Adam DeGroot

“We’re fortunate in being Americans. At least we don’t step on the underdog. I wonder if that’s because there are no ‘Americans’ — only a stew of immigrants; or if it’s because the earth from which we exist has been so kind to us and our forefathers; or if it’s because the ‘American’ is the offspring of the logical European who hated oppression and loved freedom beyond life? Those great mountains and tall timber; the cool deep lakes and broad rivers; the green valleys and white farmhouses; the air, the sea and wind; the plains and great cities; the smell of living — all must be the cause of it. … “And yet, with all that, we can’t get away from the rest. … For each of us who wants to live in happiness and give happiness, there’s another different sort of person wanting to take it away. Those people always manage to have their say, and Mars is always close at hand. We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace. Stick our noses in the affairs of the world. Learn politics as well as killing. Make the world accept peace whether they damn well like it or not. Here is the dove, and here is the bayonet. … “If I ever have a son, I don’t want him to go through this again, but I want him powerful enough that no one will be fool enough to touch him. He and America should be strong as hell and kind as Christ. That’s the only insurance until human nature becomes a tangible thing that can be adjusted and made workable.” Letter of LT Thomas Meehan III, CO, E Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division, to his wife, May 1944. KIA 6 JUNE 1944

“It’s my honor to announce that the true pope is working with us from Avignon”

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

@FreightAlley @indietrucker You able to break them out as separate charts?

@adegroot88 @indietrucker Yes…

Tender rejection levels hit new cycle high of 16.53%. This past week was tighter than Roadcheck, a forewarning to shippers for the 2H. Capacity is increasingly hard to find and shippers have to pay up or risk having freight left on the dock.

I think we need to build this. I designed this below image, representing Lewis and Clark on the Mississippi in the style of Argonath. At $1 Billion or more, I think it can be done.

Naming your company AI slop backwards is crazy

the tweet has existed long before twitter

Compute will be the worlds largest commodity

@FreightAlley Panic certainly does sell. Looking forward to it being sorted out with new legal precedents in 24-48 months 😆 One positive from this will be a new sudden frontier of logistics tech that finds new ways to identify 'safe carriers'. I expect a lot of new names to pop up.

@adegroot88 There is a ton of panic now… i suspect we will continue to see more of these things in coming weeks/months as everyone sorts out the meaning and risks

A mid-market broker told us that one of their largest shippers is considering eliminating its entire traffic department and outsourcing it to managed transportation in light of the SCOTUS ruling.

@FreightAlley ChatGPT nailed it: "That’s probably the vibe: half labor economics, half freight-market nihilism, with lots of strangely specific observations about truck stops, turnover, and incentives."

The Odd Lots discussion on this issue will be absolutely explosive.

He’s typing in a search bar, quick show him the search option he’s looking for. Perfect. He typed the next letter that is also the next letter in the option we just showed him so take that option away and show him an option that doesn’t match at all

@qui_est_J_Galt Imagining a fleet of them driving through pallets so they pickup the entire load at the same time. Of course that requires a perfectly clean environment but seems technically possible!

@adegroot88 That is not going to load or unload in 5 minutes, it's much much much too slow.

Actual tech that can eliminate detention. Imagine 40 of these things driving into a loaded trailer, lifting and unloading it in <5 minutes. You'd still probably wait an hour for a BOL but damn!

@FreightAlley Been wondering why WNC has been stuck in the mud lately, very informative!

Max Fuller, founder of US Xpress and "dad", tells us why Wabash Trailers is the most bearish public company affiliated with trucking.

@PeterLBrandt Then my second guess is Anacott Steel 😂

@adegroot88 Yes, but ONLY after I have already established my position

This chart is the current apple of my eye Ask AI what the market is First to get it right gets a nod

@StephenRuhe The worst warehouse job of the future will be the backup lumper that will have to break pallets down by hand 😂

@adegroot88 Serious question... what happens when one of those things hits the random warehouse pebble and locks up?

@FreightAlley I initially read this as 'CH Robinson CEO believes 20-30% of his brokers could be eliminated' and thought to myself.... 'didn't he do that already?'

CH Robinson's CEO believes that 20-30% of brokers could be eliminated by the SCOTUS decision

@The_AllStar21 @supertrucker No doubt. ''considerable issues to work out" is a good description of the status quo 😂

@adegroot88 @supertrucker I've seen these in person. Coming soon but still have considerable issues to work out. They are great with a perfectly cubed pallet but run into issues when dealing with real life pallet builds. AMRs/AGVs are here and work now.