The freight market recovery is underway. @CHRobinson is forecasting a 20% year-over-year increase in spot market dry van rates for Q1, and a 12% increase for the full year.
Shippers should lock in rates, deepen relationships with their 3PLs, and prepare for a year of volatility. Remember all the shortages in 2021? Now is a time to double down on trusted partners, advisors, technologies and resources to get in front of this cycle.
On our way home from Mass, saw a truck pulling an Amazon trailer…
Mr. Abdi is quite busy with all these trucking companies. Idk how many people share this name, but 45 companies is a lot.
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon at an investor cocktail event last night on AI (part 2):
"What if, I think there are 2 million commercial truckers in the United States, and there are lots of other examples you can give. There's a thought exercise, and you could push a button, eliminate all of them, and they make $120,000 on average. Save fuel, save lives, save time, a more efficient system, less disrupted highways, all that beautiful stuff. Would you do it if you put 2 million people on the street where even if there are jobs available, that next job is $25,000 a year, stocking shelves. I was saying, "That's kind of really bad, kind of civilly, should we as society agree to that?" I don't think so. I was talking about the business and government, and they should start thinking today, not when it happens, what would we do to deal with the [AI] issue? It's got to be business and government."
In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.