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Concept behind B4DC Freight
Posted July 13, 2010
The concept behind B4DC Freight is to create a network of freight shippers, brokers, & motor carriers so we have available freight as close as possible to freight being delivered throughout the US. Reduce deadhead miles in freight transportation, hold down freight rates, and consumer spending at a time when our economy needs stablility.
By doing so we accomplish all our representatives suggest they want, promote energy independence, reduce traffic congestion, emissions, infrastructure costs, accidents, injury, death, health care costs, and create jobs doing so.
President Obama wants to hear from you:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/advise
Now is the time to let our representatives know what you need to be competitive in a global market and stay in business in these changing times.
The freight transportation system we depend on is an outdated model running over an infrastructure $2.2 trillion in disrepair costing US billions of dollars a year due to waste & inefficiency.
Times, technology, markets are changing at an ever increasing pace through global markets, the following video, and web site is something everybody in the freight business needs to see.
www.supplychainbrain.com
Introduction to Enterprise Resilience
Dr. Joseph Fiksel
Exec. Director
Center for Resilience
The Ohio State Univ.
http://www.resilience.osu.edu/CFR-site/aboutus.htm
If shippers work directly with motor carriers as well as brokers, hand carriers off so as to keep them loaded, reduce deadhead miles, offer fuel advances, quick pay options to motor carriers, 6% one day, 4% two day, & 2% one day like brokers do, split savings normally paid through margins brokers make, 18% on average nationally, they can save 5% to 10% or more on every load.
Using 3PL has it's advantages but there will be times those advantages will not outweight the need for carriers and freight shippers to work direct while benefitting all. As a broker there were times I couldn't get freight into some areas because other brokers worked with shippers moving freight out and some brokers only paid 80 cents a mile.
That being the case I couldn't get carriers into these areas and I felt we needed as an industry to use 21st century IT to cut costs by reducing deadhead miles.
Fuel driving the price of everything up, food prices are going up, 2-10-11, Bloomberg News, world production of corn, wheat, and soybeans will slump 2.2 percent. Corn used to feed livestock and make ethanol jumped 89 percent in the last year, soybeans up 54 percent, wheat, dairy, sugar, cereals all rose and high prices are expected to perist.
Other news reports food price will increase 2 to 3 percent.
Look at B4DC Freight links page, Infrastructure and freight transportation are a matter of economic and national security.
http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/fact-sheet/roads
http://www.fasterbettersafer.org/map.html
http://www.uschamber.com/lra
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/19/60minutes/main7166220.shtml
Our representtives are looking at a transportation bill, haven't had one in almost two years, energy independence, securty, traffic congestion, emissions, infrastructure costs, cargo theft, Homeland Security issues, food safety, accidents, injury, death, & health care costs.
Go back up the page to Fed Highway Stats & Facts
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/docs/07factsfigures/table3_5.htm
We had 145,173 million freight miles in 2002, 29 million, 20% were deadhead miles, empty trucks.
Compare: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/docs/07factsfigures/fig3_4.htm
To: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/docs/07factsfigures/fig3_5.htm
National Freight Policy, US Dept of Commerce with Joe Holecko
We spend $200 billion a year due to traffic congestion, will spend 14% of GDP in 2050. What will we pay in health care due to accidents and food safety?
We currently spend $152 billion a year due to food borne illness, 76 million Americans get sick, hundreds of thousands hositalized, and about 5000 die every year.
Include all costs and we spend billions a year due to infrastructure, much a direct result of freight transportation, and it will cost much more if we don't work together.
http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/fact-sheet/roads
http://www.fasterbettersafer.org/map.html
What will we pay due to traffic congestion in 2035 when we pay $200 billion a year now according to the same www.supplychainbrain.com videos?
B4DC Freight is a business listing/transportation load board It includes business web sites, and a drop down entry businesses can post everything they want their customers to know. Business post free! A B2BS2STMS Businesss to Business, State to State, Transportation Management System.
Buyers, sellers make the connection prompting business with every possible business in every state in the nation, reduce deadhead miles, and keep truck drivers in business.
Shippers, brokers, and motor carriers who continue to lag, not use 21st century IT, and drag down the country through this outdated system of freight transportation will be the first to go out of business and they will drag the country down in doing so.
Transportation needs
Posted July 13, 2010
Below is some of what motor carriers & shippers can expect to see on www.supplychainbrain.com If you aren't on board with B4DC, Supply Chain Brain, & AASHTO you are missing out.
Sponsored by:
Growing Freight Demands Are Creating Transport Crisis
AASHTO | July 13, 2010
In 10 years, an additional 1.8 million trucks will be on the road; in 20 years, for every two trucks today, another one will be added. Already bottlenecks on major highways used by truckers every day are adding millions of dollars to the cost of food, goods, and manufacturing equipment for American consumers. As a result, according to a new report, the transportation system that supports the movement of freight across America is facing a crisis.
In a new report, Unlocking Freight, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) finds our highways, railroads, ports, waterways and airports require investments well beyond current levels to maintain – much less improve – their performance. The report identifies key projects in 30 states that would improve freight delivery and dependability, and offers a three-point plan to address what is needed to relieve freight congestion, generate jobs and improve productivity.
Despite more long-distance freight being moved by intermodal rail, the report finds that trucks will still carry 74 percent of the load. On average, 10,500 trucks a day travel some segments of the Interstate Highway System. By 2035, this will increase to 22,700 commercial trucks for these portions of the Interstate, with the most heavily used segments seeing upwards of 50,000 trucks a day. Yet between 1980 and 2006, traffic on the Interstate Highway System increased by 150 percent while Interstate capacity increased by only 15 percent. The report identifies the 1,000 miles of most heavily traveled highways used by trucks.
Unlocking Freight is the second in a series of reports generated by AASHTO to identify the need to increase capacity in our transportation system. For more information and to see state examples of freight capacity needs, go to http://expandingcapacity.transportation.org.
Food safety FDA
Posted August 5, 2010
FDA NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: July 9, 2010
Media Inquiries: Michael Herndon, 301-796-4673, Michael.Herndon@fda.hhs.gov
Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA
FDA: New Final Rule to Ensure Egg Safety, Reduce Salmonella Illnesses Goes Into Effect
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that as many as 79,000 illnesses and 30 deaths due to consumption of eggs contaminated with the bacterium Salmonella Enteritidis may be avoided each year with new food safety requirements for large-scale egg producers.
http://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/index.html
This email is not spam. It has been sent to greyghost@qwest.net Scott Tisthammer because of previous contact with FDA regarding food manufacturing. If you do not wish to receive future emails from the FDA Small Business Representative, please reply indicating so. I will honor all requests for removal.
This is all public information that you can use as you see fit. I hope you can attend. The information benefits your industry as well.
Sincerely,
David Arvelo
Email david.arvelo@fda.hhs.gov
Phone 214-253-4952
Fax 214-253-4970
US spends $152 billion a year due to food borne illness
Posted August 12, 2010
March 3, 2010 Associated Press, US pay price for unsafe food.
We spend $152 billion a year due to food borne illness, 76 million Amerians get sick, hundreds of thousands go to the hospital, & about 5000 die.
Look these pictures, you can see pictures of less than desirable conditions in transportation & warehousing in the highly subsidized dairy industry.
It should be noted milk sold through the forth largest dairy in the nation, milk in these pictures is sold private label through major fast food & retail outlets, McDonalds, Burger King, WINCO, COSTCO, & others. Consumers have no idea the milk they buy & consume could be rerun several times, & finally fed to hogs when it fails the rerun process.
Freight Act Bill introduced
Posted August 12, 2010
Press Release of Senator Lautenberg
Senators Lautenberg, Murray, Cantwell Introduce Bill to Create 21st Century Freight Transportation System
Freight Act Would Ensure Transportation Infrastructure Supports Business Growth
Contact: Lautenberg Press Office, (202) 224-3224
Thursday, July 22, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) today introduced legislation that would establish a freight transportation policy to ensure the nation’s transportation system supports the United States’ global economic competitiveness. The legislation would direct the federal government to develop and implement a strategic plan to improve the nation’s freight transportation system and provide investment in freight transportation projects. The goals include reducing congestion and delays, increasing the timely delivery of goods and services, reducing freight-related transportation fatalities, and making freight transportation more efficient and better for the environment.
“We are long overdue in establishing a national freight transportation policy that will meet the economic and mobility demands of the 21st Century,” said Senator Lautenberg, who chairs the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security. “Poor planning and underinvestment in our transportation infrastructure has led to increased congestion at our ports, highways, airports, and railways, and increases the cost of doing business. If we want to help U.S. businesses succeed and create new jobs, we need a freight transportation system that works better and can grow with the changing needs of the global economy. This bill would put us on that path.”
“The safe and efficient movement of goods across our nation is critical for our businesses, especially for those in my home state of Washington,” said Senator Murray, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development. “The FREIGHT Act will help bring us a national freight policy that will dramatically improve freight mobility in this country and increase the competitiveness of our businesses, reduce congestion, and provide a much-needed boost to job creation in our communities.”
“Exports play a critical role in Washington state’s economy,” said Senator Cantwell. “A key piece of any thriving export economy is the smooth shipment of freight from farm and factory to port and customers. This legislation will help our export economy remain among the strongest in the nation by understanding how to maximize the way road, rail, sea, air and pipelines interact.”
The “Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation (FREIGHT) Act of 2010” would establish America’s first comprehensive national freight transportation policy and create a new Office of Freight Planning and Development within the Department of Transportation (DOT) that would coordinate efforts to improve the efficiency and operation of all modes of the national freight transportation system. The Secretary of the DOT would be directed to develop and implement a long-term national freight transportation strategic plan that meets the goals of the FREIGHT Act, and issue biennial progress reports, which would include any challenges to implementation and any requested policy and legislative changes.
The major goals established by the FREIGHT Act are:
•Reduce delays of goods and commodities entering into and out of intermodal connectors that serve international points of entry on an annual basis.
•Increase travel time reliability on major freight corridors that connect major population centers with freight generators and international gateways on an annual basis.
•Reduce by 10 percent the number of freight transportation-related fatalities by 2015.
•Reduce national freight transportation-related carbon dioxide levels by 40 percent by 2030.
•Reduce freight transportation-related air, water, and noise pollution and impacts on ecosystems and communities on an annual basis.
The FREIGHT Act also would create a new competitive grant program for freight-specific infrastructure projects, such as port infrastructure improvements, freight rail capacity expansion projects, and highway projects that improve access to freight facilities.
The bill is endorsed by the Coalition for America’s Gateways and Trade Corridors. The organization's support letter can be found here: http://lautenberg.senate.gov/assets/FREIGHT.pdf.
Egg producer has history of violations
Posted August 25, 2010
Monday August 23rd, 2010 Statesman wire services.
The company now is at the center of a huge recall-and Federal investigation-promopted by a salmonella outbreak. This recall is linked to at least 1200 cases of salmonella poisoning in at least ten states.
Like the Gulf oil spill, violations, & ignoring regulations will no longer be tolerated due to health care costs. Previous violations, fines paid, illegal immigration, abuse, sexual, housing, working, to animal. How can we possibly NOT address all these issues?
There has been case after case of food poisoning, salmonella, E. Coli, health care unaffordable, reform just passed, this outbreak will put more pressure on our representatives to regulate which will translate into higher costs to shippers, & higher transportation costs.
Get ready to pay much more for everything we buy, from cloths, to fuel/taxes, air we breath, food we eat, to health care, & it will land directly on freight transportation. Poor decisions by some, shortcuts to save pennies lead to consequences others will pay dearly for, not just in money, but health
Refer to the FDA Food Safety & US spend $152 billion a year articles, ask how this will drive up the cost of transportation, & health care.
CA introduced new regulations, Transport Refrigeration Unit {TRU} Airborne Toxic Control Measure {ATCM} {13. California Code of Regulations, section 2477} requires TRUs to meet in use performance standards by Dec. 31st of the seventh year after the TRU engine model year.
Freight rates out of CA are currently average $2.50 to $3 a mile & the rest of the country will see similar rates when new laws go into effect.
Next look at www.justice.org/violationsdatabase Over 28,200 motor carriers with over 200,000 trucks on the nation's highways with violations, conditional & unsatifactory ratings, 80,000 Americans injured, & about 5000 killed every year.
None of these probems can continue to be ignored, CSA2010 a perfect example, it will cost everybody in shipping, & transportation.
Independent motor carrier job loss
Posted March 24, 2013
OOIDA:
3065 motor carriers with at least five trucks went bankrupt in 2008, oil, & fuel costs were a large factor.
MCClatchy News, 5-23-10: Food fight pits big, small producers, between 2002 & 2007 40,000 midsized farms disappeared.
www.abiworld.com:
1,473,675 US bankruptcy filings in 2009, up from 1,117,771 in 2008, 60,837 were business filings, up from 43,546 in 2008, percentage another double digit increase.
Can we all agree, Wall Street, & banker's greed are to blame for our problems?
Cargo theft, food safety, failing FMCSA, & still no response from President Obama?
Posted September 4, 2010
I've been trying for months to get with President Obama for help to create this site, tried to get with mayors of several major cities, almost every Gov. of every state, Democrtic National Committee, & I only recall one response from CA which sugested I get with someone else?
Breaking news, 9-4-10 Maryland DOT sent me a letter, turns out Maryland is way ahead of me & the nation, already has a Statewide Freight Plan, publicshed in 2009 to identify projects & poltices to inprove freight. One of those policy goals is to improve truck technology through web sites such as www.b4dcfreight.com to enhance freight flow, reduce costs, and increase freight opportunities for the freight community.
President Obama claims to be all about entrepreneurs, innovation, small business, has energy independence as a priority yet a US taxpayer can't get a response from the guy on an outdated system of transportation costing US billions of dollars a year?
Cargo theft is on the rise, record numbers, the FBI doesn't have time to investigate, & Homeland Security is nowhere to be found? I work for a large trucking company & they have sent out several email pointing to cargo theft, loads hijacked, held hostage, & it's getting worse evryday. If our representatives, FMCSA, FBI, Homeland Security, FDA, USDA, INS, & the rest can't handle the job now we might want to ask how they will address the problem when freight traffic increases in 2035 as indicated on the FHWA site: Compare 2002 to 2035 below.
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/docs/07factsfigures/fig3_4.htm
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/docs/07factsfigures/fig3_5.htm
Cargo Theft Rates Reach Record Highs In 2009
FreightWatch International | February 02, 2010
Cargo theft rose by 12 percent in 2009, to an average of 72 cargo theft incidents per month, according to FreightWatch International’s 2009 Annual Cargo Theft Report. This is the highest level of thefts ever recorded. Electronics, the industry most heavily hit by cargo theft, accounted for 23 percent of total theft activity, with an average loss value of $806,000 per incident. It was closely followed by the pharmaceutical sector.
Add in food safety, recent recall with eggs, meat, peanut butter, USDA, FDA, FBI, & Homeland Security nowhere to be found? It was recently reported we spend $152 billion a year due to food borne illness, 76 million Americans get sick, hundreds of thosuands hospitalized, & about 5000 die every year, We spend $200 billion a year due to traffic congestion & will spend 14% of GDP in 2050 according to the US Dept of Commerce.
Look at the Links page, Same FMCSA http://www.justice.org/violationsdatabase/ & CSA2010 you have to realize the FMCSA is failing miserably yet like our represnetatives they refuse to ackowwledge their failure, try to cover it up the way it seems.
Food & Beverage: The United States Gets Serious About Food Safety
Paula Hollywood, Senior Analyst, ARC Advisory Group | February 22, 2010
Analyst Insight: The recent, highly publicized food incidents and drug recalls have eroded public confidence in the FDA's ability to protect consumers from harm. The goal of the new Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, is to restore public confidence in the process. To do so, she is enacting new procedures designed to enforce existing laws.
On September 8, 2009, the FDA launched the Reportable Food Registry, an electronic portal through which food facilities report the reasonable probability that use of, or exposure to, a food will cause serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.
The FDA's goal is to prevent harm to consumers by having all regulated companies commit to compliance. Strengthening enforcement will enable the agency to quickly intercept unsafe or fraudulent products to contain injury.
Get Ready for the Food Safety Enhancement Act
SupplyChainBrain | January 18, 2010
Following a number of recalls due to tainted products, the government is getting involved in the process of ensuring food safety throughout the supply chain. Tom Kozenski, vice president of product strategy with RedPrairie Corp., discusses how companies should respond.
Businesses need to prepare for passage of the proposed Food Safety Enhancement Act, a response by lawmakers to recent incidents of tainted product. Like it or not, “government is now becoming more and more involved in helping to manage control of food and food safety within the supply chain,” Kozenski says.
The development is likely to have “a dramatic impact” on the ability of food producers to move inventory to market, he says. They will face a marked increase in documentation and transactional requirements, as regulators seek more detailed information on their quality-control efforts.
Serious slowdowns in the supply chain could occur if companies tackle the requirement through manual processes. They might need additional labor resources in order to collect the necessary data and paperwork, adding to overhead expense. Even businesses that are able to monitor activity at their own plants could find it difficult to keep tabs on external suppliers. That, of course, is where many cases of tainted product tend to occur.
New tracking and tracing technologies can help. The most effective tools monitor inventory attributes associated with both raw materials and finished goods, Kozenski says. Companies will have to identify every entity and individual that touched the product, from the farm all the way to final delivery. Getting that information at the very beginning of the chain “is an extremely difficult task,” he says.
Go to Internet TruckStop web site, look into the problem of cargo theft, & stolen identities.
10/06/2009
"Due Diligence"
The Internet Truckstop has received a record number of complaints for STOLEN IDENTITIES.
This problem is starting up again. ITS Security is getting reports out of Los Angeles CA. Update from 2/23/09 5/15/09
If it were just private industry, not the highly subsidized dairy industry, & representatives covering up it might not seem as bad. Add in the fact representation as high up as the White House, Jim Risch, 13th wealthiest in Congress, all accept millions in campaign finance from banking, to insurance, to agriculture, to oil, & we have a serious problem which is only going to get worse. Health care & freight transportation costs have just begun to rise.
Obama proposes $50 Billion for Infrastructure
Posted September 8, 2010
McClathcy News, 9-6-10
Lambasting the GOP, Obama proposes $50 billion for roads, rails and runways
Republicans will no doubt hold this up but they should be reminded of a few things before they do.
Bush said war in Iraq would cost the same $50 billion, to date we've spent more than $700 billion to date destroying a foreign nation, over 4000 Americans have died in Iraq, we've spent $50 billion on reconstruction in Iraq Bush said oil would pay for, & Cheney's Halliburton has no doubt made more than $50 billion through government no bid contracts.
Republicans should be reminded that while they hang onto tax cuts for the rich we have an infrastructure $2.2 trillion in need according to www.infrastructurereportcard.org. It seems to me if you look at the fact many of these wealthy use the infrastructure to produce & transport their goods, consumers who absorb the cost of those tax cuts through fuel taxes, not just on gas, but deisel used by trucks because this is passed on through the price of goods, & with an increase of prices there is an increase in sales tax.
We should also point out that according to www.ewg.org the the top ten percent, wealthiest corporate farms get 70% of the subsidies worth billions.
Republicans should also be reminded most republican states, while representatives voted against stimulus & health care reform have cut budgets all over the map, have received billions from both stimulus, health care reform, created jobs, & without either those states would be in far worse shape.
Last they should look around this site & they would see we spend $200 billion a year due to traffic congestion according to the US Dept of Commerce in a National Freigt Policy video on www.supplychainbrain.com
They should also look at links that show while the FMCSA is currently running CSA2010, the same FMCSA has many issues they have never been asked to explain. First they have no idea how many active motor carriers there are, 65,000, 490,000, or over 700,000 as they claim on CSA2010?
http://csa2010.fmcsa.dot.gov/whats_new.aspx#10748
TIA's CEO Robert Voltmann mentions in another Supply Chain Brain video that he has shown the DOT folders where they have authorized 20 to 30 MC#s to the same address.
It should also be mentioned that according to
http://www.justice.org/violationsdatabase/
http://www.justice.org/resources/Truck_Report_Final_082109.pdf
There are over 28,200 motor carriers, 200,000 trucks with violations, conditional & unsatisfactory ratings, over 80,000 Americans are injured, & about 5000 die every year in truck related accidents.
There is more than enough money to pay for infrastructure but it's currenly being handed to campaign contributors, banks, insurance, oil, & others while consumers can't drive 70% of the economy buying their goods on wages held down due to free trade & illegal immigration both parties ptomote in return for the same campaign finance.
I could go on but I beleive if President Obama were smart & democrats really wanted to win in Nov they would point out a few of these things while republicans try to stop infrastructure upgrades costing thouands of lives every year & US billions of dollars from health care, to traffic conegstion, to energy independence.
Truck driver shortage
Posted September 16, 2010
USA Today, 9-9-10 Trucker shortage stalls deliveries
Crunch will probably worsen as economic recorvey picks up.
Shortage of trucks & drivers are delaying some deliveries of products an raw materials across the USA and raising freight costs.
New truck prices have risen $25,000 since 2002 becuase of stricker emission standards, and many smaller carriers can't get loans amid tight credit requirements.
Meanwhile thousands of older drivers retired when they were laid off or saw their workloads cut.
It's tough to attract younger workers to a lfestyle that typically means being away from home for weeks at a time for salaries at start about $38,000. Many prefer to collect jobless benefits.
62 MPG for New Cars by 2025
Posted October 3, 2010
Associated Press
Government suggested Friday that US automakers could be required to build such fuel efficient lineups in 15 years.
It's all included in potential efficiency ranges the governmnet is considering for new cars & trucks starting in 2017.
B4DC's take: Remember when gas went to $4 a gallon? People quit driving as much & there were billions lost in tax revenue for roads.
When President Obama was faced with the BP oil spill he said BP never considered consequences when they neglected safety leading up to the oil spill.
Our representatives never, never consider consequences when they do anything or they would be asking how then are we going to pay for roads? President Obama is making the same mistake asking $50 billion for infrastructure as Bush when he said war in Iraq would cost $50 billion, now over $700 billion. Where do we get these people who come up with numbers so far from reality?
Look at B4DC Links page, www.infrastructurereportacrd.org $2.2 trillion needed for infrastrcuture now & President Obama thinks $50 billion will put a dent in this while at the same time suggesting 62 MPG cars which will reduce fuel taxes by more than half of what we currently pay?
With bridges falling in rivers & gas leaks resulting in explosions leveling entire neighborhoods I don't believe $50 billion for infrastructure offset by better gas mileage is going to work out very well.
The result of 62 MPG cars will be a drop in fuel taxes, tax passed on to trucks, then passed on to consumers through everything we buy, & passed on again in sales tax. This is either ignorance or more scam!
In other words an economic recovery is not considered, worse yet purposely held up, when our representatives come up with these big ideas yet they ignore messages from innovative entrepreneurs they suggest they are all about.
President Obama sends me email all the time, to two different email accounts, asking for money, vote, help dems get elected, but has never once answered any of my messages. The dems don'teven allow you to respond to these email asking for money & help?
Good Job President Obama but next time consider the consequences.
Consider the consequences of $149 barrel oil driven by the market? Busted every household budget to DC red, consequences, busted the housing bubble resulting in the financial crisis. Was it deliberate?
Consider the consequences of corporate & factory farms. Cheap food but millions of small farms out of business, American taxpayers out of work, out of insurance pools, replaced with illegal immigrants as cheap labor abused in nonunion shops, we paid their helth care, & health care unaffordable the consequence. www.ewg.org on B4DC Links Page.
We call this representation?
Cattle producers say low prices killing their livelihood
Posted October 20, 2010
As fewer meatpackers dominate the industry, it gets harder for beef growers to sell at a profit.
The market for domestic meat has withered to the point where ranchers often receive only a single bid for their meat. A trend that could eventually mean lower quality meat on dinner tables across the United States.
Makes on wonder, what next? My thoughts are obvious, Freight transportation, but when there are so few jobs, & ways of life left, how tough could it be to guess which is next?
OOIDA:
3065 motor carriers with at least five trucks went bankrupt in 2008, oil, & fuel costs were a large factor.
MCClatchy News, 5-23-10: Food fight pits big, small producers, between 2002 & 2007 40,000 midsized farms disappeared.
www.abiworld.com:
1,473,675 US bankruptcy filings in 2009, up from 1,117,771 in 2008, 60,837 were business filings, up from 43,546 in 2008, percentage another double digit increase.
Another American job, industry, & way of life gone yet the people keep going for representation responsible for all these stories.
Posted October 20, 2010
As people read this news I hope they realize all the jobs, industry, & the American way of life have been sacrificed through our representation, & campaign finance. The people voted for this, proving democracy might not be what we as individuals are led to believe? You have to do more than vote, you have to educate yourself, & know the facts.
Bumper stickers used to say buy American, the job you save may be your own. Illegal immigration, & free trade have been promoted through our representation in DC. All the while we've watched it slowly happen, continued to vote for the same two parties who accept campaign finance, www.opensecrets.org hand out billions of our tax dollars, tax cuts we absorbed as individuals, & yet as a nation, the Unites States are divided, republican/democrat, more so everyday?
Americans without jobs, earning less, out of insurance pools as a result, we as a nation can't sustain.
I'm guessing the Native Americans are getting a chuckle out of all this as WE the People have been manipulated, now lose everything much the same as they. The natives lost land because they didn't have written tital in a language they couldn't have had such title, & now We the People, having been misled, lose homes through government, & are pushed into poverty much the same way Natives were.
Free Trade
Posted November 6, 2010
It was recently reported that Chinese workers were committing suicide because they don't have a life. These people work 12 hr days, six days a week, sleep ten in a room, in dorms, & are paid $132 a year. When this story came out they received a raise & workers are now paid $300 a year.
The company they work for, Foxconn, is owned by a billionaire who employs 800,000 people.
If you look at http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf
You will see China has 1.332 billion people, India has 1.179 billion people, & the US has 311 million people. The American peopl e lose more eveyrday, lose lives in war, jobs, homes, & more while our representatives promote contributors, invest in them, & make millions.
We can't, will never be able to compete on labor, knowing this our representatives, state governors & the President take corporate CEOs to China & India on trade missions. These same representatives as well as governmnet agencies refuse to endorse private business making obvious campaign finance, cash in the hand of our representatives buys our representation.
If the American people don't act soon, China will also take control of freight tranpsortation as can be seen on:
www.supplychainbrain.com videos
Growth in the 3PL Sector
Evan Armstrong, President, Armstrong Associates Inc
Consolidation, a must see if you are a small 3PL,
motor carriers, or freight shipper.
Mr Armstrong clearly states the industry will continue to see consolidtation, smaller 3PLs selling to larger compaanies, more shippers moving away from 3PLs, globaalization, & even China buying US companies.
And
Challenges Facing Transportation Brokers
Mike Williams, Chief Operating Officer, Sunteck Transport
Mike Williams clearly points out shippers want asset based carriers, Sunteck is larger than mom & pop brokers don't have the ability to cover freight with dependable carriers, & the FMCSA CSA2010 will weed out independents beacuse they can't compete.
Larger companies with asset based trucks & a brokers/logistics side have been hiring as many brokers as possible & have been doing so for a reason!
Congress is also looking at raising the brokerage bond from $10K to $100K which will push many smaller brokers out of buisiness. Mom & pop brokers will sell to larger companies for more money, a pattern in the US over the past half century, smaller business, brokers, & motor carriers will go by the wayside.
It is clear US government, our representatives are handing trucking, the freight industry to larger corporations, not just domestic, but globally. As seen with family farms to corporate farms, then handing them millions in subsidies, now passing food safety measures due to recent food related illness which will drive up the cost of food. We've seen it with banks/bailouts, insurance/reform, oil/defense/war, all business pushing small to midsize companies out of in favor of campaign contributors in which our representatives can invest, & make money!
Consider this from OOIDA &
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From: OOIDA Call to Action
To:
Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 2:42:22 PM
Subject: CALL-TO-ACTION: Cross-border trucking with Mexico
President Obama’s Trade Representative and other public officials need to hear from you!
Last week Ron Kirk, the United States Trade Representative (USTR), traveled south of the border to meet with Mexico’s Economy Minister. During a press conference after their meeting USTR Kirk told reporters that he is committed to resolving the cross-border trucking dispute with Mexico and the Mexican Economy Secretary said a solution "will surely occur this year."
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