Norman Peterson

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@dartinguphill Burple!!!

purple? you like this color?

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@TheCrazyTrucker @supertrucker Schaeffer...

@realulmapache @supertrucker Nope. Never heard of any of them. Of course I haven’t been in the industry long. Just long enough to have driven for the company that used to own the left lane. I thought Schaefer was a brokerage now? Not to be confused with Crete. Different Shaffer.

Walmart isn't alone in their struggle to find qualified drivers, but it's because they shoot themselves in their own foot with these requirements. Someone like myself with over 1.5 million miles accident free, not qualified to drive for Walmart, or most companies for that matter.

Ja, I have my bag of XRP...and a few other assets. Wish I had an automated trading program set up to catch XDX when it went to $1.15...that was a couple years ago. It would have netted me mid 6 figures... Not versed enough to set one of those up tho, so I'll just have to keep a close eye on things.

@realulmapache You thought about it and didn't buy. I thought about it and bought eleven times. The difference between us is a decision and $1.2 million. You chose correctly. Diamond hands to you for holding cash.

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

@TheCrazyTrucker @supertrucker Naw...Schaeffer was owned by Bud and Helen back in the 70s-early 80s. Ran for Crete for a while, then over to HTL. Bray Lines was kinda like Lil Audrey... You ran for Monfort?

Naw, I'm up to date on the IT thing. Install my own OSs.. What peeves me is these companies don't even get to the point of contacting DAC etc. I'm retired now, do the Uber thing for extra $$$. Wish I could find that email response I got from that company wanting me to attend the driving academy. That was oh, 3-4 years ago. Oh, driving commercial busses doesn't count, even tho we are subject to the same DOT safety regs. Most of the outfits I've been with are out of business anyway, some you've probably never heard of. Bray Lines Schaeffer Truck Lines Food Transport Altruk Direct Transit

I guess you somehow have missed out on computers? Come on man! Lololol. Ok. No more of that. Out of business. If it’s recent the information will be on your DAC report. Or one of them depending on who they used. If it’s not recent then oh well. I just checked with a company I was leased to for about 8 yrs. I left in 2002. Took him about 10 seconds. Now if I want it all sent somewhere I have to sign an authorization. Yes, even to myself.

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🚨 BREAKING: The House of Representatives has passed a bill mandating automatic deportation for illegal aliens who commit welfare fraud, in a 231–186 vote.

@supertrucker Put a fork in that operation...it's cooked.

Bad time to be one of these freight brokers.

@CynicalPublius Question: Dad (passed 1996, CSM ret WW2, Korea 2x, Vietnem 2x) had a shadowbox of various medals, awards, unit cites etc. I've rebuilt it, and have a question. Dad was 11b to start, transitioned to 31b, then 12b sometime in the late 1940s. Didn't talk about it, but did let slip a couple of items that indicated participation in actual combat. Has medals from the Pacific, N African, European theatres in WW2, Korea in the early 50s, then in the mid 60s and of course the 'Nam twice. I can say with certainty that he experienced combat throughout his career, but I can find no way to indicate that as with a CIB or CAB as he does not officially "qualify" for either of those as he transitioned from 11b shortly after WW2. So, what do I put in that shadowbox to acknowledge his experiences? For the time being, I've added a CIB, but I know it is not correct. I would like to know just how to proceed. Thanks for all the replies! Oh, and here's a little nugget from his time (circa 1948) as an MP/CID.

As for the 10 years, yes, it is law for us drivers, but there is nothing requiring companies to keep those employment records available for verifying employment. They usually keep them for 6-12 months, then off to the storage warehouse, where they are pretty much unavailable unless some govt labor agency requires a look see. And how often does that happen? And then there is the matter of companies that are no longer in existence. In my case, I can list half a dozen right off the top of my head. Not 10 truck fly-by-nights either. Nationally well known companies.

@realulmapache @supertrucker The 10 yrs is federal law. It has nothing to do with the carriers requirements. It’s required to hopefully stop fraudulent experience

45 years in the industry. Had one national company tell me to go to truck driving school, and suggested one based at a community college in the same county. I replied I was very familiar with the program as I had turned down a posting there as a commercial driving instructor. (The commute was a bit much to the actual yard.) Every decent company will require at least 6 months RECENT experience, and they do not take the other 45 years into account. IOW, they will hire someone off the streets with a couple of tickets and 6 months recent experience instead of the driver with extensive experience that has stepped away from trucking for a year or so.

Accurate, correct news flash. There are companies that pay for experience. Which they go back more than two years. I don’t know how long you drove…. Here’s how it works. You apply for a job with Osama Trucking. You tell them you have 6 yrs experience. They tell you, great. We only pay for five years…. Ok. According to you they only care about two yrs. Yet they pay more for experience. So they’re going to pay you for those years on your word? Not happening. There used to be one main company that carriers used to verify employment. DAC services. It’s now HireRight. There are also now at least three other companies that verify employment. So, Walmart. They require 30 months. Obviously according to you that’s a lie. Look it up. Call them. If they can’t verify 30 months, which when I took math in grade school, 30 months is more than two years? They don’t hire you. They also make you sign a form granting permission to contact former employers. Every single major truckload carrier pays more for more years experience. VERIFIABLE EXPERIENCE. If you don’t believe me call them and ask. Even Swift pays for 5 yrs. VERIFIABLE EXPERIENCE. Which does not include just because you say so. Now there is your NEWSFLASH. When it comes to accuracy you’re the CNN of trucking

@TruckerDanUSA BTW...the Buick 4.0 V* is a virtual drop-in. Paired with a decent trans, some sandbags in the trunk, and the MBs on the 'bahn will do double takes when you blow their doors off at 150kph. Any faster and it gets too squirrely.

@TruckerDanUSA My first Opel...

1977 Ford F250, 1973 Opel GT, 2003 Chevy Silverado with 34k original miles, 1960 Pontiac Bonneville. You will be surprised at how much these went for. Last post tonight. See y’all for coffee.

@SkillsMastery_ Epic carnage!!! youtube.com/watch?v=ZkNrC2…

The last speedbump was INSANE.