.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-11-07 08:48|| 2023-11-07 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Drove up the center of Florida on Saturday, every little town was having a community wide yard sale. If people would give up on shiny new Chinese crap, buy existing stuff and the country generate a healthy industry of refurbishment / repair shops, we could re-make the "consumer economy" in ways that would benefit the USA instead of the rest of the world.

Of course, nobody (WEF, cough, cough) wants that.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-07 08:49|| 2023-11-07 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 I will add, who was walking around at all those sales? Immigrant families.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-07 08:49|| 2023-11-07 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 The Old Big Rigs – What It Was Like To Drive Them

"Retired? See the Country, Drive a Big Rig"

Are older commercial truck drivers causing more danger on nation's highways?

Company drivers may stay employed as the industry winds down but retirees that cashed their 401ks to buy a rig are going to hurt.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-07 10:21|| 2023-11-07 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Used to love hearing WWL's Road Gang show during night shifts when I was too busy or too tired to read. Nothing like shivering at the weather in Revelstoke while soaking and sweating in the muggly stuff between two fans. Dragged me taste in country music kicking and screaming into the '50s.

Posted by Chirong Lumumba6331 2023-11-07 22:20|| 2023-11-07 22:20|| Front Page Top

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