Properly, the Earth has accomplished one other 584 million mile revolution across the Solar.
For a lot of, it has been and fantastic 12 months full of protected and well-paid miles, no accidents or inspection setbacks, and nothing however useful dispatchers and fast and accommodating lumpers.
For others, 2023 might have been much less pleasurable and never so productive. It was a troublesome 12 months for the trucking trade with extra capability and too little freight, and that filtered right down to the drivers. Many had been laid off or noticed their corporations shut utterly.
However the trade and the women and men who every day haul the freight are, for probably the most half, a hearty lot, resilient and difficult. They know it is a cyclic trade, and firms and most drivers have lived by means of down occasions previously.
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The prospects for higher days in 2024 are unsure due to situations properly out of the palms that maintain the steering wheels of the nation’s vehicles. However, we’re sure firm drivers and owner-operators shall be there when wanted.
For them, we bid farewell to the outdated 12 months with a particular model of the standard music of New 12 months’s Eve. Be happy to sing alongside, and have a cheerful New 12 months.
