Chip Setzer

Ex-Welder from the Valley - Wit or Lack Of mine - Current Forest Products Trader

[Chip Setzer @chip_setzer]

@adamstatonsmith My old coworker had a full on dirt track in his Dunthorpe backyard…

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@adamstatonsmith Same here but we’d never want the job

The minute you shine / it makes them look rotten and they won’t allow that

[Michael Redd @MichaelRedd_]

My son turns 19 today.

Some of you might know him as the 4-year-old who used to play 2K with me and had no idea the guy on the screen was his dad. Or maybe you saw him ball in OH in high school and figured he'd play at the next level like the other legacy kids, and he probably could have, but that's not what he wanted.

Michael spent his first year out of high school building a business in private aviation. No campus, no dorm. Just him, a computer, and a phone, dialing into an industry that doesn't routinely open doors for outsiders, let alone teenagers.

I was nervous when he decided to go this route, and I told him so. College is the safer path and I know what the startup world does to grown men twice his age. But the kid takes rejection better than I ever did, and I supported him in his choice. So, he's learning the business from scratch and holding his own on calls and at conferences where everybody else has 30 years on him.

My nerves wore off somewhere in the past 365. Now I mostly just watch and smile. Kid might not be a hooper, or a college student, but he does have IT.

Happy birthday, son. Keep going.

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@adamstatonsmith @Redfin Same Same

I still get epic house in New Mexico in my feed…

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@wbridgefa DM’s open if you got capacity

I think I’m currently at 15 loads on the board, no TWIC needed, etc

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@SOCKEYETRUCKING @FreightAlley @AndreLHampton Yeah - Jacksonville has sort of always ran counter to the rest of Florida. Been a easy lane for a long time

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@wbridgefa @AndreLHampton @FreightAlley It’s sarcasm in the short term. Like I just want to get products from point A to B like I have been doing for decades and it’s like Covid times

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@TrukFytLLC @AndreLHampton @FreightAlley All good on this end.

It just baffles me that Jacksonville of all places to truck into is this bad.

If I was pointing trucks south of I-10 that’s a different world and has been for 20+ years

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@wbridgefa @AndreLHampton @FreightAlley Troy, Monroeville, Atmore, Mexia, etc

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@AndreLHampton @wbridgefa @FreightAlley Wonderful just wonderful

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@wbridgefa @AndreLHampton @FreightAlley Good question-range is normally 200 to 250 mills into Jacksonville from North Florida locations. We have some origins as close as 90 miles.

I fully expect issues if we were aiming for South Florida but we are sticking to I-10 corridor and it’s baffling

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@TrukFytLLC @AndreLHampton @FreightAlley I’m not a broker of trucking…but I get what you’re saying.

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@AndreLHampton @FreightAlley Just mind blown - we’d run South Alabama to Jacksonville weekly for like $1400-1800 and those same lanes are north $2000

Inter-Florida $1200 to Jacksonville (I-10) we’re struggling to get coverage, come Monday we’ll add $$$ but still.

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Taking my boys to Sunday executive Costco opening time slot, is winning

All the snacks - no crowds

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@jamesonhaslam @bobbyfijan That’s the way

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@adamstatonsmith @11point7 Well played

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Welp

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@jasonc_nc @MikeGrunwald I remember a bit - on the food channel or 60 minutes, etc about the best semolina is grown in AZ and 99% exported to Italy

WUT