If the government ran everything it would be so much “better”.
In short, government, democrat party led government, created this major problem and now demands people vote once again for the democrat taliban party so they can use more government to fix the major problem that the same government created.
democrat taliban party voters are simply....not smart.
I am from the government, I here to help.
We need to hire Johnny Friendly to kick some butt in the Longshoreman Union.
Atlas shrugging?
They keep playing up the new $100 per day fine for containers at the ports like it’s actually going to be a magical fix for all the Stupid the State has done.
It will make things even worse at the ports and is going to be wild to watch it play out
Canada's CPPIB to buy Ports America from Oaktree to further infrastructure push
Watchdog raises concern about Canadian pension investments in China
...the ChiComs.
Did the smoke police also ban the movie Convoy from showing in their state due to Claude Aikens’ truck smoking. Just asking, seems logical for them.
That attitude has not changed, but the attitude of industries not dominated by monopolies or oligopolies has. Trucking is only the latest example of such an industry.
now, lets reframe this. California is doing within its own borders what it has a right to as a state.
I actually support California in their independence.
Call me a kook. But, california is now a confederate state. And I still believe the government has no business telling California what to do anymore than the fed government telling the CSA what to do.
Get over california and let it rot itself and find a way to get your goods from china thru another route
It would take a while, but rail to Ehenberg, AZ, to a container handling facility would eliminate trucks in CA. Obviously infrastructure on both ends would be necessary. There may even be a method to move rail and containers by way of built in conveyor as opposed to locomotives. Constant motion. Drop the container into the conduit and funnel it east.
At its root, this is a container chassis problem. There simply isn’t enough chassis equipment at the ports for the drayage truckers to move the containers.
Every time Biden talks about jobs, it seems to always be “good paying union jobs”. I wonder if the supply chain problems are like the vaccine mandates. You must be jabbed to get a job and also you must also be in a union to get a job.
The one trucker I know fairly well made exactly that call. He refuses to own/drive a newer "emissions truck" (think DEF) and thus simply does not run into CA.
This fee the CA taliban is considering charging. Is that $100 a day for ships that are not even unloading? Even if it is just for ships taking up dock space, how is that their fault? If the ship is stuck because unloading is slow... As I understand it, ships don't make money sitting in port. Their owners/operators want them loaded/unloaded and moving, ASAP. All this additional fee would seem to be doing is generating a little more money for the CA taliban and providing yet another dis-incentive for businesses to have anything to do with CA.
We need to manufacture what we need in the USA but build NOTHING in California.
This sounds good but from what I’ve heard the problem at the ports isn’t a shortage of trucks. In fact, there are lots of complaints from both truckers and residents about the backup of trucks waiting to load.
How about this? The exact cause is because the Dems paid workers more money to stay home than to work and illegal immigrants driving down wages.
toss in the cost of diesel fuel and constant rona testing.....
Remember what President Reagan said was the most dangerous words in history of mankind: “Hello, we are from the federal government and we’re here to help!!!!” I completely agreed with him back then and still do all these 30-some odd years later.
There is a bigger problem looming which no one is mentioning : with the slowness of the unloading, fewer containers are returning to ports of origin making a future bottleneck ; no containers, no shipping.