Joe is old enough to remember the gas shortages of the 1970s. But in his state of dementia, he's forgotten.
Posted on 07/03/2022 5:28:08 AM PDT by Browns Ultra Fan
Hey, I thought Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the US Transportation Secretary, was supposed to unclog the supply-chain crisis! Instead, we get heartaches on heartaches as diesel prices rise 118% under Biden AND now the bottle-necks may get a lot worse.
A US Supreme Court decision that could force California’s 70,000 truck owner-operators to stop driving is set to create another choke point in already-stressed West Coast logistics networks, a truckers’ organization said.
“Gasoline has been poured on the fire that is our ongoing supply-chain crisis,” the California Trucking Association said in a statement following the Supreme Court’s decision to deny a judicial review of a decision of a lower court, a process known as certiorari.
“In addition to the direct impact on California’s 70,000 owner-operators who have seven days to cease long-standing independent businesses, the impact of taking tens of thousands of truck drivers off the road will have devastating repercussions on an already fragile supply chain, increasing costs and worsening runaway inflation,” the CTA said.
The association asked the Supreme Court for a review of a case challenging California’s Assembly Bill 5, a law that sets out three tests to determine whether a worker is an employee entitled to job benefits or an independent contractor who isn’t. The trucking industry relies on contractors, and has fought to be exempt from state regulations for years because of federal law.
With few exceptions, the relationship between independent truckers and their carriers, brokers and shippers will be governed by the tests.
As if US consumers aren’t getting crushed by rising prices already. In response to the Covid outbreak, The Fed slammed its foot on the money accelerator along with Federal government stimulus. Throw in Biden’s anti-drilling executive orders, and we have a nightmare.
Let’s get ready to stumble.
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Brandon don’t care. He’s at home in Delaware soaking up the sun and surf.
Brandon is barely sentient...
Trucking companies have been screwing drivers by classifying them as independent contractors for years.
While the headline suggests this redounds to the Supreme Court's responsibility, it doesn't. California's Democrats have caused this mess, and trucking as both an industry and service to businesses in California will take a hit. ALL courtesy of California Democrats.
California. Democrats. California. Democrats.
Isn’t the “Big One” long over due? It would be nice to see California break off and SINK INTO THE OCEAN. Would tomorrow be too soon?
Pete Buttigieg is far too busy sticking foreign objects up his keister, including his head, to be worry about his job.
It’s Dementiajoe’s Liberal World Order puppetmasters that are the problem.... as well as the people who voted for ChiComjoe.
I’m not a spring chicken.
In the last few months I have seen more tandem trucks on the highways than I have ever seen before in my life.
If you work for someone other than yourself, prepare to be screwed.
That’s life.
“Trucking companies have been screwing drivers by classifying them as independent contractors for years.”
This
Joe is old enough to remember the gas shortages of the 1970s. But in his state of dementia, he's forgotten.
Brandon doesn’t know… he literally doesn’t know what day of the week it is…
He’s a puppet
I think the California Democrats ARE the "big one." The old equation will always hold fast. "If this, then that."
I would love to see trucking grind to a halt for just a few days in California, if only to demonstrate that fantasy is not reality.
If this, then that.
California. Democrat. California. Democrat.
And yet nobody forces them to work for peanuts.
And I say this as a trucker
Most are fine with the freedom they get in exchange for a few benefits. Now watch rates go even higher and you will the one paying.
If you are an out of state contractor, I don’t see how California could keep you out.
I imagine that if you are out of state and have your own business, California can’t interfere with California companies contracting with out of state businesses for transportation services.
I would expect it only impact California Businesses contracting directly with California Contractors.
Very misleading. Its woke-leftists in California who want to regulate and control independent drivers. All SCOTUS did was say, that the law is generally within california constitutional power to do so.
Stop doing business in California. Set up terminals just outside the state, drive the load to the terminal, and let California pick it up from there. Same thing, different direction, for outbound.
Buttplug is way too busy with all the raciest roads
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