The big problem around here is that with the big burns last year,SPI wanted 500 loads a day off just one burn. That didn't work out because the roads couldn't physically handle the traffic,but still,log trucks are hard to come by so much so that on our green sale,under a different land owner,we'd get docked on our holdback for underweight as well as overweight by a margin of 2000 lbs.,because of the scarcity of trucks.Hence the scraping of the bottom of the barrel. Add to that the pushing out of the picture of owner operators by many forces including land owners that buy many of their own trucks and
don't like the competition.
I do love passing through Chester at 3 AM listening to 17 and hearing the local old timer
gypos warming up their rigs in their driveways and spinning yarns on the radio.