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.

Same.  I was April (I think) and locked in 12 mos. at around $0.14 after paying less than $0.10 last year. The idea of $0.30 - 0.40/kwh makes my brain hurt.

I am also on green mountain, 36 months at 10.8cents+centerpoint fees. They are Crazy high here now also.

I used to pay for power and light specifically when I was in school and using Lubbock Power & Light. Now I am with Green Mountain Energy and it seems much cheaper.

Yeah, thats crazy to me that its that much cheaper there to us public ones. Level 2 public chargers were always significantly more expensive for me since the Volt only has a 3.6kW charger (other than a few 2019s) and Texas charges by time. The only time I really do it is at the zoo/park since parking is a nightmare.

I am in Houston and was lucky enough to renew in May. I did check and I am actually paying 15.0c/kWh, once you factor in delivery charges, for 100% wind. I would definitely be leaving my provider if their best plan was 22.9. I spent a few costly days on power to choose before I decided to renew with mine as they were…

theyve already done that. TFL drove a ram 2500 and a lightning towing up the ike gauntlet. here.  electric trucks def arent ready for long distance towing.  towing in town to get to the lake 30 miles away youll be fine.  much further tho and i wouldnt. 

mine used to be that cheap here in texas until the freeze. then governor hot wheels claimed he made the power producers promise to be good and keep our grid up and running no matter what. they did fuck all except double our rates. i checked my renewal and its 22.9c/kwh. im on a plan for 13.9 now thats about to run…

I hate all these apples to oranges EV vs. ICE comparisons. I want to see a breakdown of a diesel F-350 pulling 10,000 lbs vs. an EV truck pulling the same weight. I want to see the cost difference, the time to refuel/charge, the frequency of stopping, and how out of the way one must go off route to refuel/charge.