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- 00:00 Biden bows out of Presidential race and what it means for freight; CloudStrike outage still causing airline chaos
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@carrierwhisper
on generative AI for RFPs; lessons learned about freight at Amazon; market vibes
- Trucking
Big if true. Can anyone confirm that Taylor Swift paid out a $100k bonus to every trucker on her tour?
“One Taylor Swift sources tell us she gifted each trucker working her tour $100,000 ... handing out the bonus checks before her Saturday show in Santa Clara, CA. We're told the
With 10 million CDLs in the US, truck drivers are a huge voting block! The challenge there is how do you vote when your job has you on the road for days/weeks at a time?
@ScottPresler
has a few suggestions, even if you're skeptical of main-in ballots, there are other options!
The US only keeps 90-120 days worth of commercial scale feed-grade vitamins for livestock on hand at any given time, while producing none of it domestically, it all comes from China.
@maphumanintent
has the numbers on what happens if China cuts the US off.
Entire load of pineapples is rejected because one pallet is broken. Driver's OSD department takes 9+ hours to figure out what to do with it. Now out of hours, driver parks it for the day.
What's the dumbest reason you've had a load rejected before, and how smoothly was it fixed?
@MorePerfectUS
September last year we spoke with Norfolk Southern and CSX rail veteran Joey Cobb and his warning about the use of the PSR system by rail executives was dire back then as well.
A small trucking company out of Villa Park, Illinois goes out of business, leaving their drivers stranded more than 1,000 miles from home. Check out how
@CDLTEAR
helped get
@RunnTDC
and his dad home!
Remember when Guitar Hero was a thing and everybody would be like “go play a real guitar” and then American Truck Sim came out and they said “go drive a real truck?” Well this guy did