There is momentum behind getting rid of it... the problem is now a disagreement over which option to choose. Get rid of DST completely or move to permanent DST?

Yes, but I get the impression that rail is already at or near capacity. We really need more rail and we desperately need a separate passenger and light freight (mail, car trains so that people can take their car on vacation with them, etc.) rail system.

Working fast food isn’t mean to get someone a $150K salary to take care of his family but rather a way for some HS kid to make some spending cash working weekends.

TBH Trucking needs to become for the last few miles of delivery. Not the entire logistics network...

Sounds like someone who was never in the industry. I don’t like unions. Driving a truck is a tossup on life work balance. You want to support your family but have to work. Work for truck drivers especially company guys means 1 week on the road 1 day at home 2weeks on 2 days off and so on. I started at a mega trucking…

We massively subsidize the trucking industry with our public roads. Rail cannot compete except on bulk goods because trucks dont have to directly pay for and maintain the roads. 

We need to make big structural changes to shipping in our country. Shipping by trucks is obscenely wasteful. I absolutely feel for the little guy in the process, I sincerely do, but big trucking and even small-time owners have built upon a business model that is ecologically disgusting and economically precarious. And…

Oh, without a doubt you’re right about that.

Bad for trucks, perhaps good for rail.

I don’t doubt they are hiring, especially if the wages is nothing to get excited about.

Every truck I’ve seen has had a hiring sign on it, from small to large companies, since owner-operators don’t usually hire others.  I live in Salt Lake, so I see trucks coming and going from all four directions across I-80 and I-15.

Would be interesting to know if this is just squeezing independent owner-operators and company drivers or if the big freight companies are struggling as well.  YRC, Schneider, Old Dominion, etc.  Often the plight of the low man is not the plight of the shareholders and CEOs.

This. Fortunately the fuel surcharge helps. But spot rates have been on a massive decline and is what’s hurting the truckers the most. The rates went from near record highs to below average very quickly.

This sabotage is 100% in Russia’s playbook.

I’m less inclined to think we or our allies did it. We never shown any will to destroy infrastructure that would cause a detriment to our allies, where Russia has shown they’ll lob missiles into territory indiscriminately. Not to mention the relatively close proximity the pipelines are to Kalingrad which houses…

Given that you can probably store the excess water in existing reservoirs, that’s not a terrible idea. 

Seawater reverse osmosis consumes from 1 to 3.8 kilowatt-hours per thousand gallons. I wouldn’t call that a small sum. Especially when the source you are comparing it too is gravity assisted.

these plants take a whole lot of power to make drinking water.  Hope California plans to build a bunch of solar/wind power plants.

I think we’re going to have to start seeing more and more of this, up to and including desalination plants feeding water pipelines over/around/through the mountains to refill some of the big reservoirs.

An excellent ruling.