Murphy Siding I keep reading that there is a glut of trucks and that freight rates are dropping because of it. On what planet is that happening? We are currently waiting for materials from mills and manufacturers that can't get trucks under them. Those shippers are in VA, OH, IL, MO, KS, OK,TX,LA, MT, ID, WA, and Canada.
I keep reading that there is a glut of trucks and that freight rates are dropping because of it. On what planet is that happening? We are currently waiting for materials from mills and manufacturers that can't get trucks under them. Those shippers are in VA, OH, IL, MO, KS, OK,TX,LA, MT, ID, WA, and Canada.
I've been wondering about that too. Rates are still sky high, and I broker off my excess freight.. it has been slow going.. even astronomical rates don't fetch a truck alot of the time. What planet indeed.
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jeffhergert greyhounds Backshop All we need is a low cost way for meat processors in Iowa to get their goods to Chicago cheaply and everything will be just fine... That would help. Sorry, currently we have too much business that's clogging up the railroad. Try again in a few months. Jeff
greyhounds Backshop All we need is a low cost way for meat processors in Iowa to get their goods to Chicago cheaply and everything will be just fine... That would help.
Backshop All we need is a low cost way for meat processors in Iowa to get their goods to Chicago cheaply and everything will be just fine...
That would help.
Sorry, currently we have too much business that's clogging up the railroad. Try again in a few months.
Jeff
When the backlog of ships gets worked off on the West Coast - there will likely be a month or more of virtually NO SHIPS arriving the West Coast from SE Asia with the Chinese lock downs account Covid.
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Get ready for the ports to be backed up to hell and beyond again. Shanghai has over 600 container ships at anchor right now waiting for the lock down to be lifted from there.
BackshopAll we need is a low cost way for meat processors in Iowa to get their goods to Chicago cheaply and everything will be just fine...
Flintlock76 Can't help you on this one boys, my crystal ball fell of the table and shattered into a hundred pieces. They don't make anything like they used to.
Can't help you on this one boys, my crystal ball fell of the table and shattered into a hundred pieces.
They don't make anything like they used to.
Better order a new one from China, put some more freight on the rails!
Our traffic always seems to slow down in late spring and early summer, before picking up again in late summer and increasing into the winter. And it's not just grain, it's everything.
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Can't help you on this one boys, my crystal ball fell off the table and shattered into a hundred pieces.
Nahhh.. No freight recession.. What's happening right now is the calm before the next storm comes 3rd QTR..
The lockdown in Shanghai is not new - going on four weeks - since April 1. The municipal authorities are likely to be replaced because of failures to plan well for food distribution.
New lockdowns in Shanghai and other areas.
China starts mass-testing, local lockdowns in Beijing as Shanghai's COVID woes spread despite drastic measures - CBS News
BaltACD The real driver for freight slow downs in the near future. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/28/china-is-shutting-down-shanghai-in-two-phases.html
The real driver for freight slow downs in the near future.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/28/china-is-shutting-down-shanghai-in-two-phases.html
Old news (March 28).
I hear from residents that the lockdowns will be lifted by mid-May at latest.
All we need is a low cost way for meat processors in Iowa to get their goods to Chicago cheaply and everything will be just fine...
I was thinking something along these lines last week while I was out shopping, and noticed full shelves where chronic shortages existed even before the pandemic.
What I noticed most about these full shelves was their new prices. Could it be that consumers are shunning the usury and pushing back? And the thought occurred to me that if this was the case, then our over-burdended freightways might soon be in for a little relief?
Nothing like reduced demand to correct an overly optimistic marketplace.
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If the demand for trucking is down the demand for rail service is also down.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bank-of-america-is-sounding-the-alarm-on-collapsing-freight-demand?j=142044&sfmc_sub=50660216&l=256_HTML&u=2797158&mid=514011755&jb=13008&utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FW_Daily_4_26_22&utm_term=Read+More&utm_id=142044&sfmc_id=50660216
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