NOPE it will be a while the North Pole D.O.T. has put SANTA CLAUSE TRANSPORTATION out of service they have unsatisfactory equipment violations / hours of service violations/ all the raindeer were overloaded /and no current inspection stickers on any of the fleet / there were no ELOG on board /no data ports/ no recipts or toll tickets to corespond time and place of equipment /no DOT approved sleeper birth for driver / no safety equipment on board flares or tri angles /no snowchains/cables / only one red light found on entire vehicle and it was on the wrong end /no brake/clearance lights /no load securement devices / no tarp over load / no seat belts / operator had no current D.O.T. HEALTH CARD / OPERATORS NECK WAS OVER 19 INCHES must go for sleep apnea testing ! AND JUST THINK WHAT THEY PUT YOUR LOCAL TRUCKING CO. THRU !!!! We are just at the very beginning of freight flow slowing down due to over regulation of the transportation industry
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Sad but so true...
Everybody in the trucking business has seen more stupidity recently than ever before.
And the collective opinion is that it is only going to get worse.
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REALLY interesting YouTube video that I saw this morning explained a lot of the WHY about Amazon still receives their chinese goods. Their stuff is being moved on the smaller container ships and are coming to smaller ports that aren't like CommieFornia. These smaller ships don't have to be serviced by deep water ports. The truckers are moving the freight PLUS Amazon has their own tractor fleet to haul container trailers to their warehouses - rather than sitting on the dock.
The presentation also discussed their
AMAZON AIR (aka:
Prime Air) fleet. This is a NO BS freight hauling machine! Twelve additional 767-300 converted cargo aircraft, increasing their fleet to
over 80 aircraft as part of Amazon’s dedicated air cargo network back in June of 2020. They purchased 11 more in a contract released on January 2021. I imagine it hasn't gotten any smaller since then either!