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People keep asking me “What are you on?” What am I on? I’m on an air mattress at the Econolodge. I’m on 3% battery with no service. I’m on 5 hours of sleep, eating Cracker Barrel for breakfast. What are YOU on?

Imagine hitting this in a Ford Raptor and hear it disassemble with the Lego sfx

teachers say we dont read enough wtf we be doing on our fone

Disintegrated this dude just because

you mad weird for not letting me merge

More like Humour Simpson. That guy's funny. Also more like Humour Griffin (Peter Griffin)

you can buy a gun on papa john’s secret menu

@HySpDcHiKnFeeD2 Damn. You really cracked the code here. You finally figured it out.

With recent Supreme Court ruling.. Just an observation from a guy who knows some things, but definitely doesn’t know a lot of things, but wants to learn things. (Disclaimer: 22 year company driver in various aspects of trucking) And I’m just thinking out loud. Let’s say I buy a truck and trailer, get my own authority. So I’m new, no history. Why can’t I just skip this whole broker shit and contact a local company that moves product directly? We negotiate what they need and what I can/can’t do. No/maybe? So let’s get tech involved. Why can’t there be just a universal website (or several due to open market) where ABC Inc can post their loads and “negotiate” (or no negotiation) with a trucker direct? Why does ABC inc have to contact a guy, pay them a fee, to find someone? This all just seems unnecessary to me.

Made the finals with Boobie Gibson as the 2nd option.

the whole neigjborhood is outside in the street crazy yelling because guy across the street managed to flush a basketball down the toilet.

Did you know he was a spook who belonged to intelligence?

if you have $800 to spend on a chair i'm begging you to buy anything else besides a fake eames

@Jmarmstrong88 @supertrucker @maybedanielleee @SearchCarriers Josh I am very confused here. If you are such an expert on heavy haul brokerage why are you having issues with falling for midwit tier carrier scams? Looks like your load board is just shit anyone can bid on Fr8star/Veritread.

Never heard of them. We use My Carrier Packet and have a TMS software that we dispatch through that has access to it. We are 99.9% heavy haul. All my clients own excavation, mining, asphalt, electrical, oil and gas companies. The scammers invaded our territory last, after destroying Van & Reefers. We don’t cold call or have load lists that get email blasted. We bid on jobs directly, sponsor heavy equipment auctions, and are members of associations for equipment dealers, excavation and paving contractors etc. We actually do business the right way because we aren’t dumb enough to realize that our livelihoods are built around the truckers we hire. TQL and CH Robinson are bottom feeding retards who don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. They couldn’t exist ten minutes in my world, handling super loads, arranging highway patrol escorts, route surveys, and wining and dining CEOs in hopes of getting my foot in the door to get table scraps. They deserve everything that’s coming to them.

I wish I could grab a mic and infiltrate this oral argument for 15 seconds. We have a plethora of tools to vet motor carriers. Brokers pay thousands of dollars per month for these tools. THE DATA IS THERE.

I’ve said this for years. You really wanna keep your town weird? Go to Kankakee IL. Go to Steubenville OH. Go to Blythe CA. See how weird it can get. Night of the living dead type environments.

@johnkonrad @FreightAlley legitimately not sure if you’re actually this dumb or trying to sell something. in either case I wish you the best of luck!

This is potentially the biggest Iran story nobody is talking about: the global insurance market may be heading toward a systemic crisis. Here’s why… Most people don’t realize London isn’t just a financial center it’s THE center of global insurance. Lloyd’s underwrites ~40% of the world’s marine cargo. Ship sinks, port gets bombed, canal gets blocked the bill lands in London. This is why the UK punches above its weight. Not the Royal Navy. Not diplomacy. Insurance. Control insurance, control trade. And London doesn’t just control the 90% of global trade that moves by sea. Lloyd’s and the London market are major insurers of almost everything skyscrapers, factories, ports, satellites, entire supply chains. You can’t participate in public markets or raise large amounts of capital without insurance. Now, the normal playbook for war risk is repricing, not cancellation. Canceling coverage entirely is a massive escalation in underwriting posture. It signals something beyond risk, it signals uncertainty so deep the underwriter can’t even price it. The question everyone should be asking: why? Why not just jack up premiums and make a fortune off the crisis like they did in the Black Sea off Ukraine? To answer that, you have to understand WHY London has maintained a stranglehold on global insurance while losing nearly submarket related to ships. The answer: better intelligence. It is no coincidence that MI6 headquarters sits directly across the Thames from the @IMOHQ, the world’s maritime regulator & a short distance from Lloyd’s itself. I have no proof of a direct pipeline, but it has long been speculated in the industry that intelligence flows from MI6 to Lloyd’s. Having the best intel in the world would be the single greatest competitive advantage any insurer could possess: the ability to price risk that competitors can only guess at. Here’s the problem: the majority of MI6’s intel doesn’t come from its own agents. It comes from Five Eyes the alliance comprising the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. And within 5Eyes, the dominant partner is obvious. The CIA, NSA, NRO, etc generate the lion’s share of intel. So if Lloyd’s pricing advantage flows from MI6, and MI6’s best intelligence flows from the US… what happens when that data pipeline gets throttled? All indications are that @Keir_Starmer was blindsided by the size and scope of the US/Israel strikes on Iran this weekend. That alone tells you something about the current state of transatlantic intelligence sharing. And we know there has been serious anger in Washington over the UK’s decision to sell Diego Garcia, home to America’s most strategically important base in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius. It is not a huge leap to conclude that the submarine cables linking Langley to London have gone dark, or at minimum have been significantly throttled. What this means for UK national security is a question for the Brits. But what it means for EVERY company globally that’s insured through the London market has massive implications for the entire financial system. Because most large insurers worldwide don’t do independent intelligence work. They index off Lloyd’s rates. If you’re insuring a skyscraper in Tokyo, a semiconductor fab in Taiwan, or a port in Argentina you get a Lloyd’s quote, then shop that price around. Other insurers see Lloyd’s number and assume the diligence was done. They price accordingly. This means if London is suddenly flying blind it’s not just Lloyd’s policyholders at risk. It’s the entire global reinsurance chain. The cancellation of war risk coverage on ships isn’t the crisis. It’s the canary. If this hypothesis is correct, we could be looking at a systemic repricing event across global insurance markets…. the kind of cascading uncertainty that defined 2008 and COVID. Watch Lloyd’s. Watch reinsurance spreads. What Five Eyes. That’s where this story, and possibly Wall Street, breaks. CC @BillAckman

ok my bad

@FreightAlley Craig I just got off the phone with two WSJ journalists who were recently in a room with you. They said you were “farting the entire time and seemed to enjoy the smell ”. Do you care to comment?

When I started FreightWaves, I was told by long-term industry editors that no one cares about daily news on the freight market or the economy. Probably the most incredible rebuttal: The long-time editor at the WSJ Logistics Report told me that he didn't think trucking rates were all that volatile.

@devirtutibus @aaron_renn Not really an accurate comp. Ur looking at population within city limits. Columbus annexed all the surrounding suburbs and townships. Look at metro area population vs Cincy or CLE’s. It’s not a competition but your analysis is flawed.

@aaron_renn So Columbus is a good example too. I was shocked that it is the population of Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh combined. Capital city plus big university. Equals growth.

"Nashville & Austin rocketed out of obscurity w/o a domestic airline hub, without intl flights, w/o decent public transport, w/o Amtrak service, w/o walkable neighborhoods, without major Fortune 500s already HQ'd there - w/o anything conventional wisdom told us was necessary."

@atutruckers @TMSuccessful @ultramaga7219 lol

@TMSuccessful @ultramaga7219 Miranda they probably have access to your carrier account too. Reset everything and add 2FA.

Something is up with the Highway onboarding system. As of late, I have been receiving random requests saying that a broker wants to onboard my company. Each time it's a broker that I have never heard of before, never talked to before, and never even saw a load posted by them before. What gives.

@TMSuccessful Someone is attempting to book loads using your MC and hoping that you’ll complete the set up (or are already are set up with that broker).

On principle I don’t really fw Hoboken cause it’s way too frat-y but my god can those rat faced dagos make a mutz sandwich