Comments on: The Future of Trucking? http://lifeontheroad.com/2008/01/07/the-future-of-trucking/516.html Discussion and opinions about the trucking industry Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:54:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Everitt Mickey http://lifeontheroad.com/2008/01/07/the-future-of-trucking/516.html#comment-1030 Everitt Mickey Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:36:10 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/2008/01/07/the-future-of-trucking/516.html#comment-1030 I think your version of King Canute is the more accurate. I think your version of King Canute is the more accurate.

]]> By: E. Phil Haley http://lifeontheroad.com/2008/01/07/the-future-of-trucking/516.html#comment-1021 E. Phil Haley Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:10:28 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/2008/01/07/the-future-of-trucking/516.html#comment-1021 Yep, trucking and transportation in general <em>is</em> changing rapidly. I'm in agreement with you, Everitt, on every point but, where you seem to be grudgingly accepting the coming tide as inevitable, I think I'm kind of looking forward to the potential for new opportunities. And, as we all know, a rising tide raises all boats. By the way, didn't Canute already know it was impossible to stop the tide; only making the attempt in a somewhat sarcastic effort to prove he wasn't the god some were making him out to be? Yep, trucking and transportation in general is changing rapidly. I’m in agreement with you, Everitt, on every point but, where you seem to be grudgingly accepting the coming tide as inevitable, I think I’m kind of looking forward to the potential for new opportunities. And, as we all know, a rising tide raises all boats.

By the way, didn’t Canute already know it was impossible to stop the tide; only making the attempt in a somewhat sarcastic effort to prove he wasn’t the god some were making him out to be?

]]> By: Everitt Mickey http://lifeontheroad.com/2008/01/07/the-future-of-trucking/516.html#comment-1014 Everitt Mickey Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:51:27 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/2008/01/07/the-future-of-trucking/516.html#comment-1014 I think you're right. Doesn't mean I gotta like it. I don't like Dentists either...or Colonoscopys....but they're necessary. I go to ports when I can't avoid it. I hate em. Not the ports themselves so much...although that's no picnic, but the getting in and getting OUT of the ports. One wrong turn and you're screwed, blued and tattooed...Times ten with an Oversize. I've been to those ports in Taxifornia..and to others. I've also been to several, if not all, of the Ports in California's two largest counties. (Oregon and Washington) I hate them all. Something has to be done. From the standpoint of any factor you care to name Long Beach, Terminal Island, and just about any port located in the middle of a metro area is teetering on the edge of disaster. I could go on and on but unless you've been there you wouldn't believe it. BandAides aren't going to help either, not for long. As much as some of us would wish otherwise it appears that both an alternative to West Coast Ports AND longer, heavier trailers are going to happen. Building a modern port essentially from scratch in Mexico and the infrastructure to get the freight where it needs to be might be it. Other things too. We might not like them either. However. There's an old addage I ran across. If you have a problem....well you have a problem. But if you have SEVERAL problems....well you might just have some opportunities. It just might be possible to have one problem solve another problem. Huge traffic thru modern facilities in Mexico is going to pretty well destroy the Mexican Culture. I see that as a plus. They'll eventually, and not too long from now, be just like southern Taxifornia or south Texas. Illegal immigration problem solved. Fifty or a hundred years from now Mexico might as well be just another state. Hell it might BE another state. No wall required. About a thousand years ago a dude named Canute found that it was impossible to stop the tide. He tried....it didn't work. Same thing here. Trucking is changing....the whole transportation sector is changing......rapidly. Sorry. Get used to it. I think you’re right.

Doesn’t mean I gotta like it. I don’t like Dentists either…or Colonoscopys….but they’re necessary.

I go to ports when I can’t avoid it. I hate em. Not the ports themselves so much…although that’s no picnic, but the getting in and getting OUT of the ports. One wrong turn and you’re screwed, blued and tattooed…Times ten with an Oversize.

I’ve been to those ports in Taxifornia..and to others. I’ve also been to several, if not all, of the Ports in California’s two largest counties. (Oregon and Washington) I hate them all. Something has to be done. From the standpoint of any factor you care to name Long Beach, Terminal Island, and just about any port located in the middle of a metro area is teetering on the edge of disaster. I could go on and on but unless you’ve been there you wouldn’t believe it. BandAides aren’t going to help either, not for long.

As much as some of us would wish otherwise it appears that both an alternative to West Coast Ports AND longer, heavier trailers are going to happen. Building a modern port essentially from scratch in Mexico and the infrastructure to get the freight where it needs to be might be it. Other things too. We might not like them either.

However. There’s an old addage I ran across. If you have a problem….well you have a problem. But if you have SEVERAL problems….well you might just have some opportunities. It just might be possible to have one problem solve another problem.

Huge traffic thru modern facilities in Mexico is going to pretty well destroy the Mexican Culture. I see that as a plus. They’ll eventually, and not too long from now, be just like southern Taxifornia or south Texas. Illegal immigration problem solved. Fifty or a hundred years from now Mexico might as well be just another state. Hell it might BE another state. No wall required.

About a thousand years ago a dude named Canute found that it was impossible to stop the tide. He tried….it didn’t work. Same thing here.

Trucking is changing….the whole transportation sector is changing……rapidly.

Sorry. Get used to it.

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