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10-06-2018, 06:54 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Between Pickles Gap and Toad Suck, AR
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Move to the other lane, America
North American Class 8 semi-truck orders hit 42,300 in September, up 92 percent from a year ago.
Yee Haaa! More of 'em, More of 'us', More highway construction.
Fun, Fun, Fun.
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10-06-2018, 07:18 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2014
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Economy booming got to move that freight !!
Russell
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10-06-2018, 07:23 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Between Pickles Gap and Toad Suck, AR
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Yep!
Lord, please make them pour asphalt over all that bumpy concrete, amen!
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"Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man" Herbert Hoover
"American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God"Lewis Grizzard
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10-06-2018, 07:27 AM
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Georgia Rally Coordinator
Join Date: Jun 2015
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Time for the RRs to step up to the plate again and carry more truck trailers like they use to.  Later RJD
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10-06-2018, 08:06 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Jonesborough
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but where are they going to find drivers, i work for a large trucking company and we struggle to find drivers, as the old folks retire the young people don't want to drive a truck they seem to want to work with a computer in front of them.
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10-06-2018, 08:09 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Between Pickles Gap and Toad Suck, AR
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Yep.
Same with RV transport drivers. Thousands upon Thousands of trailers sitting on Transport company lots in Northern Indiana. Permanent "NOW HIRING" signs everywhere.
Kids are told "you ought to go to college". Then they go, get a Psychology or English degree, and make nothing. Meanwhile, tradesmen are living in big houses because there are so few of them.
World is skewed.
But somebody is living high, buying large, and needing shipments!
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"Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man" Herbert Hoover
"American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God"Lewis Grizzard
FROG AR-0019-242
2016 GMC Denali 3500Dually--2017 CC 36CKTS
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10-06-2018, 08:41 AM
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Denver To Yuma In 90 Days
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Yuma, Arizona
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CAT-RN
Economy booming got to move that freight !!
Russell
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You left off the last part of that sentence...
Got to move that freight... off of those big ships from China!
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10-06-2018, 08:51 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Virginia
Posts: 9,887
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnD10
You left off the last part of that sentence...
Got to move that freight... off of those big ships from China!
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10-06-2018, 08:58 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2013
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BandJCarm
Yep!
Lord, please make them pour asphalt over all that bumpy concrete, amen!
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X25!!! We had smoother roads going to Alaska this year than you have on I-10 or I80! 
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10-06-2018, 12:51 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Rio Hondo, TX
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My nephews rig hit a 1,000,000 miles before they retired it. It didn't have a bunch of bells and whistles, but he loved driving it. American made Peterbilt.
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10-06-2018, 04:19 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Space Coast of Florida
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I always tell my grandchildren when traveling on the interstate that the long lines of semis is a sign of America working..
Also ask them to tell me one thing they own or eat that did not arrive by truck...
Pic of a recent trip on I-75 just south of Chattanooga...
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10-06-2018, 04:23 PM
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Chris and Cecil
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Fleahop, Alabama
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[QUOTE=BandJCarm
Kids are told "you ought to go to college". Then they go, get a Psychology or English degree, and make nothing.
Been saying that for YEARS!! Who is gonna plumb and wire houses? Or lay block and brick? Here in our area they are FINALLY encouraging trade schools.
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10-06-2018, 05:49 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Austin,TX
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BandJCarm
Yep.
Same with RV transport drivers. Thousands upon Thousands of trailers sitting on Transport company lots in Northern Indiana. Permanent "NOW HIRING" signs everywhere.
Kids are told "you ought to go to college". Then they go, get a Psychology or English degree, and make nothing. Meanwhile, tradesmen are living in big houses because there are so few of them.
World is skewed.
But somebody is living high, buying large, and needing shipments!
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I understand what you're trying to say BUT I have one of those Psychology degrees and make 6 figures. I doubt I'd be doing as well without my degree.
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10-06-2018, 06:23 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Between Pickles Gap and Toad Suck, AR
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Loraura
I understand what you're trying to say BUT I have one of those Psychology degrees and make 6 figures. I doubt I'd be doing as well without my degree.
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Can I borrow some money?? LOL
MY point is that EVERYONE is told "go to college". You were a good candidate. Not many are. Meanwhile, you AND I are having trouble getting our cars, houses, RV's worked on or built or transported, our wells drilled, etc. Also, unless you have an advanced degree and a hung shingle, I'd wonder what you do to make that kind of money, with that degree. Not that it's any of my business, which it's not.
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"American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God"Lewis Grizzard
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10-06-2018, 06:25 PM
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Senior Member
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And we could argue all day how to increase jobs. However, I'd argue that adding jobs is not our problem...........
In September 2018, the unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent. It was 3.8 percent in May, the lowest rate since April 2000.
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"Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man" Herbert Hoover
"American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God"Lewis Grizzard
FROG AR-0019-242
2016 GMC Denali 3500Dually--2017 CC 36CKTS
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10-06-2018, 06:33 PM
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Western Massachusetts
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What happen to keeping politics off this site site leaders. Close this thread down please.
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10-06-2018, 06:38 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Between Pickles Gap and Toad Suck, AR
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????
Is discussing how to train youth political? Is everything that has dissenters political??
Just a belief I've never understood.........worry over nothing.
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"Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man" Herbert Hoover
"American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God"Lewis Grizzard
FROG AR-0019-242
2016 GMC Denali 3500Dually--2017 CC 36CKTS
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10-06-2018, 06:43 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Apollo, PA
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Years ago, (when working in a stainless steel finishing plant), I would notice an increase in rail traffic when the economy was doing well.
The wages will go up. Supply and demand.
Can’t say much more without getting political. Not needed on this forum.
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10-06-2018, 07:42 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
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The topic WAS that they are building/selling more Semi Trucks, which impacts RV'ing. But it always tickles me that some folks shy away from anything that might "offend" them..whether it's a political discussion, someone walking through their campsite, a few fireworks on the 4th, or a million other things.
Sorry I brought it up to start with. This is a great site, but I enjoy sites where opinions can be voiced, and discussed. I learn a lot that way.
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"Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man" Herbert Hoover
"American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God"Lewis Grizzard
FROG AR-0019-242
2016 GMC Denali 3500Dually--2017 CC 36CKTS
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10-06-2018, 08:59 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Northeast Louisiana
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BandJCarm
And we could argue all day how to increase jobs. However, I'd argue that adding jobs is not our problem...........
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This is EXACTLY why we have the following guideline.
General discussions of politics, general government policies, weaponry, gun rights and religion are not allowed in ANY areas of the forum. Discussions about current or pending legislation or regulations, weapons and religion that directly pertain to RVing are acceptable but will be closed or removed if they wander off topic or become disruptive.
We encourage "discussions" that are beneficial to the members, but have to stop things as in your own words that are or will become "arguments" ....which is what has happened in this thread.
The site team is doing a clean up of these posts (or posts that quote them) which are against the above guideline.
There are plenty of other places to "argue" these topics besides FRF.
This thread is closed.
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