Interesting story I heard today relating to shipping/logistics woes facing our country.

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As I’ve stated before, I own a small to medium sized trucking company. Most of our loads come from load boards as we are not big enough to secure dedicated lanes with companies like Walmart, Purdue, Aldis, Target etc.
One of the brokers we work with out of Carnegie, PA (large) called me about a dedicated lane for Bridgestone tires from Allentown, main distribution center to Nashville. Apparently the LARGE carrier that has the contract is in breach of contract as they cannot find enough drivers. My DOT consultant also called me asking if I’d be interested in buying a business with 20-30 trucks in PA. I asked why the owner was selling and he said he cant find anyone to drive his trucks and payments, overhead, insurance are killing him. More to come.

As I’ve stated before, I own a small to medium sized trucking company. Most of our loads come from load boards as we are not big enough to secure dedicated lanes with companies like Walmart, Purdue, Aldis, Target etc. One of the brokers we work with out of Carnegie, PA (large) called me about a dedicated lane for Bridgestone tires from Allentown, main distribution center to Nashville. Apparently the LARGE carrier that has the contract is in breach of contract as they cannot find enough drivers. My DOT consultant also called me asking if I’d be interested in buying a business with 20-30 trucks in PA. I asked why the owner was selling and he said he cant find anyone to drive his trucks and payments, overhead, insurance are killing him. More to come.

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[–] • 3 pts

Vaccines took out a lot of operators. They are now dead or disabled. Not quickly replaced.

It's the same for the airlines, even as they are trying to downplay it. Dead pilots in high numbers. Crippled pilots in even higher numbers.

It amounts to a shortage of healthy qualified pilots, at any price.

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Do you have first hand knowledge? Like how do you know that? If true then the shot has killed way more than 11k. They can't all just be truck drivers and pilots in that number. Someone is hiding the numbers.