Posted on 11/08/2021 9:57:02 AM PST by MNJohnnie
Trucking industry groups issued warnings after President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled a COVID-19 vaccine rule targeting private businesses with 100 or more workers, saying the mandate would damage the industry.
“As we made clear in our comments to the administration prior to the rule’s publication, drivers spend the vast majority of their workday alone in the cab and outside,” the American Trucking Associations President Chris Spear said in a statement last week after the rule was published in the Federal Register.
On Nov. 4, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released guidance stipulating businesses with 100 or more employees be required to have their workers provide proof of weekly COVID-19 tests or get vaccinated. Businesses with contracts with the federal government, regardless of size, will have to mandate vaccines with no weekly testing option.
The deadline for the vaccine mandate for both federal contractors and private businesses was set for Jan. 4.
“While we complete our due diligence to confirm that fact through official channels, we see quotes from Labor Secretary [Marty] Walsh as an enormous victory for our association and industry,” Spear added. “Given the nationwide shortage of truck drivers, it is vital that our industry has the relief it needs to keep critical goods moving, including food, fuel, medicine, and the vaccine itself,” he continued.
Similarly, the Truckload Carriers Association issued a statement saying that it hoped that truckers would be exempt from the mandate because they spend most of their time in their vehicles all day and have little interaction with other people.
The group has “repeatedly called on the Administration to heed our warnings regarding this mandate’s impact on the already constrained supply chain, yet they chose to proceed with a disastrous mandate which will undoubtedly ensure the trucking industry loses a substantial number of drivers,” it said in a statement.
Mark Allen, the CEO of the International Foodservice Distributors Association, told The Washington Examiner that he was surprised there were no specific exemptions for truckers.
“If we lose even a fraction of our drivers, that has the potential to have a significant impact on our ability to service the customers,” he said.
Ahead of the OSHA rule being unveiled, the American Trucking Associations, Truckload Carriers Association, and others called for flexibility on the mandate and warned that 37 percent of drivers would leave their jobs, triggering widespread supply chain disruptions.
“We ask for flexibility for transportation and supply chain essential workers, particularly truck drivers who spend most of their time in their trucks and have minimal contact with colleagues and customers,” they said.
As it’s supposed to.
Christmas will be a disaster.........................
The global fight over vaccines mandates can only now be described as a power-grab and fascist political theater.
People are starting to understand the vaccine does not stop the spread of Covid, the vax can have serious side-effects, it is being forced on groups who have incredibly low mortality from Covid, and effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing serious illness seems to wane anyway after 4-5 months.
“As it’s supposed to.”
Yep. If I was attempting to crash the American economy and fundamentally change America...this would be part of the plan.
Just wait till food trucks start getting hijacked all across the interstate system.................
If they want to exempt themselves from taking the vaccine, all they have to do is stop working and go on welfare.
Good point. And they should do it now before Christmas while they still have leverage. Why else would Biden be putting off implementing the mandate until January 4????
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/06/Biden-coronavirus-vaccine-lawsuit/
The Biden mandate has been stopped temporarily pending a permanent injunction. See above.
Let's go, Brandon.
Most of the food trucks are unmarked dry vans and reefers. The reefers are easy targets since they has refrigerated units.
My son is already prepping to get his RE broker license in FL as supplement to the trucking work. Flexibility in a morphing economy.
The task will be to find a food truck and an establishment that has food to ship. I suspect the supply chains will be so damaged that markets that get 18 deliveries per day to support the "just in time" stocking will find few deliveries and empty shelves.
The debacle in CA is completely contrived. The independents with owner-operators are excluded by AB5. Trucks older than 2011 are excluded. That leaves new, company owned trucks with union employees driving. A very thin herd against a huge backlog. The crane operators are slow walking things on the docks as well. A lot of perishable goods in those shipping containers will be worthless before they ever get unloaded. Many of the companies waiting on parts in the containers will go out of business before they are unloaded leaving stranded cargo. Items sent COD will never see payment.
Exxon can solve the California problem
Exxon should cease all sales in California. Ditto Shell
Truckers should start a 7 day stoppage. Then I’ll take dem seriously! They got power and won’t use it. Go back and see my posts and I’ve not changed my opinion of DEM Truckers!!!
Labor secretary says most truck drivers are exempt from Covid mandate, handing industry a win
PUBLISHED FRI, NOV 5 20215:42 PM EDTUPDATED SAT, NOV 6 20212:50 PM EDT
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/labor-secretary-says-most-truck-drivers-are-exempt-from-covid-mandate-handing-industry-a-win-.html
But wait! Nothing to worry about here. Because SlowJoe thinks we don’t even understand the “supply chain” issues, so he can’t imagine that we would comprehend that he has added to the problems. He and Jen Psaki will just keep telling us that they are working on it, and the MSM will tell us that Joe is so frustrated by all of this, and he’s working on it... and we are supposed to DRIVE AROUND and shop locally, with $4/gallon gas, to get gifts for our friends and family for Christmas.
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