Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 86 | Fat Pile Friday: Planes Starting To Weigh Passengers & Jeffy's Tribute To Truckers

Episode Date: April 26, 2019

It's Fat Pile Friday and Jeffy wants to address the idea of planes weighing passengers in an attempt to save fuel and better distribute the weight on a plane. Let's just say Jeffy doesn't see it ending well. Also, the idea of drone technology taking over trucking doesn't make him comfortable and therefore, he wants to give tribute to all the truckers out there that make our economy and country go.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So a couple days ago, I put in a request at the end of the podcast after the closed music that if you were to look at the time left on the recording, you'd know that there was something else coming up, that the first person to email me after hearing this would win an item, a t-shirt or a cup from shop.com, from chewing the fat. And I got quite a number of emails. from people and many of them were a response oh I probably not gonna win probably not gonna do it

I've responded to all of you thanking you for listening to chewing the fat but the winner congratulations to well I would just say me bowling we'll just leave it at that I won't give the email address but it's me bowling you know who you are you won I know you said if so I'll take a t-shirt I wear an adult medium

I mean a little smaller than what I take, just saying it. But congratulations. You should have, by now you would have received my reply to you. And congratulations. This is just a helpful hint, though. For those of you who are sneaking in, listening without subscribing the chewing to fat, make sure you subscribe. So you get the alert, boop.

Would the new shows go down or go up or however you want to say it? you also get some special broadcast you get talking thrones and talking walking dead when applicable but you get a Monday through Friday chewing the fat and a lot of times I try to throw in

a Saturday podcast a little bit of an American dream Saturday podcast so I mean I give and I give and I give and I work this tongue to the bone for you I know

and all I ask all I ask is that you subscribe to chewing the fat with Jefffish that's all I'm So how many people responded to you? Dozens. Dozens? Well, considering how many people listen to the show, that's kind of embarrassing.

What do you mean? You said dozens. Yeah. We have thousands upon thousands upon thousands that listen to this show and dozens. Not everybody. I mean, everybody that listened might not have said, I'm not going to win. They went to email. These are just the people that felt like they had a chance.

Dozens. When you do the math on the percent of people. Yeah, we're not going to do the math. The show is not about math. It's the lowest in the history of numbers. Hi God. Is today your last day? Is Chris come back next week?

Today is not my last day. As much as I freaking hate Chris, you're growing on me to be worse than him. You know, a Christian in here was wondering, you said you work your tongue to the bone. We didn't know your tongue had a bone. Oh, you learn something new every day, don't you? Quick update on the Royals.

You know, I love a big fan of the Royals. in their lifestyle. I mean, those of us that are able to live the royal lifestyle are like living it. So, you know, Megan, you know, is pregnant, of course, and she's the arrival of baby Sussex. 37, the Duchess, give a birth any day now. I mean, the kid could be born.

All right, I mean, I can be talking to you right now in this podcast and she's already got the kid. So, I mean, you never know. But they're not going to announce it anyway, so we won't know forever. I mean, we'll get some tease report of, we think she had her kid. Baby Sossack could possibly be here.

But they said they were going to try to keep a low profile. Good luck with that. They're the Royals. Hello? But apparently she finished off for official royal duties, you know, six weeks ago. But she still is apparently working behind the scenes for some of those charities. But a royal source has said that while she's made it very clear that she wants to return to work as soon as possible.

And her work seems to me almost me like me working my tongue to the bone. That would be like the Royals work. You got to show up and shake a few hands. Okay. And look real pretty. I know. Tough gig. But she

wants to return to work as quickly as can. So she's penciled in just taking three months off. I know. I think to yourself, no, Megan, how can you only three months. That is just unthinkable.

You've got to take more, but she's penciled in three months. So once the kid is here, and it could be any day, in fact, we might even have dropped already. You know, baby Sussex might already hit the ground and hit the ground running. Good for her,

because she's going to take at least three butts off. Now, I know that Kate, the sister-in-law, took six months off after Lewis's birth. I mean, six months. And five months for Charlotte. But she just took like five weeks. That's a month. A little over a month for the last kid. Wow.

Because she wanted to appear at some ultramarathon events. So as soon as Megan, this is how long Megan's going to take off. This is how long Megan's going to take off after having the kid. She's 37, so she doesn't know how she's going to be able to bounce back physically, right? She's not even spring chicken anymore, so you don't know how she's going to bounce back. So that's how long it's going to be for her to be off. She is whenever she, when she looks in the mirror and says, what do you think, Harry? Do I look as good as I did before I was pregnant?

And she hears, yeah, that's. That's when she'll be back to work. Until then? Nope. Right. And watch how you say no, too, what she asks, Harry. Right. I mean, that's the old joke, right?

With the wife looking in the mirror naked saying, oh, my breasts are starting to sag. My skin is starting to droop. I've got little bulges. And she asked her husband, say something nice. I need somebody to tell me something nice. The husband looks at her and says, well, you still got your eyesight. So, you know, I've talked about having to get the extension for the seatbelt while flying on airplanes. I don't need it anymore, thankfully.

But at one point in my life, I had to ask for it. And it's kind of embarrassing when you just walk. If that's the first thing you do, that's the first thing I used to do when you get on a plane. Hey, welcome. Thank you for flying, you know, whatever airline. Thank you for flying fishery air. Thank you. Hey, think you could,

I need an extension for the seatbelt. And you hear, oh, I'll get you one. No problem. Hey, Joe, we did an extension. Which is always what I was afraid of. This fat guy needs an extension. But most of the time,

yeah, most of the time they were, you know, if they saw that you were trying to be, you know, a little discreet, they were kind of nice. At least the flight attendants had some sort of, you know, brain cells working. But the weight has always been an issue. planes, right? They make you buy two seats if you're overweight, you're supposed to.

I think, well, I've never had to do that. I'm sure a couple people that sat next to me thought why in the past. I mean, I attempt to not fly coach when I fly because it's just uncomfortable. Even as a less fat guy than I am, it's just uncomfortable. I've flown coach, you know, and it's just frustrating as all. So it's easier to fly closer to the front of the plane. The seats are a little bit more comfortable, whether you want to call them first class or business class or whatever. But in today's world, you know, you fly, you know, business class or first, if they call it first class, it's only $18 million from city to city. Business class, nine million from city to city.

So you don't want that. But now they're more concerned about, we've had talk in the past and in the recent past about weighing passengers, right, because they weigh the luggage and they make you pay for extra luggage and now they want to start you know weighing passengers and so now one british startup group has got this little they're going to weigh patients i love the word discreetly so that means they're going to do it secretly without letting your fat but know that you're being weighed but discreetly uh so while you're you know they're trying to do this because they believe that it's going to save the airlines money right it's going to fuel costs

It's going to keep passengers from feeling like they're being shamed for their size. I don't think it is. I don't think it's going to work that way. You may end up finding yourself saving a little bit more money on fuel because you're going to be, you know, arranging. How are you going to arrange that? If you know the airplane, say, can only take 10,000 pounds, whatever it takes. And I don't, honestly, I don't know what the airline, what different airplanes can take weight-wise. And I should.

That's something that I should know because it's funny. That's funny information to know how much weight as different size airplanes can take. You know, like, I can't fly that one. That only weight takes 8,000 pounds. But, you know, I don't know how much it takes. So, but you figure there's got to be a big window because they're charging you for more weight on the luggage, right? They're not saying you can't bring it because it weighs too much. It's just a way for them to make more money.

They're enhancing their bottom line. So there's got to be a big window of how much the plane can take before they'd have to say, no, too much, right? Because if everybody came on with an extra suitcase, you think they're going to say, no, I don't think so. They're going to want the money, right? So, but as far as evening out, right? So let's say you have, you know, four fat people on the place.

And they're sitting at the same side of the place. So, I mean, you see them coming in the DFW. You know, when they're flying, when they're landing over 114, Highway 114 here in DFW, and the plane starts leaning to the left on the land, you know that that's the side that the fat people are on. It just is. You know it is. So how do you do that? Do you split up the fat people?

Because you don't say, you can't sit with your family. Oh, no, your husband's too fat. He's got to sit in the back. Or once they get on, do they have the sensors on the plane? Yeah. We've got a little bit too much weight on the right hand. So seat 23A, you're 468 pounds. We're going to need you to move to the back, just right behind the wink.

And seat 24B, you're 462 pounds. We're going to need you to move up three seats and just let that lady switch places with you. Okay, that lady only weighs 120. That's fantastic. I mean, I'd be willing to that be funny. Now, a lot of people would be ashamed, right? you'd be ashamed, especially, you know, if you were, if you were. Oh, I see, uh, seat four B.

We know you're in the first class if you paid extra, but, uh, you're 532 pounds. Holy cow, we're going to have to have move you back about six seats. I know it's going to be coach, but, uh, the plane's got to fly a little bit of evener, so you're going to have to move back. I mean, at 568, move. You're lucky if you let you want this thing at all. I mean, seriously. That's good.

That is not going to be. That is not going to go over well at all. I was not going to go over well at all. Be fun to be on the plane, though. It would be fun to be on the plane. All right. We're going to need all cell phones off. There's a passenger, Bill.

Passenger, Bill. You're sitting next to a lady that weighs 532 pounds. Bill would have needed you to slide over to the other side of the aisle. Just trade places with that little kid. A little kid only weighs about 35 pounds. and you're about two bills. But the 568 lady, she can't be sitting next to you.

We've got to even this thing out. These will never get off the ground. Thanks for flying for sure. So we got that to look forward to. All right, let's plow through some of these stories. It's Fat Pile Friday here on Chewing the Fat. one of my stories that have been in the pile for the last couple days I just haven't been able to get to them

we have we have the man found taking a nap inside the Louisiana governor's mansion eh that the governor's mansion I'm just going to go I'm just going to hang out inside unbelievable they even know how he got inside they don't know how he got inside the building they don't know if the governor was there at the time uh the Louisiana state police the the troopers and the Department of Public Safety Officers

are assigned to the governor's mansion 24 hours a day. Seven days a week. And they're responsible for the physical protection of the mansion and the grounds. We don't know how we got in. We don't know how he got in. Amazing.

He said, now, we don't even know if the wife was there. We don't know if the governor was there. You know, that means that the governor was a man. Yes, I'm sorry for assuming that. I get it. It's still an open investigation. Now, they found the guy taking a nap. He had synthetic marijuana in his pocket.

They took him down to the police station. And when they got to the police station, he tried to take the police officer's gun at the police station. I love the story from the cop, though, because the sergeant that was booking him said, yeah, I was able to stop him from attempting to disarm me with a right elbow to the face. So he's trying to take the guy's going to the sergeant just elbowed him right in the face.

No, not today. Get out of here. Have a nice day. And so I'm not even, you know what? I'm not even going to charge you with trying to take my weapon, which I should. I'm just going to charge you with burglary, criminal trespass, and criminal damage to the property. So he breaks in, goes to sleep on the couch, apparently broke an antique table while he was inside. I don't know if he was mad or if he put his feet up on it or what happened.

But that's a little bit of a problem, don't you think? A tad bit of a problem. Just, you know, that you think maybe, I don't know, the governor's mansion is probably a safe place to be. A place where you probably aren't going to be able to just walk in and say, hey, what's going on? Yeah, nothing. I just thought I'd take a nap in here and bust a table, smoke a little dope. Wait for the Gov to get back. You just don't think that's going to happen.

So good luck to the state police and the Department of Public Safety Officers that are assigned to the governor's mansion. I'm guessing they're going to be on different assignments soon. So have you been watching Jeopardy? I mean, have you been watching the new guy? Holeshauer? Went all the money on Jeopardy? Amazing.

I mean, he surpassed a million bucks in the shortest time ever. single day record holder, one day record, set with 131,000 on the same day. He's been winning all kinds of money. I happened to catch him the other night just because I was, you know, my father-in-law slipped it through the channels and there was jeopardy. And I was like, whoa, leave it there. I heard about this guy winning all this money.

Let's check it out for a little bit. And he did it. He kicked everybody's butt. And plus it was good to see Alex Trebek again because, you know, he's been struggling with his cancer. He's still fighting and I wish him, wish him pray for him all the luck that he survives this. And he's still fighting for the show.

And he's, you know, recording the show. And I think this was the end of the season, of this season. So he's busy fighting. And then he's tried to be back for next season. So good for him. But if you have a chance to catch Holhoauer, good luck. It should be it's fun. It's fun to watch somebody that,

it appeared to me at one point he was holding back. Like he was just, I'm not going to answer this because I'm going to see how smart these other two are. And the other two were not real smart. So that's what he decided to go. All right. All right. We'll do this segment for 800. Alex, go ahead.

And then he just started nailing them all. It was great. Also, a lot of us were, you know, plowing through here on Fat Pile Friday, the two brothers who say Empire actor Jesse Smellett paid them to stage the January 29th assault. They announced earlier this week that they're going to file a federal defamation lawsuit against his legal team and Jesse. So that'll be fun. That'll be ongoing forever. Can't wait for that. Should be fun to watch because, you know, we just dropped all the charges.

Hey, we're fine. Let him go. Let him go. Don't worry about it. He's fine. You know, we were talking about airlines and wave people. but the the Cathay Pacific

airline the Hong Kong carrier I think that's right C-A-T-H-A-Y Pacific Hong Kong carrier Apparently they have a theft problem They've got people stealing ice cream

Their forks and knives Champagne And they're thinking I mean the union is like It's not our people The flight attendants are like It's not us It's not ice

But somewhere in the chain As between Yep we'll buy it that and going to go on the airplane, someone is deep pocketed and plenty of stuff from them. So if you're buying Haagandas ice cream and a silverware from Cathay Pacific Airlines, it's hot. It's hot. So you might want to just pay your money and move on and get it out of there.

Don't let anybody know where you got it from. Don't do it. And there's a new aircraft now, an on-man aircraft that goes up like a giant balloon. It has, it's helium and it's got wings. but they're saying that it will go up and it's in metric so I don't know how high it goes up. It might go up like two inches

or it might go up into the space and up into the stratosphere because I'm guessing it'll go up into the stratosphere because they're saying that this may be a new way to launch satellites cheaper than using the space rockets. I mean, good luck. And they're saying that this helium

unmanned aircraft developed in Scotland could just hang up in the sky for a month or two and just be there. What could possibly go wrong with helium balloon-like items just hanging out in the sky? Nah, nothing. You're right.

Let's go to the break room. It's Fat Pile Friday. We'll go to the break room. We'll have a nice drink. And then, you know, we'll do some headlines. Maybe since it's Fat Pile Friday, maybe we just do the headlines. Oh my gosh.

So good. Right now I would love to tell you that this breakroom segment is sponsored by Coca-Cola Zero Sugar. Nothing can enhance your life more than an ice-cold Coca-Cola Zero Sugar. But I can't because they're not a sponsor. So the heck with them. The heck with them. I don't care about them. What I care about is you subscribing to this podcast, chewing the fat.

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On top of which it makes me think again earlier this week, I mentioned that, you know, not only, the question now isn't whether you're subscribed to chewing the fat. And I want you to subscribe. And I need you to subscribe. And I want you to want me. Some of rock band said that years ago. But what you really need to do is I want all your devices subscribe to chewing the fat. So if you just got one device subscribe to chewing the fat, what are you doing for me?

That's what I thought. All right, let's do some. Just the headlines. Okay. I want to get through just the headlines because we can delve into the stories if we want to. But I, you know, I just want to. I've brought some, I've got some stuff. here in the break room that is just worth the headlines.

And you'll know this. You'll know what the story is when you hear the headlines. So we'll be done. Like we'll start with 35-year-old woman has two vaginas. That's all you need to know. I mean, do you want to know more? Of course you do. Do you see that headline, 35 old woman, two vaginas and not click on it?

No. That's an impossible thing to do. but I'm just giving you the headline. Another headline. Why men beards long hair means they have the smallest testicles. Again, we all know the answer to that. But I just wanted you to, you know, read the headlines.

It's all. Head transplants will cure spinal cord paralysis. Of course you're going to click on that, but that's just the headlines. We're not going to delve into that. Just know that Dr. Sergio Canavero believes that head transplants will cure spinal cord paralysis. I have to agree with them.

Coles said it will start accepting Amazon returns in store free of cost in July. That's big news. Real big news. Coles, remember what I told you? Coals, going to start accepting Amazon returns in store free of cost in July. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is widening a probe into potentially defective airbags. I mean, haven't we been through every airbag in America and around the world now? I mean, with the Tagagi, Tokayagi, Smoggi, whatever the heck company makes the airbags.

Okay, that's more than the headline, so I'm going to stop. But just know that they're, now the probe is even getting more. How about we find another company to make? That's the problem, right? I know I'm delving deeper than just the headline. But we have this one company that's got all the deals with no other companies making airbags. How about we help somebody out? Make an investment.

One of you big startups. You're worried about weighing fat people at the airport. Why don't you worry about making a company that can make some airbags? NASA detected a first possible Mars quake. Huh? Yeah. A seismic event on Mars. So, I mean, that's a planet that's shaking and baking too. You get Marsquakes. You know, they're like earthquakes only on Mars.

Fat sex therapist, an overweight sex therapist, compares fitness trainers to Nazis and children's dieting to sexual assault. I'm assuming she didn't make it on the plane. She would, oh, she would be moved back about four seats and to the left. Easily. By the wing. And way, oh, man. And don't move.

Just stay steady back there when we take off. No question. I mean, yeah. There's no question. In fact, you might get, somebody put a Kia on board. Uh, we got, I thought, this is not a cargo plane. We're going to have to move that Kia back a little bit, a couple of things. No, I'm making fat jokes.

I'm sorry. It's just a joke. I know. Look, I'm, I'm a thousand pounds. I got it. Okay. I can make, I can make the fat jokes. Leave me alone.

Still in just the headlines, though. Mum reveals she had sex in hospital bed just two hours after giving birth. Do you want to keep going? Or do you just want to stick with the headline? After that headline, I'm stop good with it. I'm good. You know what happened? And you don't need to know why because you figure,

okay, I'm good with that. Nashville is booming. Every day 100 people move there. Annual visitors to Tennessee City leaped from 2 million to 15.2 million. The growth, however, this is what got me on this long headline. The growth, however, could endanger Nashville's music industry. So, according to Trey Bruce, a local songwriter and producer, We need a preservation plan

So you think more people Is going to hurt The industry. Weird Oh man See I know we left the break room And I forgot to give you My break room fun fact

Shoot well look Go to the restroom Go ahead When you come out of the restroom Then I'll tell you the break room fun fact Go ahead That was fast Wow

Hey hatching system Devised 2,000 years ago is still in use in Egypt. It's egg incubators with these mud ovens that used heat, moisture, and egg turning. So they've still got to have some kind of, you know, robot show up and turn the eggs.

And they produce as many as 4,500 fertilized eggs within two or three weeks. That's cranking out some eggs. You cranking out some birds with that. Every two or three weeks, you're getting 4,500 new birds, whatever eggs they are. That's pretty good.

And the devised 2,000 years ago is still in use. That's really good. And, you know, you talk about, I joke around about robots, because this is in Egypt and you probably, you know, really not going to have the robots in Egypt. But you should, because the big question, right, is AI going to take over the world,

have robots everywhere, when really they're trying to tell you that the argument shouldn't be whether the robots are taking over the world. The argument should be, well, how can the machines help? How can we use the machines, you know, and not replace us? Right there. Robot. Egg freaking turning time.

Get out there. Make sure the temperature is right in the mud hut, too. I want to be in this air conditioning mud hut. Well, you go check. they don't have buildings in Egypt? No, I don't think they do. Don't think they do. So we're just finding out about a story coming from Australia now that happened a few years back

when apparently a wild pig got drunk and started a fight with a cow and then took off after a campsite, raided the campsite, ate all their food, found he was drunk out of his mind, went into the garbage can, started munching on everything. then he ran into the river and then passed out. So anytime that you have any kind of, uh, of those feral pigs running around your property, get them drunk,

get them drunk. They'll pick a fight with whatever other animal you got on the property. Leave out a couple of trash cans. Let them eat some food and they'll pass out. As soon as they pass out, then you can do whatever the heck you want with them. And I don't know if you've ever roasted up a big pig like that, but that's some good eat.

That's a real good eat. The drunk pigs are especially delicious. they're already primed for you right thank you the beer's already in the stream that's cooking that's good stuff we also now know that they found Texas A&M and

they were out you know they're looking all over here in Texas for you know all kinds of archaeological digs through the universities and we now know that they're calling it a hunter gatherer

ate an entire rattlesnake. Now think about that. Think of the time when you think to yourself, how did people figure out you shouldn't eat that? Or you should eat that. Or, man, let's eat that. That looks good. Well, they found the fossilized poop here in Texas

while they were working on this group project. And it didn't look like much, but it looks like a real skinny cow patty. but after they reconstructed it and it revealed the snake's bones, scales, and fang, and they realized they didn't have their hands on any just really old poop. They compared the fangs with a rattlesnake. So it means that humans were eating full-grown rattlesnakes some thousand years before the time that we thought people were started eating animals like that.

So we were, this is how dumb humans are. We've been eating full rattlesnakes for at least a thousand years before they thought we were. We are some smart beings, man, and always have been. Let's eat a rattlesnake. No mistake. So the World Health Organization has issued its first ever guidance for how much screen time that children under five should get. And I want to thank the World Health Organization

for finally getting involved in this because I've said all along, I wish the World Health Organization would tell me how to raise my children. Because I don't know what to do. I did it wrong. I didn't know what to do. Parents are obviously raising their children wrong,

and we need guidelines and advice from the United Nations Health Agency. Man, do we need that? Listen, I know that the American Academy of Pediatrics say that, you know, children should have very little screen time. And by that, I mean by watching screens, not being on the screen. Because if you think, if I want to put my kid on TV for more than an hour a day, I will. No, what they mean is just they're not supposed to watch the screens for more than an hour a day.

But I just want to thank them anyway, for real, because I mean, that means a lot that the, that the Who has gotten involved in telling me how to raise my children and how long I should let them watch anything on any device. It's very, very, very nice of them. You know how much we love trucking here on Chewing the Fat, big trucker fan? And it's about time I need to have another trucker show because I want to see how you guys are doing out there, you guys and gals. I want to see how it's going in with the new, you know,

with the new mandates and the new reporting structure. I want to see how it's going. I know that I was just reading an article about a new startup that is using the new technology to use your phones for some of your reporting capabilities. Now, you know you had to put in those special machines and you had to have the tracking devices and you still have to do the required paperwork. But now we are going to be able to use your phone for a lot of. of this. So you're going to be able to comply with the new regulations just over your phone, which I sounds good. I mean, I know the electronic logging apps, they're talking about, you know, trucking companies have installed these devices and all these trucks. And we talked

a little bit about that the last time I had the trucker show. But now we've got, if you have the capability of using your phone to do a lot of this, rather than, you know, you know, whatever bulky thing the government wants you to do, and it's probably still going to be bulky, but at least you'd be able to just use your phone and not have a special device installed. And you leave it to the government to make you have a special device installed into your truck to record stuff.

It's just ridiculous. But I'll be fascinated to see if any of you are still using this. Do you know about it? Is it coming? Does it help? Or, you know, stuff like that. Because I know that, you know, with the, closer we come to the availability of driverless trucks.

And we talked the other day about the drone truck drivers. And trucking is going to come under fire soon. And so we've got to do whatever we can to keep the truckers on the road and keep delivering things. That's a must. That's a must. Chewing the fat, I must have. Those grocery stores have got to be stocked, man. I want those truckers on the road.

Look, I don't think people understand how important the trucking business really is for our survival. 70%. I found some information for you. I'm going to help you with your survival. 70% of all freight moved in the U.S. from the food industry to health care is done by trucks. If trucks stopped, I mean, when I joked around about, you know, I want the grocery store stocked. Yeah. I do. I've seen what happens when storms happen and the supply chain is disrupted. But you're looking at the food industry,

healthcare, transportation, waste removal, retail, manufacturing, banking and finance. Some of those semis have cash in them? I may have to look for a new career.

Below is a time, okay, here we go. All right, below, I just want to read this because it talks about what happens

when trucks stop. In fact, this is, this could be a chewing of fat, I don't know, some sort of poem. What happens when trucking stops? I got this from the, from a TD Source website, if trucking stops. So a reading from TDSource.com. if trucking stops. In the first 24 hours,

delivery of medical supplies to the affected area will cease. Hospitals will run out of necessary supplies. Service stations will begin to run out of fuel. Manufacturers using just-in-time manufacturing will develop component shortages. U.S. mail and other package delivery will cease. automobile fuel availability and delivery will dwindle, leading to skyrocketing prices and long lines and gas pumps. In just two to three days,

food shortages will escalate, especially in the face of consumer hoarding and panic. Supplies of essentials like bottled water, powdered milk, and canned meat at major retailers will begin to disappear. Lord knows we don't want canned meat to disappear. ATMs will run out of cash, banks will be unable to process. transactions. Service stations will completely run out of fuel. Garbage will start piling up in urban and suburban areas. Container ships will sit idle in ports and rail transport will be disrupted, eventually coming to a standstill. In just one week, automobile travel will cease due to lack of fuel. Hospitals will begin to exhaust oxygen supplies. In just two weeks, clean water supply

will begin to run dry. By one month, the nation's cleanest water supply will be exhausted. You see the dangers and the horror they will happen if trucking stops.

I mean, I'm pretty sure that was worst case scenario, but it doesn't sound pretty. So I say blow your horn if you don't want trucking to stop. Yeah, that worked.