The High End Mover

I picked up, from MSP airport, a self-employed owner of a small trucking firm that moves wealthy people from coast to coast. He was flying into town to pick up a tractor/trailer load of furniture and haul it to New York City, his base of operations.

He is discreet and provides great service, so his word-of-mouth reputation is growing in elite circles.

He told me that people of means are buying bigger houses and accumulating more stuff. For them to have enough worldly possessions to fill a 55 foot trailer is rather common.

In recent years he had one household in the Southwest that required three such tractor/trailer rigs to move their worldly possessions.

This whole phenomenon just reminds one of how blessed we are in America, still, and how a very high standard of living, in comparison to so many countries, keeps rising, and that becomes the new normal.