The Earth falls off flat at the California border for me - my truck/trailer will not ever cross that border due to their idiotic laws. I could go on and on about that state - and I have no idea how any trucking company can make money there!
Thanks for posting this. And it’s good to see solid, investigative journalism for a change. Kudos to Sundance, the article’s author.
People need to flood Gavin Newsom’s office with phone calls and emails demanding an emergency temporary waiving of the emission standards changes and any other COVID mandate regulations that are artificially restricting the ability of the country to truck in backlogged shipments.
This is a national emergency that is entirely self inflicted and should be suspended until critical supplies of food and other consumables are returned to normal levels.
Perhaps states could sue California for their lost sales tax revenue.
” Heavy-duty diesel trucks in California must meet 2010 engine emissions standards or use diesel particulate filters to reduce the diesel particulates emissions into the atmosphere by 85% or more.”
Not many “heavy duty diesel trucks” have an engine more than 10 years old. Even though they can run for over a million miles with rebuilds.
Nuremberg executions seems like a relevant and timely topic.
As I noted, the issue started becoming visible several years ago when the California Air Resource Board (CARB) announced the new environmental regulations. Several massive multinational corporations, with specifically in-tune supply and logistics operations, immediately recognized the issue they would face if 50+ percent of the trucking fleet would be blocked from entering California ports.
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The corporate press will *never* report the reason for the supply chain breakdown as it goes against the global warming hysteria -or- it shows the real world effect of caving to the hysteria. They’d prefer to destroy the economy before doing anything sane.
California costs us all and it costs us a lot.
I ahve been watching the La Palma events hoping for the massive landslide so many are all atwitter about. Why? Because it could wipe out the East Coast. The only problem with that I see is that it does not get the West Coast as well. We would be better off without both of them.
The Democrats know what is causing the problem.
China won’t let them fix it.
California is an Enemy State, almost a nation in its own right. They act like it anyway.
California and the Watermelon greens are a national menace.
I see a violation of the Inter-state Commerce Clause.
California laws are having a detrimental impact on the economies of other states.
I wonder if anyone has the balls to sue?
Don’t truck drivers have to time out after 10-12 hours of work? I don’t see how they can run the port 24 hours a day without doubling the number of truck drivers. But I could be mistaken.
I drive highway 58 which runs through southern VA to Norfolk. It is a major route for container trucks
I have traveled it twice a week for about 15 years and I noticed recently that container trucks have increased in numbers substantially.
Reading this story, I understand why.
It also is easy to understand that the transportation cost are going up. Without actually measuring the distance, I suspect the distance ships travel is doubled and the cost of transportation has to be paid for the return trip as well.
Time for sea change. Route all inbound ocean cargo to TX and FL ports. Maybe SC and GA. Stay way from CA, OR, and WA.
I thought China had a lock on the Long Beach port. If the bottleneck is hurting China, can’t it put pressure on Newsom?
Let’s all hold hands, and if we wish REALLY hard, those containers will all magically go to where they are supposed to go!
That would have been done by the career swamp-creatures in the Trump EPA.
If they are all wearing masks, won’t that block any soot? I mean they block viruses which are much smaller.
This is awesome! Thank you for posting.