Truckers Are Keeping American Supply Chains — and Americans — Alive.
Breitbart: Groceries began reappearing on American store shelves this week, thanks to the strength of a supply chain that includes farmers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers — all of whom are literally risking their lives to stay on duty.
A crucial part of that supply chain is the American trucker, who makes sure that goods are delivered in a timely fashion. That is always the case, but it is especially true in the sudden global emergency we face today.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported last year that 3.5 million Americans are employed as truck drivers. Many work long hours, and a disproportionate number of them are military veterans.
They are on the front lines once again.
My hope for Heaven is that everything you didn’t get to do here, you can do there — or at least try it. I would have made a fabulous long-haul trucker. Thank you, American Truckers!! Keep on Truckin’.
P.S. We should be able to supply our own grocery stores. We hauled 2.3 million tons of food and supplies during the Berlin Airlift.
A crucial part of that supply chain is an understatement. If there was a saloon open I’d go in and by all the truckers a beer!
When I retired, I became a hotshot trucker for about a year. Actually, I wanted to see the country and get paid for it! I gotta tell ya, I have a newfound respect for truckers. They are the unsung heroes of our society.
Truckers don’t have to interact too much with others. Their trucks are cocoons that protects them.
They are today’s heroes for sure.
I fear they are going to be overworked, burned out and become a danger to themselves as they are pushed beyond their normal expectations to keep product moving. There must be a lot of companies right now with idled trucks that would love to put their drivers back to work. There are many items being transported that could be split into other vehicles and taken to the stores perhaps easing the burden on the regular drivers. I hope someone in the right departments think beyond the norm and perhaps come up with such an idea. Would be a good plan to have in case of national emergencies which is what this is turning out to be. Give the drivers a thumbs up when you see them.
Than You Truckers
AND
Fuck You Elon Musk!
Different Tim,
At least your not pessimistic. Why don’t you try running for office, the Dimwits need more pessimism.
extirpates, I don’t have what it takes. I’m honest!
In 2002 I drove for Werner Trucking for about a year. I was gone from home more than when I was in the Navy. I loved every minute of it. Only quit when my wife had health problems.
A TOUGH AND DANGEROUS JOB, NOW MADE TOUGHER AND MORE DANGEROUS…
NO ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE MORE UP FOR THE CHALLENGE!!
GOD BLESS OUR TRUCK DRIVERS!! ONE OF AMERICA’S BLESSINGS TAKEN FOR GRANTED BY TOILET-PAPER HOARDING PUSSIES!!
Lazlo is an Insurance adjuster, I do a lot of driving.
Lately there are less cars and more trucks.
God Bless both you Truckers out there, and Lazlo drives Route 66 a lot between Crookton and Kingman and I see a lot of Trains so God bless every dang Railroad worker out there.
I see trains running with beautiful cargo containers in mile long strings
I see trucks with aluminum stock and copper ingots and enormous electrical parts and big ass pump looking crap.
You guys are twice as cool as anybody else
Thus sayeth Lazlo
It isn’t just the truckers, though. What about:
Dairy farmers
Cattle ranchers
Hog farmers
Chicken farmers
Egg Farmers
Fruit growers
Vegetable ‘truck farmers’
Potato farmers (!)
Wheat and grain farmers
Corn and soybean farmers (‘little oil’)
Sugar beet and sugarcane farmers
And last but not least, BACON farmers!!
Wait! COFFEE FARMERS <—- Absolutely indispensable. Ahhhhhhh.
Jimmy, AOC would be angry at you for not mentioning gum farmers.
When Americans put their mind to it no one can match us, think of the first year or two of WW2.
They have very few places to stop on the highway to eat now as well.
Jimmy there is a huge population of people today who don’t even know what a farmer is. They just think food jumps on grocer’s shelves.
PDJT should hold a virtual town hall, in which he would interview some of these people on the road.
CW McCall, Convoy, 1976.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VN54M1OXA
Keep it rollin’ boys and gals.
After mention of the gum farmers I must throw in praise for the dental floss tycoons up in Montana. Out all day on their pygmy ponies, plucking dental floss with a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers. (Many will scratch their heads at this.)
I truly appreciate the truckers, grocery store workers, cops, mail carriers, and all the other “work-a-day” folks that are keeping our country going through this. They don’t honestly know if this is over-hyped or truly a serious plague. You know it is terribly stressful on them and their families, yet they continue doing their jobs. Remember to give them your appreciation and thanks
Ain’t nobody gonna know this one, so I’ll tell ya.
Frank Zappa
“Montana” (Whipping) Post version”
I might be movin’ to Helsinki soon
Just to raise me up a crop of
Dental Floss
Raisin’ it up
Waxen it down
Tying it to the Whipping Post
In the middle of town
But by myself I wouldn’t
Have no boss,
‘Cause I’d be raisin’ my lonely
Whipping Post
Raisin’ my lonely
Whipping Post
Raisin’ my lonely
Whipping Post
(Well) Well I just might grow me some thongs
But I’d leave the heavy stuff
To somebody else . . . now ’bout Chester?
And then I would
Get a person
Tie him up
To the Whipping Post
And beat the living shit out of him
So that guy in the audience was satisfied
But by myself I wouldn’t
Have no boss,
‘Cause I’d be raisin’ my lonely
Whipping Post Floss
Movin’ to Montana soon (well . . . )
Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon (how unique!)
(Whip! Whip!)
Movin’ to Montana soon (now . . . )
Gonna be a mennil-toss flykune
When I grajiated high school, I went directly on the road hauling, first, forest products, then produce.
That was my college.
My parents wanted me to attend university, but I’d have none of that.
The memories I made out there are priceless and there are enough to last a lifetime.
Blocking Xings seemingly for hours (LOL), trains supplement truckers by economically hauling all of America’s goods to all parts of the country.
I am thrilled to be a retired BNSF locomotive engineer and enjoyed operating trains worth millions of dollars in equipment and commodities every trip. Train crews run trains 24/7/365 but people tend to forget about trains unless they’re stopped at a Xing for minutes or there is a major derailment. And, no, the conductor doesn’t run the train.
I, too salute those people who bring the raw materials to manufacturers (rails and truckers) to the ones who work all shifts to produce goods to those who distribute goods (rails and truckers again) to the ones who put it on the shelf. Really all Americans. Salute!