Recent content by Westwind

Speaking of my wife, she checks in in the Arconic Eagle Cam in Bettendorf Iowa constantly. Good current view of the chicks being fed. https://arconic.com/eaglecam

Planted the last of 180 miscanthus rhizomes today. Done with that for now, we were going to dig our clusters and propagate from that but my wonderful wife thought I was too busy for that and told me to just order. (Used Maple Farms. Awesome service.) . We are maybe going to work on that again...

I mow along the road and pick up a lot of Busch Light, Mountain Dew and small fireball bottles. Great job picking that up. That is A LOT of litter.

Wife and I planted about 70 miscanthus rhizomes yesterday in the howling wind. Got rain on them last night. Funeral today so we didn’t get much done, I did go for a long walk in the morning to find four mushrooms to add to the four I found mowing my lawn.

Doing good since they weren’t released! I think that was her job anyway.

They are cracking down on that. It is common to stop cdl drivers with ongoing removal proceedings and a cdl. Non-domiciled cdl holders or something like that is what it’s called.

Interesting idea! Any way to cut the brokers out I’m in favor of. The foreign born drivers are still a problem though. An Indian driver told me once that his fellow Punjabs were the problem, he said they don’t know the language good enough to know what bad rates they are agreeing to lol

I don’t know a lot about how Amazon works overall but their trailers (or more likely a fleet of trailers they lease) are all over on the interstates. They are usually pulled by owner operators with marginal equipment, all drop and hook set ups. It’s the lowest rung of the trucking business...

Just when I’m mowing!

That is a great mix!!!

It is so short sighted. Once it is gone we will never get it back. Sad and disgusting.

Interestingly, flatbed companies, livestock haulers and tankers are a little bit immune to this problem so far. You have to be trainable, speak the language adequately and know how to load/unload specialized trailers…. Rates are probably better but not great. I don’t deal with these kind of...

The U.S. trucking industry is running on fumes. It used to be that one truck could support one family and a living could be made by folks who like this way of living or have less options. Americans willing to do the work could run small companies and make a real living. That was then, this is...

Terrible. A failure of Congress, both parties are failing.

Surprised it has taken this long. I still think irrational exuberance will push the indexes to new highs but it is going to get hairy after that. If only we knew when! Disclaimer: You can’t time the market.