On an earlier thread, another Freeper responded that it’s not just fertilizer. Union Pacific claims to be short handed.
But Black Conservative Patriot, on youtube, has a video up reporting fires at multiple food processing plants for the last 3 months all occurring on Wednesday or Thursday.
Without a sense of how many fires normally occur, can’t say if it’s something or not.
Interesting.
Capacity issues. Railroads don’t turn down paying customers just because.
This is not specific to fertilizer. There is a shipping disruption across the board on trains.
I don’t know about all the fires but the one in Oregon at the organic place was only their HQ and admin building and not production or storage according to local news.
Gateway Pundit loves their clickbait but there is usually far more to the story than the Hoft’s represent in their catchy headlines.
They often omit key facts or data or play the leftwing media game of taking an incomplete pull quote without context. They also steal the ideas of others using someone elses work with a summary and catchy headline.
I am not a fan and while they sometimes are in front of a story I usually seek out the original source or remain skeptical until further information is available. Your mileage may vary.
No wonder, Obama, Soros, Schwab.. canceled American pipeline construction - the first day of xiden’s installation
Three of the major North American railroads(UP, BNSF & CN)all have had capacity issues for the last several months.
The CN’s problems started around the time of the floods in BC in November. They continue to short empty flatbed carloads to sawmills and OSB mills all across Canada. This has resulted in multiple manufactures having to reduce production to 3 day work weeks or taking 2week shut downs.
This has also been the case with the BNSF railroad ever since last November. There seems to be some type of Union slowdown affecting the movement across their whole system.
The UP rr has actually been the best supplier of railcars to the sawmills in my industry recently.
The CPRS seems to be moving traffic without many issues.
To the best of my knowledge the NS and CSXT are not having any issues.
ALL of these railroads reduced capacity during covid. People retired and like every other company in the US, they have struggled to hire new people.
Short handed? Open the border even wider by offering an incentive of $10k for anyone from anywhere. Freebies for everyone! If 3 of them apply at Union Pacific, it’d be worth it.
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