Trucking | Made in America

Have I ever mentioned I absolutely love my job? I’m pretty sure I have and I’m pretty happy with who I’m hauling for at the moment. After hauling slot machines into New Brunswick Canada we are at our Maine office before we pick up a load in Mass. Tomorrow we are going to use the company car and check out Maine and New Hampshire Mountains.

We get a room and I’m surfing the channels and come across John Ratzenberger’s Made in America on the travel channel. It’s Cliff from Cheer’s traveling around checking out products made in America. After listening to Where the Right Went Wrong by Pat Buchanan which is really a good listen. One of his many points is that America has lost our manufacturing base which is what made America great in the past and we’re going to be up a creek when a crisis hits. It’s kind of depressing and a little scary and I needed a show like Made in America to see we haven’t totally lost every manufacturing job.

When I first started trucking, one of the coolest parts of the job was seeing the factories around the country. From small shops to the huge factorys. Even though I don’t haul produce or a lot of raw materials anymore I see a lot of shops where high end furniture is made. Along with slot machines and computer components.

Trucking is cyclical along with the economy. Trucking is one of the leading indicators of how the economy is going. For us, it’s going pretty good and we’re hoping to ride this cycle as long and as profitable as we can make it. Mainly because we invested BIG last year and this year, so we need a couple of good years to get things paid off so we can ride out a few slow years. Slow years will happen it’s only a matter of when and how slow will it get.