Preparing for 2013

Weathering The Storm As A Truck driver, Tower, or Cottrell Owner

Many of the articles that get posted in this blog and others come from news sources all across the country. I pull articles from regional magazines, newspapers, blog feeds, etc.. I saw an article recently that featured a trucking business about 5 miles from our office here in Portsmouth.

The trucking business is Frank's truck stop up the street. This is a popular stop that has been around for over 70 years. Generations of truckers have come through this stop in and out of the port of Virginia. Many of the truckers, Cottrell owners, towers, and other transportation professionals that visit us, go here.

The article caught my eye, not just because they are local, but because it talks about what this business is going today to prepare for 2013. Post election, there are a lot of questions as to which way the economy is going to go. Is 2013 going to be a turbulent year economically, or are we leaving the worst part of the recession behind?

Why take a chance?

Franks truck stop has a possible solution. That solution is to reserve your cash and prepare for a rainy day. This, obviously, is not what the government or Frank's would like to do but this is what they have to do. Think about it. 

You have had five years of slowing economy activity and political gridlock There is no real plan on the books to solve things. There is no guarantee that gridlock wont be the status quo for the next two years. Having cash on hand may be the only insurance policy that a company has anymore...

 http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2012/11/12/businesses_stockpiling_cash_amid_cloudy_future.htm

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Clever Trucking Procedures

There is an old biblical saying "the clever will be caught up in their own devices" I doubt this was meant to be applied to the issue of Mexican cross-border trucking but it kind of fits. According to Truckinginfo.com the National program to "open" our border to Mexican Trucking is stalling heavily. To go forward with the program the Department of Transportation must conduct over 4000 inspections. So far the number of inspections they have completed are:

89

So here is what is happening. A few years ago the Federal government thought allowing lower cost Mexican Trucking into the United States would be beneficial to a reeling economy by? well I dont really know why. Exporting American jobs in the middle of recession is a head scratcher but the program was approved BUT here is where it started to breakdown.

The Department of Transportation also thought it would be a great idea to begin levying over 5 billion dollars of regulations on the trucking industry during a recession to make us safer. And it did.

Now the much cheaper Mexican companies cannot meet the extensive safety and emissions regulations that would allow them to drive here.

So not just are we safer but our jobs are safer too. Very very clever.

http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=77974&news_category_id=3
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