Dear Reader, What’s one of the highest-paying jobs in Australia today? Surprisingly, a truck driver. Thanks to a ‘driver supply crunch’, trucking is currently one of the most in-demand careers in the country. I just saw a handful of trucking companies offer as much as $150,000 per year for drivers. That’s roughly twice the median salary in Australia! We’ve even gone as far as to recruit drivers from New Zealand. But while the shortage is good news for aspiring truck drivers, it spells disaster for the rest of us. As Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn puts it (emphasis added): ‘In Sydney alone there are 25,000 truck trips a week that do our food supply. If you turn that supply off, it’s not a matter of having to import some product, your way of life stops.’ It’s not just food. Medicines, cars, construction supplies, even vital services like garbage collection will be affected. And that’s just the beginning. World-renowned geopolitical analyst Jim Rickards reveals how this trucking crisis could cripple our economy — and ruin your way of life — in 2024. Read about it in his research briefing: Silence of the Trucks. Regards, James Woodburn, Publisher, Fat Tail Investment Research |