Can you explain this to me like the retard I am?
OP is claiming LTL Trucking rates are dropping. Below the cost of fuel and operation.
Doesn't the market (the LTL providers) set that through their pricing? If Diesel is $6.30 a gallon as it is here in So Cal, that cost has to be recuperated.
Also Being a retard, I wanted to go out and get a license. I may be stupid but I can drive a truck.
I hope you don’t mind me chiming in. My brother retired a couple of years ago, he was a CDL instructor for one of the large truck driving schools. He stays in touch with people that are in the trucking industry, trucking company owners, logistics specialist and truck drivers. He tells me that the trucking unions and big logistics companies are in lockstep with the administration/government. There is a shortage of electronic parts for big rigs.
I sincerely appreciate the feedback. If often wondered if larger shippers and carriers were being supplemented to suppress rates to drive out smaller carriers. Start limiting parts for older trucks while newere trucks and trailers go to huge companies to accelerate the driving out of small carriers. Theses are theories of course but would certainly line up with what you are saying
Well, just going by what they did in the past, Walmart took over. Mom and pop stores closed, small grocery stores had to close when Walmart came to town. Amazon replaced brick and mortar stores. Big unions represent the union bosses not union workers. Big unions are in bed with the government. It’s no accident that there is a chip shortage. Everything is by design to hurt the independent and small businesses.
Your brother is 100% correct.
Can you explain this to me like the retard I am?
tl;dr
suppose you read a lot of news from a lot of different conflicting sources
this news cites a lot of numbers what should we believe is true among all this noise?
you look at only the largest and smallest numbers but from the most 'official' sources.
You have a hunch that people have a psychological quirk.
This quirk effects 'how big' a lie is, while still being believable
You might expect theres no rule to predict number 5.
But it turns out, generally, there is.
You know the myth of the "big lie"? That if people hear a big enough lie often enough they believe it?
Well it turns out, on average, that most liars have a psychological 'tick', or rule, that limits how big or small the lie can be.
And this can be formulate into a number, thats roughly equal to 8.55, or in some cases, the (number * 8.55)0.5
This covers large mis-estimates and large lies.
It shouldn't work, but it does.
So for example, it is said that 6 million jewish people died in the holocaust. But using this rule, it actually comes out to roughly 700,000. Which is within the ballpark of modern estimates.
But this rule doesn't just work for the holocaust. It also works for the estimates of human numbers who survived the toba-eruption genetic bottleneck, which used to be estimated at 10-12k survivors, but was then revised to 40 breeding pairs. Incidentally if you take 13k, divide by 8.55, and then get the square root, you get what? 38.99 and some change.
This, it turns out, works on a bunch of different estimates, successfully, including some estimates I made of fuel price spikes.
So anyway, I took some old estimates I had, based on other models, of a u.s. economic/political/military crisis occuring in 9-18 months and put it through this simple system. And out popped the 32-60+ day timeline. This was such an unbelievable estimate, even I found fault with it, and dismissed it at the time.
Its been two weeks (give or take a few days) since then, and since then I've seen numerous indicators, (including a certain asian nations backlog of ships being a precursor to a taiwan invasion) that the model is effective.
But then we also have to keep in mind that poal, like many other 'alt' places on line, besides being OSI chatter aggregators, are also platforms to influence and radicalize people, so everything any one of us believe, could be an entirely synthetic opinion that was essentially pushed on us without our awareness.
Which is why I don't commit to positions, I just post opinions.
If Diesel is $6.30 a gallon as it is here in So Cal,
Diesel delivery trucks, over inclines, average 3 miles to the gallon.
They likely can't deliver without losing money.
The only load we found yesterday out of salt lake required a 200 mile deadhead to NV and the a 700 mile haul into TX It was paying $1400. This would have taken 2 days based in timing of pickup and delivery windows. I cannot operate at a profit in $700 a day to the truck. This was the BEST load we could find mind you!
My long-tail models put the trucking collapse at six months out, between the original 9-18 timeline.
If what you're saying is accurate, a revised estimate with the new model, puts the trucking collapse/crisis peak at 21-22 days, give or take a few hours. This aligns with the 32 day lower-bound estimate of a u.s. crisis/collapse.
Hypothetically if nation xyz (a certain asian nation that shall not be named), wanted to perform an invasion of taiwan, they'd need america grid locked with riots or economic disorder, so we wouldn't have the resources to respond.
Meaning the trucking collapse would have to come first. That puts a new, tighter lowerbound on events. and likely, other crises, such as railyard and railline sabotage by a fifth column, which are likely in-bound. These events, multiple crisis, will have to happen close together so foreign adversaries can affect the maximum amount of pressure possible on the u.s.
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