Jon Lisicki 🇺🇸
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Jon Lisicki 🇺🇸
@jon_lisicki
President - Specialized waste solutions
San Diego, CA Katılım Ocak 2016
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That’s because brokers operate in the exception space on structured (frankly, to no fault of their own ) financially motivated to maximize margin which equates to bending the rules, the problem is it’s not 40% of the time it’s more there’s no way we only have 40% bad capacity in the industry. It’s higher than that.
Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️@FreightAlley
Learned this week that: In recent months, 40% of the loads that Highway recommends to decline are overridden by floor brokers. I’m not sure that many floor brokers have the operating discipline to avoid the riskiest carriers.
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@adamlwingfield I have been quoting folks and they immediately take the rates with what I thought were bold. My brain is so fixated on what the last few yrs have been like. So we’re here I guess.
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The LMI now reflects rate increases across the trucking market. It’s the carrier’s market now for the foreseeable future.
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
US freight costs are surging: The LMI transportation prices index rose +5.6 points in April, to 95.0, the highest since the April 2018 peak of 96.0 points and the 3rd-highest since the index was launched in 2016. The Logistics Managers' Index, or LMI, is a monthly survey of over 100 US supply chain executives that tracks the expansion or contraction of the US logistics industry across 8 key metrics, including inventory, warehousing, and transportation costs and capacity. A transportation prices reading above 50 indicates that freight costs are rising, while a reading below 50 indicates a decline. The LMI transportation prices index has surged +40.8 points, or +75%, since September 2025. The increase in freight costs comes at a time when inflation is already rising to a 3-year high. Inflationary pressures in transportation are intensifying.
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I appreciate you sharing. I too have gone through the same. Only my valleys started in ~2023. I had 5 trucks repossessed in 2025 with ~6 payments left for each unit. One truck was repo’ed while our driver was delivering to our customers customer. Imagine me having to explain our situation to our customer and our customers customer. Embarrassing.
I had a DOT field audit at our terminal and the repo agents showed in the middle of the audit and drive off with the trucks after they were stickered.
Went from ~$600k gross sales/mo to ~$67k in ~45 day span. Not bc of any performance related issues.
Have had landlords file unlawful detainers.
You name it.
Considered filing BK but there’s too much, much much of things going on to stop.
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Small fleet owner here. The struggle has been very real these last 2 years and none stronger than 2025. It reminded me of my youth on the family farm in the 80s. Dad got the new tractor he bought 2 years prior repossessed when the market shifted. This was before the government gave you a kick back if you lost money in farming mind you.
The lesson learned for me was never give up. I searched my soul in the worst moments of last year. My wife and I arguing about money. Not paying ourselves. Working for nothing several months in a row. All of our savings completely gone by the fall of 25. I haven't been this cash strapped since I was a young man out of High School. We thought real hard about giving up, but Hell Bent Xpress isn't a catchy name. Its an absolute dedication to keep pushing on no matter how hard or difficult the situation becomes.
This new environment we find ourselves in means serious change for the transportation industry, that has always operated on trust.
We are becoming a very low trust society, therefore we must adapt procedures and tactics. Become more open and honest with sharing who we are and how we accomplish the mission. It can't be talk and flashy websites. It has be verifiable transparency.
We are all fine putting a camera on the driver but nobody wants to put a camera on the person in the office who keeps the business compliant. I look forward to proving we have always tried to do it by the book. Have we messed things up in the past, sure. I had my business all jacked up that first year on my own. Then I convinced my wife to come aboard and she dove head first into the compliance pool.
We aren't perfect but we will get better to further prove we can be trusted in today's trucking landscape. No place to hide in the shadows if we all shine a light on it.
This is how the small trucking companies and brokerages survive, change how we do things. Less trust, more visibility for customers.
With all that said, value added means it will cost. Real professional drivers cost money. Quality equipment to ensure safety also costs. You want to ensure your business thrives, then lets make sure we both can. I'm willing to provide it, if you're willing to pay for it.
God bless you all that made it this far. 🙏
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@FreightAlley now to the 1980 motor carrier act. The $5m shouldn't be that expensive bc there's no auto liability, right or no? The auto liability plus the $5m umbrella is what kills.
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Update from an insurance executive:
A broker's insurance renewal quote got pulled overnight; new quote is 3.5x the given last week, nothing else is changing. Clean, well funded shop.
$5m limit.
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@FreightAlley Nah man - direct sales will always have a place in this world to those who try.
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@FreightAlley I’ve been audited by DOT a lot more than once. I spoke with a gal who manages the safety entrant program. A few years there was only TWO people at dot managing the whole program across the country.
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Call up the FMCSA and ask for a compliance audit
Blythe (Brumleve) Milligan@blythebrum
I don't want to sound like a dummy but how does a carrier get a safety rating? can they volunteer for it? are there companies that can do it for them? my understanding was the safety "rating" was only for the bad ones. so how do the good ones prove they're, in fact, good?
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I'm driving the 55mph speed limit. this is a first for me.
Thanks fuel prices, now trucking sucks.
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Yes that’s my take too — no depth/convo skills. The only fans things is disgusting should be banned. Far from govt regulation but a 13 yr old boy or a 17 yr old girl should be being paying (where are they getting the $? That’s rhetorical and what sickos are paying for this behavior). It’s sick.
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It looks healthier on the surface:
Fewer teens drinking.
Fewer getting into real trouble.
But look closer.
Traditional social norms didn’t vanish — they retreated into a sick online world.
Kids aren’t more mature.
They’re just less embodied.
Less real-world friction.
Less unsupervised risk.
Less rejection and recovery.
Less courage forged in embarrassment.
We traded flesh-and-blood initiation for digital pacification.
The stats improved.
The humans didn’t.
John LeFevre@JohnLeFevre
Skipping drinks with colleagues, friends, and women in your 20s & 30s to “protect your health” is quietly sabotaging your career, your social circle, and your dating life. Learn to drink responsibly. A few drinks build bonds that kale smoothies never will.
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@FreightAlley I will help with w/e behind the scenes grunt work if you need any support. and will be participating.
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The Driver App Shortage Hackathon virtual SONAR hackathon will run between June 15 - June 22.
Participants will be given SONAR API for a week to build out new solutions to improve the lives of truck drivers.
Completely free to participate. Anyone is welcome.
Details to follow.
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@bcherny - I downloaded the latest update and when the cowork app relaunched I lost ALL of my recent sessions. Can you help me recover these?
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Our city’s new golden age starts right here. VOTE TODAY!
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@Cernovich Problems from the front porch resonate. The fraud relative to the cost of living asks nothing but wtf is going on?
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No reason to fret. America’s military freight is secured.
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@dartinguphill We have 2 of these units in our fleet. All of the drivers like them. The interior is like a Mercedes.
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I believe that the upcoming local and state political elections, if they go the way I will be voting, west coast industrialization will outcompete current Midwest production. Ie pratt for LA mayor, a CA R governor, weeding out the CCP demonic political figures like what happened today in SoCal. This graph is proof to the adage you don’t care about politics but politics cares about you. That’s my take anyway.
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Notice that the Midwest and Southeast are surging, while the Westcoast hasn’t kept up.
You are see a live look at American reindustrialization.
Hedgeye@Hedgeye
🇺🇸 U.S. trucking rates surge to the highest level since 2022
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@FreightAlley This is amazing. And what I would define as patriotic as opposed to sitting on cash and thinking about financial engineering concepts for rewarding small groups of folks.
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This is doing remarkable things for the economy.
Rather than sitting on cash, the hyperscalers are deploying it back into the American and Taiwanese economies
Jeff Weniger@JeffWeniger
Microsoft having capital expenditures equal to 37% of its revenues would have been unthinkable a decade ago. This is supposed to be a software company, but these are numbers you see for an industrial company, or an oil & gas play, or a railroad, or something like that.
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Edison Motors Just Got Approved To Sell Our Hybrid Semi Trucks!
#EdisonMotors
#HybridSemi
#CumminsX15
#TruckApproval
#CleanTech
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