... and here comes the food shortages I said would happen
- Thread starter B00Mer
- Start date
If that is how you want to live
But YOU might get tired of pierogies after the 180th day :lol:
Yet you are carrying food products north and south . Tell me when you can’t get anything .
I'm having a hard time finding loads south.. but my contract supplies Costco and Lawblaws..
However, I am seeing drivers parking their trucks because of the rates, I used to get $3600 USD, now I'm getting $3400 CAD southbound..
Many O/O won't run for those price and have parked their rigs.
I run, because things with get better, and the broker will remember me for not quitting. Still making $2400 CAD for the trip vs $3400 CAD
But you probably save three hundred or more per trip . That does not make up the shortfall but does lessen it .
Ive lost 50% of my revenue per trip south, a few hundred isn't going to replace a few thousand..
$3600 USD is to Canadian is $5,062.21 CAD
Now they are paying only $3400 CAD.
A shortfall of $1600 X 3 trips $5400 lost.
Fuel savings maybe $1000 in the month
Net loss $4400, my truck payments are $3535 per month on this truck, oil change and filters $525, insurance, trailer rental, and so on..
I'm dam near working for free right now.
Gotta LOVE perogies!
Lotsa butter, bacon bits and croutons.
Which a lot of folk don't seem to understand when they cut in front of us in traffic..
That used to be a pickup truck.
Good God...
I'll wager that you'll be the first called when the rates normalize again.
Sorry for the short term pain, but my hat's off to you for making a prudent, long range business decision.
It ain't meat.
So similar to processed meat.
Just saying if you don't want to eat real meat beyond meat seems to the trick.
For me....it's real fresh meat all the way.
My feelings wont get hurt if others feel differently.
No way really, now the news is reporting food shortages
U.S. Could Be Weeks From Meat Shortages With Shutdowns Spreading
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u...hortages-with-shutdowns-spreading/ar-BB139I9V
U.S. Could Be Weeks From Meat Shortages With Shutdowns Spreading
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u...hortages-with-shutdowns-spreading/ar-BB139I9V
End the lockdown protests are going to get louder with BBQ season in full swing.
Market prices are dropping with less demand and feedlots filling up. Butcher cows are down to $0.60/lb.
Market prices are dropping with less demand and feedlots filling up. Butcher cows are down to $0.60/lb.
The meat plants are closed because employees are infected with COVID-19..
Do you want that in your BBQ meat?
Do you think people will be thinking or paying attention to that when a burger/steak craving hit?
I have found that most people have no idea what it is like to be an entrepreneur and what risks people take to be one Boomer! The lack of knowledge is quite disturbing because, as you know, "business people are rich and need to pay their fair share" right? They have no idea of the costs involved; the risks one takes to operate a business be it a trucker (singular) a trucking company (plural) or a local store selling merchandise. It's appalling that basic business economics aren't taught in any of our educational institutions or if they are, they're doing a p. poor job of it.
Just sayin....