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    PiPoe posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago

    Trucking/supply chain tidbit.
    I have a friend whose family has a small trucking business. They’re saying that the large trucking firms are taking ANY shipment at any price. The small trucking firms cannot compete.
    We can look at this as further attacks on small businesses; I also see this as a way to increase centralization and control of goods availability. Local businesses will have a harder time of obtaining inventory (Walmart, Costco, Amazon, etc. won’t) and the Big Box firms will decide what products will be available to their ‘customers’. I expect selections offered by these Big Box firms to be centralized as well. And, you will probably need a ‘passport’ to purchase anything they carry.
    If anyone has further related news, please share. It helps in estimating time horizons for this sector and other ‘dots’.

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      Foglamp replied 5 years, 1 month ago

      PiPoe, do you know the extent to which the big trucking firms are adopting driverless/autonomous trucks and could this have anything to do with falling shipping rates? Or is it still too early for that?

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          PiPoe replied 5 years, 1 month ago

          I haven’t heard of mass adoption of driverless trucks yet; that doesn’t mean it hasn’t taken place in certain areas – I just don’t know.
          Given the stage of robotics roll out in the public arena, it would seem that the driverless sector is still to come.

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              Foglamp replied 5 years, 1 month ago

              Thanks, PiPoe. I know that one or two corporations, like Amazon, have been deploying driverless trucks for at least a couple of years already (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnRz0JENL1Q); but I don’t know how successful they have been.

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                  PiPoe replied 5 years, 1 month ago

                  Thanks for the Amazon info. Now that you mention it, I know I’ve heard about flying drone delivery in some urban areas – where exactly I don’t recall. It would make sense due to density and volume that roll outs would take place in major cities first – especially those with the five g infrastructure cozily in place. Related – I read an article recently that some military grade drones were being purchased by police departments for ‘surveillance’; this would also logically roll out in major cities initially. Crazy times.

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              Robert Barricklow replied 5 years, 1 month ago

              “they” certainly don’t want long term customers.
              Ironically, those w/o passports, will be the only “living” customers left.
              Unfortunately, zombies will be wanting a slice of those living bodies. Preferably, the brains?
              Sorry, my humor is getter darker by the NWO minute.