How to Explain Cabotage

[RAINDOG]

Next time you have to explain interstating, maybe this will help? Sung in the key of "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys:

I can’t ship it, I know you planned it
I’mma set it straight, its state to state
I can’t stand sittin; when I’m in here
Cause your short/long hauls ain’t so legal dear
So while the broker sits and wonder’s why
Why can’t this f*ckin’ truck, be sent state side?
I can’t haul, just because
I’m telling y’all it’s cabotage

So, stop, se-, lling listen up, what you pay ain’t nothing’
They’ll shut me down with a push of their button
But, o’er and out and I’m gone
I’ll tell you now, We are Canadi-on!

'Cause what you see, a truck you can’t get
And we can bet, so don't ask me for a rate yet
Scheming for my truck, no just because
I'm trying to tell you now, it's cabotage

Comply
Our trucks all now abide the law

Listen all y'all, it's called cabotage
Listen all y'all, it's called cabotage
Listen all y'all, it's called cabotage
Listen all y'all, it's called cabotage

I can’t ship it, can’t even plan it
I’mma set it straight, if it’s state to state
I can’t do your load when I'm in this place
I got provincial plates you can’t keep us in the states
The law’s opaque can’t get rid of my flannel
I'm Donny Brook when I fly off the handle
please listen to me, it’s no ‘cause
You're speaking of a thing, called cabotage

 

[TransAction]

lol, I do the same sort of thing, I sing this when freight or a truck goes missing, it's a spoof on the Sheepdogs song "I don't know":

Never have I heard
A more disturbing word
Holdin' my freight hostage,
I never felt so quite disturbed
Where is my freight?you say, I don't know
It was to deliver yesterday, you say I don't know
Been lookin' for your truck you say;' , I don't know
Would somebody please, help me!

Lookin' back at me
There's more than mystery
The dispatcher told me
Your freight's Ancient history, yeah
I call you for an update, you say, I don't know
I've been waiting for the evening now, you say I don't know
I think you've double brokered it, I don't know
Would somebody please HELP ME!

 

[RAINDOG]

lol, I do the same sort of thing, I sing this when freight or a truck goes missing, it's a spoof on the Sheepdogs song "I don't know":

Never have I heard
A more disturbing word
Holdin' my freight hostage,
I never felt so quite disturbed
Where is my freight?you say, I don't know
It was supposed to pick up by now, you say I don't know
Been lookin' for your truck you say;' , I don't know
Would somebody please, help me!

Lookin' back at me
There's more than mystery
The dispatcher told me
Your freight's Ancient history, yeah
I call you for an update, you say, I don't know
I've been waiting for the evening now, you say I don't know
I think you've double brokered it, I don't know
Would somebody please HELP ME!

Thank god for music to keep us sane!