Posted on 01/22/2022 9:34:09 PM PST by george76
It has only just begun..
Effective today, all U.S. and Canadian cross-border truckers must show their vaccination passport in order to deliver their loads. Approximately 15% of Canadian truckers and approximately 50% of U.S. truckers are not vaccinated. The logistics and distribution of food supplies into and out of Canada are collapsing.
Pay attention to the scale of impact in this example. It will only take a few days for this to go from a problem to a full-blown crisis of epic proportions.
CALGARY – “For the product to be right there and not being able to touch it, we’ve never seen it before in the 12 years that we’ve been open,” he said. “The U.S. is full of product, and we just can’t get it up here.”
The produce warehouse in Northeast Calgary routinely received two or three trucks a day to restock their shelves. Now, when they are attempting to import 80 to 90 per cent of their stock from the U.S., they are lucky to get one truck every two or three days.
[…] This has led to shortages in staples their customers have been accustomed to relying on them for like grapes, strawberries and citrus. When they can get some of those items, the price has gone up exponentially. Grapes that used to be 99 cents a pound are now running $4.99 a pound.
With the trucks Freestone can secure, they are focusing on vegetable deliveries, and the cost of those trucks has also skyrocketed. The average truck out of California pre-pandemic cost Freestone $6,000 to 7,000, now it’s costing them $9,000 to 11,000.
[…] Nash said the backlog is already starting to accumulate at the border, estimating about 100 loads a day, noting the Coutts crossing handles about 800 loads a day.
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Why don’t they just hand off the trailers at the border? Then the drivers don’t have to cross.
In large, competitive and price-sensitive industries like commodities - and trucking, market pricing is always set at the latest spot deal. It doesn’t take more than a shift of 5% of supply to trigger a huge reaction
Oops, did they not know this would happen?
I’ve seen specific comments by truckers who cross the border & know the actual crossings & they say there is zero room to do that at the border - not workable.
All part of the plan. “You’ll own nothing and be happy”.
Self imposed limp-noodleness has consequences.
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All part of the plan. “You’ll own nothing and be happy”.
@ george76
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Actually, someone still has to cross, but what it would do is restrict travel into the country.
They’d have to just go fat enough into the country to a loading area, unload, go right back and then someone can pick up the trailer after the person is gone. I’m sure the paperwork can be managed somehow.
They had to have known, which can only mean this was deliberate.
LET'S GO BRANDON TRUE-DOLT!
Trailer hand-off was discussed on another article a day or two ago. Basically, crossing sites are highly congested and there is no physical space to do that.
Ping.
How would a driver get it the few feet across the border without entering the foreign country? A Canadian driver would have to move it across the border or an American driver would, and das ist verboten from either country. Someone on another thread said that there are no locations to make staging areas to drop and pickup trailers at any of the border crossings in any case.
Shoot, MOST of the truck stops in my area are congested (one new one isn’t) and this is not even a high density trucking area compared to many.
I can imagine what the situation at the border crossing sites is like.
I suppose this should free up some truckers and some goods for deliveries inside the US? Fine with me!
This at a time when Britain, Ireland, Spain, France, etc are getting rid of all the lockdown measures. Even Trudeau’s father wasn’t this big of a moron.
Going to really hurt us Alaskans, store shelves have already shown signs of a shortage. I couldn’t even drive through Canada to pick up my nearly blind father in law in Haines, AK to drive him back for a VA medical appointment. The only reasonable way to get there is by driving and that means transitioning through Canada. He drove himself which is scary to have him on the road for a 10 hours. I hope the protest make a difference.
“How would a driver get it the few feet across the border without entering the foreign country?”
Push it. Seriously. Rig up a bulldozer with some big rubber pads and push the trailer the last 20 feet across the border.
Of course only after hosing down the trailer down with 409 and bleach to kill any little covids that might be on the hook ups and back door.
Hmm. I wonder if they make the trailer sit for 24 hours or whatever they say it takes for covid to “die” before they unload it?
All the bureaucratic brainiacs are yielding their product - Chaos.
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