What's on my radio today in the background: Rockhead

[AzJames73]

MineralMan (97,661 posts)                                    https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029508409

What's on my radio today in the background:
Today, my background noise is radio traffic from a courier service in the Twin Cities of MN. Commerce appears to be happening at a brisk pace today. Products, parts, medical specimens and all sorts of other things are being transported around the metro area by people who are part of the current gig economy.

The dispatcher is dispatching and the drivers are whizzing to and from destinations, hoping to earn enough money to pay their bills, while driving vans and trucks leased from the courier service.

It's interesting. Over a few days of listening to this stuff in the background, I'm learning that the dispatcher controls the livelihood of all those folks. Some drivers are receiving many calls, while others are getting sent long distances for minor things. Tempers flare from time to time. Yesterday, I even heard one driver quit on the spot and telling the dispatcher to send someone to retrieve his van. He didn't like being sent clear across the metro area with one part for an HVAC company fixing an air conditioner. And so it goes.

I'm preferring this to the usual news feed from the local news/talk station

I was guessing Perry Como ? Rosemary Clooney ? Lawrence Welk ? Spike Jones and his City Slickers ? The Andrews Sisters ?

[SVPete]

I was guessing Perry Como ? Rosemary Clooney ? Lawrence Welk ? Spike Jones and his City Slickers ? The Andrews Sisters ?

I'm not sure why MM wants to hear the humming of the Trump economy, but ...

Other than Perry Como and Lawrence Welk, they're mostly before my time, but I'd easily take any of their era's music over modern rap-hop-crap.

[thundley4]

You can make good money doing the private carrier work.  One guy delivered a $20 bearing to our shop from a few hundred miles away and was paid over $500 for the trip. (Our customer was willing to pay to get their equipment fixed fast.)

[SVPete]

You can make good money doing the private carrier work.  One guy delivered a $20 bearing to our shop from a few hundred miles away and was paid over $500 for the trip. (Our customer was willing to pay to get their equipment fixed fast.)

Not knowing your business, when a customer has 10s or 100s of thousands of $$ of work on hold for a $20 part, paying a $500 delivery charge may result in 10s of thousands of $$ in profit.

[BadCat]

Heck, I once had a board for a computer system delivered to me in Germany by an F-15 from Lakenheath.

[SVPete]

Heck, I once had a board for a computer system delivered to me in Germany by an F-15 from Lakenheath.

Did you manage to hang up the phone before it arrived?

[thundley4]

Not knowing your business, when a customer has 10s or 100s of thousands of $$ of work on hold for a $20 part, paying a $500 delivery charge may result in 10s of thousands of $$ in profit.

I rewind electric motors, and yes, down time can run into $1000's/hour for some customers. We have customers from all the states surrounding Illinois.

[DLR Pyro]

I'm not sure why MM wants to hear the humming of the Trump economy, but ...

Yeah, that was my thought as I read thru his drivel.  He was describing a thriving economy that has been made great again thanks to Trump.

[Old n Grumpy]

Mineralman, what you are listening to is people WORKING for a living, paying taxes to support the freeloaders in our society.