Truckloads Of Goldfish

The 7-year-old grandson has developed a high-decibel affinity for the children's card game, Go Fish.  Given his mastery of the arcane Pokemon universe, this is a little like having Rafael Nadal playing Ping-Pong in the basement.  His highlights of the game, another example of being almost right, consists of responding "Gold Fish!" when the surrender of a given card is requested.  Sorry, Pepperidge Farms, the phrase has nothing to do with your very fine snacks.

As more truckload (and other) carriers confess that their constrained capacities are being reserved for those shippers who were fair in their dealings during the worst of recent economic hard times, I began to speculate about how many (formerly) tough price negotiators are having to hear their carriers tell them to "Go Fish!" when their load availability exceeds hauling capacity availability.

The grandson has also mastered the distressing ploy of telling his doting grandfather to "Gold Fish!" when he has the desired card, but wants to husband it for unknown purposes of his own.  You don't suppose that a carrier would tell a selected shipper to "Go Fish!" when he wanted to hold on to some available capacity for future use by a shipper with whom it had been much easier to do business with, do you?