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Re: Hmmm, fuel is down but not shipping charge
 Originally Posted by Shadera
Sister.  I was one of the few solo lady drivers out there. No hairy legged pot bellied freighthauler here. LOL I ended up having to sell the truck at a huge loss which just broke my heart because I was only about twenty grand from paying it off. I'd had her since she was new and was the first to fart in the seats. I hauled mostly meat and beer which were some of the better paying loads I could find and lumped it myself to save those outrageous fees at the other end. I usually did a produce backhaul. Fuel just kept going up, and the surcharges weren't enough to cover it. I was hauling for Rocor out of OKC, and when they sold out to Prime I just threw my hands up and got out. I drove local company stuff for a while and had a good gig driving into downtown Pittsburgh every day to deliver produce.
I hung up the steering wheel for good a couple years ago, but I still get the itch to chase the white line once in a while. I miss falling asleep to the purr of the caterpillar and the smell of diesel.
Best of luck and be safe out there. Keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your... you know. 
Sorry that it turned out that way. I was never over the road only local, i do not really miss being in the truck.
 Originally Posted by elevatethis
Yeah! Hail Communism!
People complaining about prices not going down...how about people making the decision to earn more? Take a second or part-time job....Go to school...ask for more responsibility at work to justify a raise...market your business better...do something, anything, to be more productive. Seem like the working generation here can't get over their sense of entitlement, and make a change to combat the problem, rather than just complain about it.
That would be taking responsibility for ones self, don't be stupid, we should be poor trash to make the people with no ambition in life feel better.
 Originally Posted by wilomn
Yes, the drive for profit. It is in control of many like you. It justifies all sorts of creepy things. I MUST do this because of the stock holders.
BULLSNOT.
You owe it to your stockholders not to make such stupid decisions as to lock yourself into contracts that make you pay twice what a necessary product costs everyone else. What happened to your economic forecasts? No one there reading a paper? Not watching the news? Or are all you and your 401K carrying friends so busy bending over to allow profit to remain high that you forget to take a look around you?
No point in actually taking some of those profits and improving production, no no no, that would cut down of profits. For the short term. We can't have that can we? Going two or three or maybe five years without those profits doubling every year just isn't acceptable. Of course the fact that putting money into infrastructure, like those scrubbers or new plants, would not only increase profits in the long term, but make the world a slightly better place for not only stock holders but the rest of us poor schmucks who don't have 401ks.
I guess to guys like you, from what you have said, that profit, no matter the cost, is the goal.
Go get em tiger, go get em.
You obviously have no concept of running a business. It takes balance and hard work, sleepless nights, and tearing your hair out when things go wrong. Just because you are complacent about your position in life why does that make me an evil person because I want to better myself.
I have seen you attack people time and time again with pointless posts that have no real substance to them. You should really know what you are talking about before making your self look silly. It takes little effort to see your agenda, I am sorry that you do not have wealth an prosperity, but don't you worry you to have the opportunity to make your self better instead of sitting at the status quo! Do not attack me for wanting to make money and provide the best life for my self and my children and any one else I can.
I am not saying that your complaints have no place. You have some genuine concerns but most of them just show your extreme prejudice against the working class.
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