A shout out to some unmentioned tough guys and gals

[Jersey mike]

While the focus of the public is mainly on our medical institutions and the medical staff as well as LEO's and others, I want to give a shout out to all the truckers out there who are the life blood of our supply lines. Without our local and over the road guys and gals the country would come to a standstill. Even the men and women who handle all the logistics deserve some respect and attention not to mention all those who handle our rail freight.

It may not seem like it from the looks of some of the shelves in our stores but our freight is moving, I saw it on the NJ Turnpike and I95 in Delaware last weekend, trucks, trucks and more trucks.

I don't know a lot of real truckers songs but here's a couple I do know and enjoy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4epAJRPMw&list=PLb8pt07YWu2KhN7MPQNGyj-21qveU5l85&index=7&t=0s

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=68hJHQAlqWg&list=PLb8pt07YWu2KhN7MPQNGyj-21qveU5l85&index=5

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jAG4XXCOj48

So if you are a trucker, are married to a trucker, have a trucker in your family, have truckers in your circle of friends or are a family family of truckers...Thanks for keeping the wheels rolling, work them log books and be safe out there.

[DDT (12)]

AMEN!!! Thanks to all who go in harm's way to aid the rest of us!!!

DDT

[old2soon]

         When I was Still in the high seat of an 18 wheeler it Never ceased too amaze how Late I was right after I was handed the paperwork on the load I was hauling. Or told by an idjit dispatcher fresh outa college It's ONLY 4 inches on the map!  Very few people even have an inkling of what takes place to git a load from point A to point B and point B is generally a distribution ware house. And from the point B distribution to the stores. There Is a lot of Work involved getting the loads loaded hauled handled and onto the shelves.
         I'd mentioned this before in another post. We are NOT out of anything. The "stuff"-pick an item-that is not on the shelves was ordered prior to the pandemic and ordered at what the store employees and their computers figured as "normal" consumption. Lady A normally buys a 12 pak of butt wipe every other week for her household. For some danged nebulous reason she decided after the pandemic warnings she needed 5 12 paks and told all her friends. Can you say panic buying? Lemmings. RIDE SAFE.

[hubcapsc]

The first song here is a truck driving song... I really like it... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ6-i8hI3Gs

-Mike

[Valkorado]

 

I always liked this one.   Thanks truckers!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yZNVF1F23oQ

[Serk]

I've heard rumblings of a new national holiday honoring truckers..... It would be on October 4th every year.....

October 4th - 10-4.....

[scooperhsd]

Things are getting better around here - there was actually TP generally available at the store I just shopped at (on Saturday afternoon !).

[Moonshot_1]

Let's not forget the folks who put the stuff into the trucks (shout out to MEEEEE!)

For those who don't know I work for a midwest grocery chain. Work at one of their distribution centers. (Hy-Vee Food Stores)

We have been setting records for things going through our warehouse volume wise. Keeping the hoarders satisfied I guess. Back to 6 day weeks and some long hours.

Into our lawn and garden season. Shipping out tremendous amounts of Chinese outdoor furniture.

It was one of the most crazy and insane places to work, but now, just like that, it is the sanest place on the planet.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Let's not forget the folks who put the stuff into the trucks (shout out to MEEEEE!)

For those who don't know I work for a midwest grocery chain. Work at one of their distribution centers. (Hy-Vee Food Stores)

We have been setting records for things going through our warehouse volume wise. Keeping the hoarders satisfied I guess. Back to 6 day weeks and some long hours.

Into our lawn and garden season. Shipping out tremendous amounts of Chinese outdoor furniture.

It was one of the most crazy and insane places to work, but now, just like that, it is the sanest place on the planet.

hang in there my upstream brethren.  Records ? Oh yeah, we've seen records. Just theoretically speaking, as I am not at liberty to discuss sales figures. But theoretically speaking one could go from 62k to 181k in the blink of an eye.

Keep em rollin 

[JFaje1]

My hat is off to all the truckers out there, and everyone associated with loading and unloading them, and we should not forget the migrants that pick the produce to give the truckers something to haul, and us to eat. They are probably the most over looked. Hoping for a speedy recovery from the virus.

John

[Jersey mike]

Let's not forget the folks who put the stuff into the trucks (shout out to MEEEEE!)

For those who don't know I work for a midwest grocery chain. Work at one of their distribution centers. (Hy-Vee Food Stores)

We have been setting records for things going through our warehouse volume wise. Keeping the hoarders satisfied I guess. Back to 6 day weeks and some long hours.

Into our lawn and garden season. Shipping out tremendous amounts of Chinese outdoor furniture.

It was one of the most crazy and insane places to work, but now, just like that, it is the sanest place on the planet.

Keep those forklifts rolling and them floorloads moving. Keep on keep on. Every load counts and every load means product on the shelves. 

[Valkorado]

we should not forget the migrants that pick the produce to give the truckers something to haul, and us to eat. They are probably the most over looked. Hoping for a speedy recovery from the virus.

John

Especially those migrants who are picking the produce LEGALLY with work permits or citizenship! 

[Serk]

Especially those migrants who are picking the produce LEGALLY with work permits or citizenship! 

[cookiedough]

these are pretty good as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYtJIFVxQXY&list=PLb8pt07YWu2KhN7MPQNGyj-21qveU5l85&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHbGhEfnh2E&list=PLb8pt07YWu2KhN7MPQNGyj-21qveU5l85&index=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ElCpHuiWkA&list=PLb8pt07YWu2KhN7MPQNGyj-21qveU5l85&index=7

I always likes Kathy Mattea had a lot of very very good songs back in her heyday.

I always wondered as well how JOhnny CAsh remembered all the cities in his song I've been Everywhere man?  that is a lot of cities to remember saying them so fast as well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE&list=PLb8pt07YWu2KhN7MPQNGyj-21qveU5l85&index=10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKNnitpNxM&list=PLb8pt07YWu2KhN7MPQNGyj-21qveU5l85&index=16

giddy up go       so we can get all those TP's in the stores so hoarding is stopped one would hope?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUc8ejrzfsc&list=PLb8pt07YWu2KhN7MPQNGyj-21qveU5l85&index=17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urR8GDBQ0rQ&list=PLb8pt07YWu2KhN7MPQNGyj-21qveU5l85&index=14

a lot of old school songs on truckdrivers for sure,  well before my time but the older I get the more I like the oldies vs. growing up in the hair band days of the 80's.