Posted on 10/31/2021 4:40:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Democrats are pretending COVID is the entire problem, but the issue is also California’s cockamamie environmental and employment laws.
I’ve lived in California for nearly 50 years, certainly long enough to know the state is wacko. It’s become a self-immolating mess, with policies growing more disastrous as the years go by.
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A few things, it seems to me, have played a part in the current crisis: Back in 2008, the state passed some onerous air quality legislation, that mandated truck engines be “upgraded” by certain dates. It was a gradual process, but older engines were simply not going to be able to be registered by the year 2020.
If you think about this law’s actual effect on trucking in the state, I’m sure you’ll realize (not that the legislators did) that many companies and independent truckers changed their work patterns because they couldn’t, or didn’t want to, spend the money to change out their trucks’ engines, especially since they operated in multiple states, and could avoid our expensive mandates.
There’s the very recent law about employment, AB5, that basically eliminated independent truckers. You need to be a salaried employee to drive in California unless you fit some pretty impossible criteria. I’m not an expert here, either, but I can imagine the entanglements. Again, since long-haul truckers work in multiple states, California has rules different than anywhere else, so why not avoid it?
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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.
Just like the post office and DMV right?
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
Cali isn’t confederate.
It’s ChiCom...
Why don’t people flock to UPS and FedEx to send their personal correspondence?
Probably never thought of doing it.
Letters are so 20th century.
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.
You’re talking semantics. Either way, L.A./ California has declared its independence from the U.S. QQ why would the chicoms cut off their own supply chain/ port of entry into the US markets? Its costing them millions per day
This assumes that they are not trying to cause a crisis.
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.
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