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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One notices a similar architecture to the lib game. In NHYC Adams was saying violence on NYC subways and such required a federal response.
If trucking is disrupted in California BY CALIFORNIA and any one has the clarity to see it, then some kind of tipping point will have been reached politically. If not, I agree that a different tipping point will be reached.
What seems certain is the old saw holds: If this, then that.
California/ Democrats. California. Democrats.
With respect, I think this logically fallacious. Almost ALL the politicians have to return home, to their states and districts where they live. Where they have to campaign and win elections. Locally. Locally and before tyranny can fully erupt, the politics of this will change dramatically. Take heart.
In this age of the app it would seem dead simple to meet that definition of independent. Simply set up an exchange and take jobs from whomever you want involving any number of companies.
“Grocery stores do not get restocked, folks have a weeks worth of food many have less, no food in the big cities “
One state depends on other for its livelihood. California does something. I here in Tennessee don’t get food. The Federal Government might have a role in preventing this sort of thing.
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.
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That has been in place since Kali put in the DEF requirement.
Anyway we can boycott California and not cause the good people harm?
I won’t be donating to any California earthquake relief BS. No trucks no relief. Dig yourself out.
“Global Peril...?”
I thought Nancy Pelosi was the only one who drunkposted...
Gates, Soros, the WEF, don't much care about your electeds.
The population control crowd can manage Tyranny just fine without them.
With the shutdown I'm projecting, Constitutional governance is NOT part of the plan.
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