Supply chain issues explained

Supply Chain =/= (just) logistics.

But read the article what I took away was author thinks unions are good, captialism is bad, doesnt like the career path he chose and wants to bitch about it.
 
While I do not deal with containers I do deal with the port of Savannah. The biggest problem I see is lack of drivers period. We use to start drivers at .50/mile. We now are looking at .55 - .60 to even get drivers to talk to us. Wait times are real all over. I've had drivers sit 4 - 5 hours trying to get unloaded.
 
I have heard of no real life truck drivers making at or below minimum wage. All the truck drivers that I know and do business with frequently make darn good money, and most sleep in their own beds at night. The otr guys do even better.
 
Tom@Hilltop_Machine said:
My neighbor is a trucker. He says he is being picky about what he takes because nobody wants to pay anything. With fuel, insurance and maintenance all up he is making less now.
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Is supply and demand at work. Trucks are getting hard to find so the brokers are now offering more for loads. That price gets passed on down the line. We paid 1.45/bu for corn to be delivered from KY last year. Now it's 1.55-1.60 depending on the broker.
 
Here is a good explanation if you have the attention span. I read the article. It hits some points but throwing money at a problem isn't going to help in my humble opinion. "Afghanistan for 400 please"

An individual Truck driver can have a more detailed experience on a micro economic scale, but to talk in such broad terms about the industry as a whole from your "isolated" role in it is a stretch, I'm pretty sure there is a fancy word for it from a statistics course I took and forgot about. Essentially its not reliable to make sweeping statements about a larger picture from a smaller component of it.

The way he talks about economics and its laws is a bit jaded. Economics is less about math and more about the study of human decision making. It's a behavioral science rather than an exact one. One of the factors discussed in the linked video was decision making and false anticipation, amongst other things. Watch it if you have the time, its very informative.
 
Tom@Hilltop_Machine said:
My neighbor is a trucker. He says he is being picky about what he takes because nobody wants to pay anything. With fuel, insurance and maintenance all up he is making less now.
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Here's a simple regality right now: Our Credit Cards, in the trucks, & most all fuel pumps, cut off at $100. A couple months or so back, fuel was say $2.09 / gallon. That = nearly 50 gallons. Now, fuel is $3.39 [& up], which the $100, buys 29 gallons! O, Damn!
 
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