Comments By Dennis L

These are handy references for king pin laws by state. My company’s trailers have stickers on them listing the states with max hole back rules.

I run in the Midwest a lot so frequently use 12th hole back as maximum. I find that 12th hole usually provides good balance between drives and tandems weight distribution.

Be careful about Indiana rule on state highways being 7th hole max back rather than 12th.

I have had to have 3 trailers reworked by one shipper running from Michigan to Tennessee when tandem was overweight in the 12th hole max back. Usually take a couple pallets off.

2023 was my first full 12 months driving without a disruption. Grossed $74k with ~112k+ paid miles.

I’m happy with it.

Way to go Sandman J getting through the first year!

A lot of the work that I did as a Petroleum Engineer managing and studying data for abnormal trends will and is being replaced by AI.

I’ll be home Dec 21, taking 7 days paid vacation. Back out on 29th.

Taking the wife to Monticello, AR to visit daughter and grandson’s family. Wife has 3 great-grandchildren that we haven’t seen in a year.

I’m taking the family out on Dec 23 for family dinner at Hoot’s Steaks & BBQ in McGeehe, AR. This place has great food.

Head home on 24th. Stop at casino near Pine Bluff, AR that my wife enjoys.

Spend quiet Christmas Day at home. I’ll bake some game hens.

Steve Bannon reports that about 8 trillion $ of federal debt (~$37 trillion total now?) is coming up to be refinanced from near zero interest rate to 5% bond rate. Annual interest payments to service the debt will be ~$1 Trillion next fiscal year.

If Yellen can’t sell the bonds the Fed prints more money driving down value of the dollar.

Progressive Leftist Modern Monetary Theory pushes the idea of “unlimited” government debt spending so long as the interest payments can be made.

The proposed fiscal budget is $7 Trillion with a $2 Trillion deficit (they estimated $5 Trillion of tax revenues). However, new outlook from the OMB is for lower tax revenues of ~$4.4 Trillion due to reduced economic activity. So larger deficits keeps growing the total federal debt.

The BRICS countries are banding together to replace the dollar with the Chinese Yuan as the global reference currency, ie Petro Yuan vs Petro Dollar. If that succeeds, things will get a lot worse in US economy. Those countries are supposedly buying up a lot of gold.

This doesn’t even consider a global digital currency system that will subjugate us all to a CCP style Social Credit Score unless the US rejects it.

To top this off the individual tax rate cuts that Trump got passed are set to expire in 2025. The corporate tax rate cuts were made permanent. So we will get screwed again in a couple years.

My most frequent repeat run (8 times) has been Gen Mills, Reed City, MI to Interstate Warehouse Murfreesboro, TN. Easy drop & hooks on both ends.

PS. I averaged 63.6 CPM for last 6 months and 64.2 CPM for last 3 months after some pay rate increases