Every Container Box on a ship has to be loaded on to a truck Chassis. There is a severe shortage of chassis’ at the Ports.
Most Chassis are made in China. Clueless Joe promised to lift the tariffs on truck Chassis in China. Joe didn’t remove the tariffs - the Chinese are mad and won’t ship any Chassis as long as the tariffs are in place.
Also, for the Boxes we unload - there is no where to store them. The Rail yards are full. This is what you get when everything is imported from China.
Where did all the trucks go? Did half of our trucks get scrapped during the pandemic? Did half of the drivers die of COVID? The government payments to sit on your ass are over.
Every explanation for this problem has another upstream cause. And that upstream cause itself has another upstream cause.
It’s almost as if this is like putting Europe and Japan back together after WW II.