Truckers, port workers vent as supply,chain
frustration mounts: 'A lot of us are willing
to work'
Yahoo! Finance,
by
Dani Romero
Original Article
Posted By: Kafka2,
10/27/2021 1:41:18 PM
The great global supply chain crisis of 2021 — which has ensnared groceries, holiday shopping and everything in between — has bottlenecked West Coast ports, and drawn the involvement of the White House to address it.(snip)“There's a lot of us that are willing to work,” Carlos Rameriz, a 25-year truck driving veteran, told Yahoo Finance in an interview.
Speaking from a nearby area where trucks have idled and multiple chassis have sat unattended, Rameriz blasted a reported driver shortage as “the biggest excuse,” and simply “not true.”(snip)“There are truck drivers that come in and are waiting for a chassis and the company does not allow us to give them it”
You need to be part of a big union trucking company that got a reach around from California, with a new truck. Otherwise, no cargo for you.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 10/27/2021 1:48:21 PM (No. 958989)
Transportation Secretary Pete "Bizarre" Buttiegig and his wife/husband, Chasten, will get around to examining the situation once their toenail polish dries. Could be another 2 month paternity leave.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
subal 10/27/2021 1:48:39 PM (No. 958991)
The problem is the recent trucking regulations imposed by the democratic CA state legislature!
All the 'know nothings' in Sacramento want to do is pass a law in their names to support their reelection plans!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Kafka2 10/27/2021 2:05:22 PM (No. 959008)
It appears a truck driver shortage is not the bottleneck. Instead, the problem is with the crane operators, top handler drivers, and trans drivers “cutting the work.” The California ports have a low rating for operating efficiency.
Adding a third shift turns out to be a knee-jerk reaction that does not address the problem. If Mayor Pete Buttigieg could not get the potholes fixed in his city streets, he doesn't have the smarts to fix this problem.
A possible solution is to reroute shipping to other more efficient US ports. If the California ports start losing business, they might get their act together.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
smokincol 10/27/2021 3:14:51 PM (No. 959063)
anything any over-the-road driver I met in my past, only wanted to drive and nothing else. it is cruel to see that they are being used as a political pawn in this game of diapers versus the people of the United States of America. demcommies have no conscience and there's nothing democratic about the democrat party
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Birddog 10/27/2021 3:36:22 PM (No. 959078)
RE: Mobilizing the Nat Guard?
To do WHAT??
Any Nat Guard members that are certified/licensed Big Rig drivers are currently driving, taking them from their current dispatched Jobs and forcing them to work for "Deployment Rates" is not gonna solve anything at all. Even the Nat. Guard members who are certified/Licensed Crane operators likely have never operated a container gantry. There are verrrry few of them, and any guard member pulled from a currently operating crane just moves the slowdown to a different place.
RE: Stacking rules.
There is not enough laydown space at the ports because containers that traveled here stacked ten-twenty high are not allowed to be stacked on the ground more than 2 high...they travel on TRAINS stacked 2 high. Is it because they are afraid the Santa Ana winds will knock them over?? Allowing 3 high would free up 30% more space, 4 high frees up half the yards acreage to stage twice as many containers.
RE: Cal certified Trucks.
IF they still claim there is a truck shortage? Waive the Inspection/cert rules, Invite longhaulers from across the country to come and grab a load. Pay a deadhead/Premium, waive the California Fuel Taxes and highway fees. Keep in mind the 23,000 containers on just ONE of the Mega Max Container ships creates a line of containers 174miles long. If the 70 ships waiting are "Panamx" carrying only around 10,000 containers? That is a 6000 MILE LONG train of containers. It would fill the entire highway from LA-NY BOTH directions.
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Peppermint Pinhead already had to walk that nonsense back about the National Guard, #6. They do not have any such authority to Federalize NG troops to drive trucks and work docks. Self-inflicted wounds and stupidity are not emergencies that qualify.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/27/2021 5:18:16 PM (No. 959167)
Blame the tyrants that are pretending to be California government for this.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 10/27/2021 5:57:35 PM (No. 959200)
I know it’s frustrating #6, but railroads can’t stack containers more than two high because of existing clearances (tunnels, overpasses, etc.). If they could stack them higher, they would. Their primary competition is the trucking industry.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Birddog 10/27/2021 6:11:51 PM (No. 959215)
While "Mother Nature" laughs...40inches of snow in the Sierras, Donner pass has MILES of trucks backed up on both sides, heaviest/deepest snow in HISTORY for October, Ski resorts prepping for earliest season opener...ever! Fire danger now near zero though.
"Global Warming"
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/27/2021 9:10:16 PM (No. 959315)
I smell Crooked Politicians, Unions and Bad Laws...all things Democraps specialize in!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
red1066 10/27/2021 9:39:32 PM (No. 959327)
This is an interstate commerce issue. Any state law that interferes with the transport of goods between states in not allowed. When California passed a law that interferes with interstate commerce, then this becomes a Constitutional issue, and that goes to the Supreme Court to rule on.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
cor-vet 10/27/2021 10:24:58 PM (No. 959349)
When Boss Xi gets tired of his cheap Chinese trash sitting on boats and not on store shelves being sold, Dementia Joe will get the word (and his cut) and the ports will open. We can probably do without most of their cheap junk anyway. For must have items, Eastern and Gulf Coast ports are open and working.
I curious, are old tank trucks being allowed to carry gas into Kalifornia?
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