Idle Aire has gone out of business.  They left quite a mess in the parking lot caused by their insistence on pull in parking.   Now drivers need to help themselves by making the parking lot safer.

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I was able to show the manager at the TCA in Santa Nella the safety value of opening up the front lane of Idle Aire spaces so drivers could either back in farther, or could pull through and leave rather than backing out into a tight drive way caused by Idle aires yellow barricades that served no other purpose than to line up tractors to receive those yellow hoses from the overhead A C units.

He ( the manger) was quick to see the safety reasons for removing those barricades.

Today I am at the petro in Glendale Kentucky. Again I see those yellow barricades causing drivers to continue backing into or out of spaces in tight conditions that could be eliminated by the simple expedient of turning or removing those useless yellow plastic barricades.

So I moved a few and took pictures so that other drivers as they encounter this can also help to eliminate this safety hazard and make parking safer and easier for everyone.

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So Why not drivers, they are not hard to move.  How much easier and SAFER will the parking lot be if WE turn those yellow barricades so that drivers can pull though?

Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index™ Reveals Need for Reality Check

Index Drops in January after Exceptionally Strong December; Foretells Industrial Production Index

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 10, 2010 – Results from a major new econometric report – the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index™ by UCLA Anderson School of Management – show the U.S. economy fell in January after a significant increase in December, with the index falling at an annualized rate of 36.8 percent. The more reliable three-month moving average for January managed to show a 3.3 percent gain at an annualized rate following the exceptional annualized rate of 14.6 percent in the previous month.

The index is based on an analysis of real-time diesel fuel consumption data from over the road trucking tracked by Ceridian Corporation. Ceridian produces the index in conjunction with UCLA Anderson School of Management and Charles River Associates (www.ceridianindex.com). It mirrors closely the Federal Reserve’s Industrial Production Index but is issued days before that index is released.

“Though the January 2010 number is disappointing, the index is 3.6 percent above its January 2009 level and is similar to year-over-year pre-recession values,” said Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast and chief economist for the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index. “Also, the three-month moving average is 2.3 percent above the previous year’s value, which is the first time that there has been a year-over-year increase since April 2008, 21 very difficult months ago.”

Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index™ Reveals Need for Reality Check

Does $5 make or break you? 10? 20? To some people that amount of money can be food for days or a roof over their heads for the week. Simple, but true…
People still continue to amaze me. It seems that no matter where a person goes, you still can find good, heard working people. Kind people who are more than willing to lend a hand however the best they can. it renews faith in some ways. This is a note about one such person and a way that her legacy continues.
I was lucky enough to meet a very interesting elderly woman in Ohio, Barb Wyatt. Barb was one of these people. Living on a very meager income, she spent most of her life teaching, educating, and just plain lending aid to others in the ways that she was able. Late in her life, Barb was able to befriend a large group of truckers, and was able to educate us in her kind ways.
Barb was able to see nobleness in many people. She was able to explain her version of kindness. "Small things, unknown, can add up to a great deal to someone." She was the inspiration behind "Barb Wyatt Weekends." These events are plain and simple. If she or someone in a small group would learn of a person in immediate need, where a small amount of money would make a huge difference in their life…. a group would mobilize.

Chris Thom: Guerrilla Kindness (Friends of Ms. Wyatt) « The Peoples Journal

wars and rumors of wars… or is it bankruptcies?

by the48thronin on Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:43 am

I am watching transport and freight because I am closer to that than other aspects of the on going collapse of the global system. As almost every reader here know already knows the freight volumes both world wide on ships and nationally on rail and truck are still shrinking no matter how they might try to claim they are not.
3 days before Christmas a 1400 truck special hauler ( flat beds, removable neck trailer for over dimensional loads and drop decks) went out of business in a flaming collapse that stranded 1400 drivers. As an industry truckers turned and helped their fellow get home and hoped they would find work somewhere else.
Monday of this week on an overnight radio show that caters to drivers a caller claimed he had been notified his company ( where he had worked 7 years) was going to shut the doors the last day of January. He asked other drivers to let him know who might be hiring drivers still after the glut of arrow drivers that are still being re absorbed by the industry. There is no official word of this yet, but if that company closes, it will have a tremendous impact on some distribution of some products. That company is also in the flat bed drop deck etc business. Those trucking companies in that line have been hit the hardest by the cancellation of construction projects . Unlike myself they have little work tearing down or closing businesses, their thrust has to be new construction and remodel work which is DEAD at the moment . These companies are over a year away from their last profitable quarter. They will begin to fall off the cliff now.
The first quarter of the year has always seen some attrition in the trucking industry. The loss of produce in Florida due to the prolonged cold spell, and the continued depression in construction will now play out with a vengeance.
The commercial real estate bust is upon us, but more importantly the transportation infrastructure is at or close to the breaking point. Just my opinion.

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