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Family, freight & fun

[Vikram Pai @vikpai]

Running a business is just realizing how dumb you were 6 months ago every 6 months

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Sigmund Freud in his letter to Carl Jung in 1907:

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

[Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ @FreightAlley]

This is what trucking rates look like when you remove the cost of fuel out of the rate

This one of the hottest trucking markets in history.

[FreightCaviar 🚛 @freightcaviar]

Life is amazing:

- Enterprise shippers exist
- Trucking companies exist
- Load boards exist
- A dude in flip flops in Chattanooga can make $250k moving frozen chicken from Arkansas to Jersey
- Owner-operators trust random freight brokers with names like “Titanium Wolf Logistics LLC”
- You can cold call a shipper at 8:07 AM and accidentally change your entire life
- You and your team can hit quota, drink tequila at a conference, then wake up and cover a produce load at 6AM
- Every load in America needs to move and somebody has to figure it out
- Reefers, flatbeds, dry vans, oversized, hazmat… there’s literally an entire economy depending on organized chaos
- You can make memes about double brokers while sitting in sweatpants making more money than your high school guidance counselor thought possible
- There are freight brokers closing million-dollar accounts while eating gas station beef jerky and Celsius for lunch
- Somebody invented MacBooks, AirPods, standing desks, cold brew, and dual monitors specifically for freight broker degenerates

Meanwhile…

There are people working underground in mines.
There are people who never got a shot.
There are people who physically can’t experience freedom, health, friendship, travel, lifting weights, falling in love, or building something of their own.

And YOU’RE not dialing harder?

Not hitting the gym before standup?

Not eating healthy 90% of the time so your brain actually works at 2:43 PM?

Not calling your parents back?

Not asking for the raise?

Not posting content?

Not taking the sales meeting?

Not building the brokerage?

Not asking out the girl you’ve been thinking about for 8 months?

Brother…

You are a conscious organism floating on a rock through infinite space with access to espresso, WiFi, freight volumes, and same-day carrier setup packets.

You already won.

Now act like it.

[Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ @FreightAlley]

Spot rates reach 3 year highs. Tender rejections top 11% for the first time in years.

Demand is not driving the market - the capacity crackdown and weak balance sheets are.

Shippers should be on alert for higher rates and capacity challenges.

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

gotta cop a pair just off the strength of me missing out as a youngin and not being broke no more

[Garcia @GarciaCap]

This pic goes insanely hard

[gal౨ৎ @prtygal777]

The Art of Noticing

[Path of Men @PathOfMen_]

Make more money

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

Obsession + Repetition + Time = You will be untouchable in your field.

[julie @helencftroy]

ice cream of the summer just dropped

[* @BIGBABYGUCCI]

everytime i wanna quit i remember horses don’t stop

[pho @photonisdead]

2 tabs deep, 4th of July

[lusso @luusssso]

The Art of Healing Cracks

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

the forecast for today is looking pretty nice