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California Drove Truckers Out of Business.
Now Store Shelves Are Empty

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Posted By: Trapper, 10/23/2021 6:46:22 PM

After a long cross-country flight, I made it out of LAX and into an Uber. I wasn’t in the mood to talk, but the driver was. And hearing that I was a journalist, he wanted to tell me a story. I’ve heard a lot of stories over the years, but this may have been the most important one I let go. [snip] California Democrats and their environmentalist special interests had set out to crush the state’s ports and trucking industry.

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The problem in California ports has nothing to do with unloading ships, but not having enough California regulation compliant trucks to move the containers out of the ports. The backlog is entirely government created.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: TJ54 10/23/2021 7:05:57 PM (No. 955562)
The reason we call Californians libtards
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 10/23/2021 7:14:50 PM (No. 955571)
FTA: the punchline -- "The resulting disaster is likely to accelerate the ongoing shift of shipping from California ports. Democrats imposed their green shakedown not only on truckers, but on shipping. With companies moving to Texas, Houston was already becoming a more appealing alternative. It’s now at capacity as everyone is looking for alternatives to the California economic disaster area." Cool. Just to hell with California and their rabid anti-business insanity. Houston and Florida should reap a windfall of more business from this. Port Everglades, Port of Miami, Canaveral, Tampa, Jax and Pensacola have capabilities....and I am sure would be happy to increase their existing capacities rapidly. The Mississippi has tremendous underutilized barge traffic capability. Offloading from container ships to barges would be the issue, not sure if that is at all "a thing" now. But it sure could be for a smart entrepreneur.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 10/23/2021 7:19:12 PM (No. 955576)
If you don’t want to read the article, I’ll summarize: let’s go, New California! (That state is so hosed)
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Hermit_Crab 10/23/2021 7:32:51 PM (No. 955589)
One might say something about "The law of Unintended Consequences".... But I believe this to be fully intended.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JL80863 10/23/2021 7:35:43 PM (No. 955590)
Their new motto: "We are nuts but our air is still filthy"
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Reply 6 - Posted by: RedWhite&Blue2 10/23/2021 7:40:04 PM (No. 955596)
You MUST buy a NEW truck every three years or else Sieg Frickin' Heil California is rotten to the core with evil stooge idiot dirty rats elected over and over...
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bad-hair 10/23/2021 7:45:41 PM (No. 955599)
Port of Houston is ticking right along among others on the Gulf coast. No bare shelves here. California, you had your chance and now you're stuck with Newsom. Merry Christmas.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 10/23/2021 8:20:01 PM (No. 955619)
Lefties in Kalifornia, enjoy the empty shelves. In Colorado, ours are full thanks to Houston ports.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: MickTurn 10/23/2021 8:21:08 PM (No. 955621)
It appears Californication leaders are Californicating their citizens...have you LibTards Had enough yet, or are you waiting for your house in the Fema Camp?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Blackbird 10/23/2021 9:52:22 PM (No. 955669)
This needs to be publicized far and wide. Most Americans are totally unaware of the reason for this supply chain crisis. Entirely self inflicted thanks to liberal idiots in California.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Kumoan 10/23/2021 9:54:18 PM (No. 955671)
When all of California's imports must be trucked INTO California after being imported through capitalist ie: functioning ports, it's only reasonable to tack on a 10-20% Comrade tax at the state line. Mind you, as they approach Venezuela's standard of living, they won't be buying much. Spices that complement rat etc.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Jen103143 10/23/2021 9:59:33 PM (No. 955676)
So California didn’t want trucks polluting the area in So Cal? Well, now the diesel fumes from the ship’s is the new pollution!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Maggie2u 10/23/2021 10:28:38 PM (No. 955693)
Good point poster #12 and because of that I wonder when the libtards will outlaw fossil fuel container cargo ships and make them all switch to sails?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Nimby 10/23/2021 11:05:46 PM (No. 955704)
Isolate CA for their ineptitude. Move the ports to other states- FL, TX and other places .
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Reply 15 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 10/23/2021 11:15:00 PM (No. 955707)
Want to know what's in store for our country? Just watch California.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: pensom2 10/24/2021 2:25:38 AM (No. 955744)
Of course, Houston and other Gulf ports can pick up some of the slack. But the cost will be dear: running all those enormous container ships a few thousand miles further, including through the Panama Canal, will add costs to every import brought in. There's inflation for you. All because of the lefty Sacramento fools.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Strike3 10/24/2021 3:06:57 AM (No. 955750)
"The red-to-red pipeline has savaged our economy" Greenfield's best sentence. California has gone too far to reverse the regulations and fix this, doubling down on stupid works that way.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Trigger2 10/24/2021 6:56:07 AM (No. 955808)
Californians are pure stupid to keep putting commie demonrats back in office. Haven't they had enough already? You'd think they wouldn't have been so stupid to reeelect Newscom. I suspect voter fraud. What about you? Will Californians be perfectly happy when the entire state shuts down because of demonrat policies or is it the free money demonrats keep shelling out?
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Reply 19 - Posted by: coldoc 10/24/2021 7:14:22 AM (No. 955820)
It's too bad punta colnett hasn't gotten built. It would bypass the insane asylum completely with a rail link direct to Az. You cannot have a yacht shipped via dockwise to california. Florida, Canada, sure. Though the owner removes (unloads) his boat offshore, the crooked longshoremen want to be paid the tonnage. As far as the east coast goes, many of the new container ships are too large to transit the panama canal.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: homefry 10/24/2021 7:56:32 AM (No. 955842)
liberal weenies! Why dont someone just step on them?
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Oldenoughtoknowbetter 10/24/2021 8:45:06 AM (No. 955883)
So now they have to order from Amazon and have multiple deliveries? Are those vehicles all electric? Make trips to neighboring states and raid their supplies? Have relatives ship things to them by USPS which is so fouled up (more vehicles) ? Just how ARE people getting what they need? Remember, CA is first in line to breath the increasing pollution coming from China.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: red1066 10/24/2021 11:17:06 AM (No. 955999)
This issue could be corrected immediately by the feds. This is an interstate commerce issue, and the feds have control over that. No state can interfere with the free movement of goods and services. That the feds have not moved on this, is another example of where the Biteme administration has failed and is not following federal law. The supreme court may have to step in and rule against California's attempt to control truck activity.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Penney 10/24/2021 3:53:25 PM (No. 956266)
Now the entire country is experiencing the power such, 'bottlenecks,' as this one can be abused by micro-managers, forcing suffering throughout the entire country. This is a near perfect parody for all to see of the fallacy presented by central planning bottlenecks. Another old wise adage comes to mind,. ''Never put all the eggs in one basket!'' ...Socialists want us to forget that one.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Strike3 10/24/2021 4:27:06 PM (No. 956302)
Karma dictated that the voters who elected lefty idiots in California should feel the pain directly. Karma was right. We need to pile on by not buying anything made or filmed in California. It won't take long for them to fix themselves.
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