Did you miss last year? That was a recession. I stopped going back and forth with you last time because of the INGSOC comment and now I’m going to call your ******** here. I have plenty of guys between 18 and 25 who work their ass off, every day. As a matter of fact, I have a whole job with two crews where there are two people on the job who are over the age of 30 running pipe 21’ under the ground with the other 3 man crew running 400’ of 6” force main daily. The two guys are a 41 year old site superintendent and the other is a 48 year old hoe hand who is in the process of teaching two younger guys how to dig deep, use slide rails and drive boxes. The two foremen are 28 & 24, respectively.
I don’t see dark clouds, I see artificially low wages and lack of opportunity for young people. Maybe once the people in their 50s & 60s pull their head out of their ass they’ll recognize it’s time to give these people a chance. But I’m sure you, like many think I don’t know anything, I’m just a 34 year old business owner.
ANYWAY…
You don’t need a semi to move a 10,000 lb machine. Matt moves his skidder and excavator on a tag trailer behind his dump truck and he’s at elevation and runs steep grades. I move smaller equipment, and a 299 counts, behind an F250 or F350 on a PJ trailer pulling the Appalachians and I used to haul around Allegheny mountains and the Cascades. If you go to an excavator, anything over 30,000 then yeah you need a semi. An 80 or 130 moves just fine behind a dump truck and compliments a big skid steer very well.
Honestly, man, with as negative an outlook as you have I’d probably run away from going into business, especially for a 10 year setup.