Driving big trucks is fun.
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I think driving a big truck would just cause me a lot of frustration.
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driving uhaul sized trucks just stresses me out. and i’m someone that loves driving. i drive to florida about 18hrs in one go when i visit family but in a uhaul that would give me nightmares even broken up into chunks.
when i moved about 1300 miles a decade ago i paid my girlfriend’s uncle(who was a truck driver) to drive the uhaul and i followed in my car.
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LTL companies like Estes will drop off their trailer, you load, they pick it up, drop it off, you unload.
Not sure if that might be less than PODS. I know LTL freight is in a slow period.
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I should also mention that I’m moving apartment-to-apartment so can’t have a trailer or POD sit at the destination indefinitely. Probably only have a few hours with the loading dock, so we’d either need to time our cross-country drive perfectly or would need the service to be able to store the trailer somewhere
Buy a school bus and put all your stuff in it
Drive across the US to your destination
???
Profit
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Estes and any other LTL will store the trailer, but they absolutely cannot be relied upon to fit into a tight delivery window
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If you aren’t sure what to do with your shit when you get to your destination, pods make a lot more sense. For us, we had bought the house already and wanted to get moving in as soon as we arrived. Movers and pods wanted to sit on our shit for like a week or more, and we didn’t want to be living out of suitcases in our own home for that long.
Lol car dealers
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A bunch of hipsters in the northwest who want to build out a schoolie?
I don’t know if I’d call them hipsters, but they are plenty of younger folk with the time, energy, and money to do a schoolie build out here. There’s also a lot of margin when buying at auction from a rural school district in the Appalachians and then selling in a highly-populated, well-monied cities like many on the West Coast.
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That convention sounds like hell. Lots of weird stuff, especially this odd bit from Neon Deion:
Sanders, more polished than his keynote predecessors, hit the right notes of flattery and ideology that the dealers were looking for. He sympathized with the challenges of running a family business dogged by disappointing progeny, and told the crowd that he ranks his kids every month, to combat the malign forces of youth softness. He knew the names of some cars when presented with the obligatory question of what new make he wanted to buy. His atavism came with the weekend’s most polish.
“We’ve got a soft country right now!” he intoned. Everyone cheered. “We gotta get back to the basics,” he said. “You all are providers, leaders, and conduits of change.” Later: “We cannot change; we gotta get back to the basics.”
“Applaud yourself,” Sanders instructed, and the dealers did.
AI bros are absolutely insane. The popular thing going around today is some AI app that can show you “the rest of” a famous work of art. It takes the painting, then guesses what would be going on outside its borders. It’s dumb as fuck. There is no “rest of” a work of art.
And there’s this. “lens-free” photography. Um…that’s not photography.
https://twitter.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1663563526089355264
Wut?
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My company is moving me right now, the movers came and packed all my shit up on Friday. They will deliver it at my new house sometime between June 5 and June 15, lol.
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I notice you didn’t say which year
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I’m afraid to ask. The packer was supposed to show up from 9-11 and the driver was supposed to be there a few hours later. The packer showed up at 3:30 and the driver at 10:30 at night. I was like OK I’m going to the hotel, what do I need to sign. I signed a bunch of shit and then went to bed, when I went back the next morning all my shit was gone, hopefully on a truck or something. I have no idea when they finished.
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