Posted on 05/08/2016 6:33:17 PM PDT by fella
So many people posting about trucks. This thread is not about truck sales. It is about our economic health and what plummeting truck sales indicate. As an indicator, it means shipping has been way down and fleets are lasting longer because they are handling a reduced number of goods. It shows a gradual decline in overall economic activity.
There is no recovery. We have been in one very long but well masked recession deceptively hidden with creative accounting and government money printing.
I didn’t think this went through because when I posted it I got a blank screen.
Only in ObaDinga's mind !
We're in a recovery - read the newspapers, and the media !! FUBO !
Everyone is hold out for the new Tesla rig coming soon. The hybrid version just like the diesel electric train engines made by GE. Made in partnership with Snecma S.A. is a French multinational aircraft and rocket engine manufacturer headquartered in Courcouronnes, France.
Just retired out of Peterbilt we called them kits. Chassis and cab without engine and transmission, most have axles but some don’t have drive axles.
There’s an outfit that buys a bunch of them and puts Detroit engines in them. The rumor was that Detroit is the only engine that doesn’t require DPF.
Obama and co have reached the end of their economic bag of tricks.
He’s setting us up for a world wide depression for next year. Of course after that comes war.
Makes you part of the 71 percenters:)
“There is no recovery. We have been in one very long but well masked recession deceptively hidden.......”
Absolutely.
Significant.
My contact lens company is going again through the same trouble it had in 2008. Disposable Contact lenses are a good indicator of Middle Class ease in wealth. They are like canaries in the coal mine type products.
We have been told to scale back our production because our sales force has not been able to keep up, and this is not just because of lost market share. In 2008 they fired brutally a bunch of people that were valuable knowledge and they vowed not to do that. again, so we only are being reassigned.
This is not good, this came as a surpirsed after weeks of being admonished to maximize production and time efficiency on machines. There might be something else coming.
Yellen and Fed Reserve games have been done solely to bail out the Obamaeconomy. China is supporting hismpresidency,mitmis obvious, by financing our low interest rates.
Glad I got LASIK years ago.
I was too dependent on contacts.
“He’s setting us up for a world wide depression for next year.”
Some would argue that it’s already here.
“Of course after that comes war.”
Absoluty.
Well spec’d used trucks that are pre-EGR, DPF, DEF bring a good price at auction. Some buyers are happy to avoid all the emissions technology in newer trucks which translates into more downtime and higher maintenance costs.
From the Denton plant?
They make a “convertible”. It comes as a 9 speed spec’d for company fleets. Then when the trucks is ready to be remarketed to Owner Operators, they convert it to the 13 spd. O/O’s just like more gears :-)
Texas has one called TERP.
Texas calls their program TERP. http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/airquality/terp/rebate.html
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