Hundreds of requests for details on the specifics of the container shipping backlog. So, I spent 3 days calling sources, digging for details and gathering information on the substantive issue at hand. The epicenter of the problem is not what is being outlined by financial media, corporate media and politicians who have a specific interest in distracting from the issues at hand. This has nothing to do with COVID-19.
The issues being discussed today relate to events that happened a long time ago. As a matter of fact, it was so predictable that Amazon, Walmart, UPS, FedEx, Samsung, The Home Depot and Target all had taken actions years ago -long before COVID- because they knew this day would come. It was not accidental that those companies showed up at the White House to discuss the issue, because there’s now a full court press to hide it.
There is one very specific regional issue driving the problem. Read on:
The trucking issue with California LA ports, ie the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB), is that all semi tractors have to be current with new California emissions standards. As a consequence, that mean trucks cannot be older than 3 years if they are to pick up or deliver containers at those ports. This issue wipes out approximately half of the fleet trucks used to move containers in/out of the port. Operating the port 24/7 will not cure the issue, because all it does is pile up more containers that sit idle as they await a limited number of trucks to pick them up. THIS is the central issue.
On October 16, 2020, the EPA reached a settlement agreement [DATA HERE] with California Air Resource Board (CARB) to shut down semi tractor rigs that were non-compliant with new California emission standards:
2020 SAN FRANCISCO – “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced settlements with three interstate trucking companies imposing $417,000 in penalties for violating the California Air Resources Board’s federally enforceable Truck and Bus Regulation, Drayage Truck Regulation and Transport Refrigeration Unit Regulation.
“As trucks are one of the largest sources of air pollution in California, EPA will continue to ensure these heavy-duty vehicles have the needed pollution-control equipment and operate in compliance with the rules,” said EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator John Busterud. “These companies have agreed to bring their trucks into compliance and operate more cleanly in all communities they serve.”
Transportation is a primary contributor to the high levels of air pollutants in Southern California and the Central Valley. Diesel emissions from trucks are one of the state’s largest sources of fine particle pollution, or soot, which is linked to health issues including asthma, impaired lung development in children, and cardiovascular effects in adults. Many of these trucks are older models and emit high amounts of particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).
[…] California Truck and Bus Regulation and Drayage Truck Regulation have been essential parts of the state’s federally enforceable plan to attain cleaner air. California requires trucking companies to upgrade vehicles they own to meet specific NOx and PM performance standards and to verify compliance of vehicles they hire or dispatch. 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. (read more)
In effect, what this 2020 determination and settlement created was an inability of half the nation’s truckers from picking up anything from the Port of LA or Port of Long Beach. Virtually all private owner operator trucks and half of the fleet trucks that are used for moving containers across the nation were shut out.
In an effort to offset the problem, transportation companies started using compliant trucks (low emission) to take the products to the California state line, where they could be transferred to non-compliant trucks who cannot enter California. However, the scale of the problem creates an immediate bottleneck that builds over time. It doesn’t matter if the ports start working 24/7, they are only going to end up with even more containers waiting on a limited amount of available trucks.
Yesterday, in an effort to obfuscate and actually hide the epicenter of the issue, the White House put on a performance to provide political cover. In a grand pantomime, Joe Biden met with the heads of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach (Gene Seroka and Mario Cordero, respectively), and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).
The publicized meeting and White House conference was sold as Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg showing actions they are taking to address delays and congestion across the transportation supply chain in Southern California.
As a result of the meeting, the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) announced that it will join the Port of Long Beach (POLB) in expanding to 24/7 operations. POLA will add new off-peak nighttime shifts and weekend hours, nearly doubling its hours of operation. The ILWU said its members are willing to work those extra shifts to add needed labor capacity.
That publicly promoted action event was a complete political farce. No amount of extra productivity in working the docks to off-load ships will solve the issue of trucks that cannot pick up the containers and distribute them toward manufacturing or warehouses.
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.
Yes, years ago the private sector predicted this would happen, and they started taking actions to protect their supply chains. What these massive corporations did to reduce their exposure to supply chain disruption was to immediately formulate plans to divert their goods to other ports. This was a very expensive shift in supply chain and logistic efforts for these massive corporations, which includes: Amazon, Walmart, UPS, FedEx, Samsung, The Home Depot and Target.
A long time before and during the era of the Trump administration, those massive multinational corporations knew they would need to redirect their import cargo quickly to avoid the bottleneck caused by California’s new emission standards. They began organizing new destination ports for their products and began setting up new hubs and distribution networks to avoid the predictable California port bottlenecks.
Obviously, for politically correct reasons; and in an effort to avoid the woke mob of environmentalist jackboots, the corporations didn’t publicly share any of the issues they could foresee coming – they just worked independently and quietly to avoid the issue.
However, it costs more money to move and entire supply chain for trillions of tons of goods coming. Hence, we saw prices climbing as a result of increased transportation costs being factored in to the new logistics. Did you hear about massive increases in container shipment prices? Well, THAT’S WHY. The entire supply chain from Asia to the United States was being modified from the closest port (California) to the ports where internal transportation would not be an issue.
Ships from China and SE Asia being diverted from California into the Gulf of Mexico or East coast have to go through the Panama Canal. It takes twice as long and costs twice as much, if not more. Hence, massive shipping price increases:
Unfortunately, small companies and small brokers of import goods do not have the control over their part of the supply chain from Asia to the West Coast. They don’t contract for entire cargo ships with thousands of containers. Those wholesalers, brokers and smaller companies that feed raw material and parts supplies to manufacturing and smaller retail outlets are stuck waiting for their containers to get through the trucking issue in California.
The bottleneck at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach run by Gene Seroka and Mario Cordero is not caused by a lack of longshoremen and dock workers to off-load the vessels. The bottleneck is caused by half of the previous trucks used to enter the ports and pick up containers not being allowed. Factually, it doesn’t make a tinkers damn worth of difference if the port works 24/7/365. The ports are simply running out of space.
The ports are running out of places to store containers full of goods that are getting off-loaded. Hundreds of thousands of them are piling up. The central issue is the inability of emission compliant heavy transportation in California to move those containers full of goods to manufacturing, warehouses and distribution points.
This California bottleneck has been building, and building and building for years, until now it has reached a crisis point.
If you want to know how long this has been taking place, take the time to watch this video of a trans-continental shipment belonging to Amazon Inc from China. As you watch this really good discussion, think about how long Amazon Inc. has known about the problem in order for them to have put such a massive solution into place in order to avoid California.
Yeah, this California emissions issue has been identified for years, and Amazon has been planning to avoid it for years. WATCH:
START RANT….
BUILD EVERYTHING WE CAN HERE! It’s that simple.
We live in the greatest continent on the planet. We have it all here – It’s about our geology. Most all continents are short of this and that geologically. That’s why Everyone wants a piece of us.
History shows the way. Despots like Hitler had shortages, fuel and the like. They took over oilfields etc. in other countries. They had to conquer to expand. WE HAVE MOST EVERYTHING HERE. No need to go apeshit and start conquering land to feed our needs. THAT IS WHY WE DON’T. Pay attention.
Always the same story. Wash, rinse, repeat. And then we have the sold-outs that want everything built offshore “to save the planet”. BULLSHIT. It all started for them with the orange polluted skies in LA in the 70’s. Kid you not.
From there they went ballistic to include the whole planet. I was there… For you whippersnappers under 60, even worse, under 30, don’t say or write a word until you either have lived through it or done very valid the research.
There will be a history quiz tomorrow. Better get cramming….
END RANT
so, if those companies planned for years to avoid this problem, why is it still a problem??
On the other hand, there are videos online that claim to show large numbers of trucks waiting for material.
California legislators are definitely from another planet. The planet they are from produces non-human beings who are incapable of digesting intelligent thoughts through a head born brainless. This had led to fecal matter growing where brain cells, in normal human beings, mature. It is called the ASS. If these legislators were to take their heads out of their asses, then perhaps an average thought process might develop and this backlog could be erased. Good Luck!
Biggest only by the Trucking industry? How about the contributing pollution factor of California commercial Airlines?
And all the vehicles that are polluting in California!
This might interest you..
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/03/518323094/rise-in-smog-in-western-u-s-is-blamed-on-asias-air-pollution
Space travel for the mega rich. 1 rocket = how many trucks?
Good and justifiable question. These space ‘joy rides’ opportunities, created and promoted by the three (3) giga rich must be banned. Why can’t they spend their millions and billions for useful causes for humanity.
“Why can’t they spend their millions and billions for useful causes for humanity.”
They all do spend a good amount on useful causes for humanity.
They don’t have to do that.
It is their money to do what they want with.
How would you like someone to tell you how to spend your money?
“It is their money to do what they want with.” Of course, to contaminate the global atmosphere with their rocket launches and ultimately leave more space junk behind in the future if this continues. Anyway, what gives them that right for this environmental harmful useless hobby? The global atmosphere is certainly not the domain of billionaires, at least not now and I hope never.
The climate catastrophe narrative is a lie. Theres no proof except for the climate models which might as well be described as fortune telling and have proven to be entirely inaccurate over the years.
You’re not wrong. Read an interesting article a few months back about how China has been controlling the weather (they have a program for it and everything) for decades. I’d bet money that, since our government is in bed with the CCP, the CCP creates these horrific weather catastrophes and in turn DC screams “climate change!” So they can steal more money and create more regulations as a result.
I watched “Seaspiracy” on Netflix and that was a HUGE eye opener. I highly, highly suggest watching it if you haven’t already!
Read up on geoengineering, interesting how they want to control Mother Nature.
You are correct. Scientists used to measure climate change using tree rings. When they switched their methodology all the sudden there is global warming, etc., etc. We can chalk this up to the fact they changed how they measure. People need to look deeper into why all these liberal college professors are pushing the bogus theories of climate change. What’s their motication?
Tell that to NASA……………………
They made it, they can spend it as they wish just like you do
they made it???? they cheated and stoled and lied with tax payer money!!!! wake up man
WOW!? Like, we already HAVE someone telling us “we must get the shot!?”
Because it is their money…they can spend it however they want.
They already do
Because it’s their choice
No problem, most rocket launches will be in Texas and elsewhere, not CA.
Watching the stupid environmental protection laws taking place and seeing the thousands of acres burning every year. LOL. The state definitely is responsible for lost jobs, increasing cost of living, inflation, the worsening of quality of life.
Less state, the better quality of life. Less bureaucracy, the better products become.
Got to ask. With California being so bad, why did so many people re-elect Newsom? He’s a big contributor to their problems. It seems if you keep electing the same individuals and political parties then you have no right to bitch
that election was rigged.. and there are a lot of ignorant people in California!
Victor Davis Hanson: GOP Created A Middle Class Dems Couldn’t Get With Quotas (thefederalist.com)
And I just heard from a supplier of mine that he visited a job site in the San Fernando valley area and the person was an illegal alien and he voted he admitted he voted and of course he voted for Biden because that way you can stay here because Biden won’t deport him Biden is
Dominion does the voting, the just let us , pretend ….
Well, if it was a legit election (which it wasn’t) they wouldn’t have announced the recall failed within 2 hours of the polls closing…if you knew how that system works, you’d know there is no way to have a “winner” in less than 2 hours…physically and logistically and legally IMPOSSIBLE.
There are those of us who live in California who vote for the other guy, & we voted to recall Newsom. We also wish Aunt Nancy would finally swallow her teeth and go away. Unfortunately we live with WAY too many “useful idiots”!!
The Dems control the election process. Massive mail in votes=fruad.
It’s simple. There’s a huge disproportionate amount of Dems in this state, far more than Republican voters, who were scared of Larry Elder especially when they compared him as worse than Trump and making the recall about that. Yes, there was cheating going on, as always here, and the election was rigged, but even blaming that is a cop-out. We just don’t have enough votes in California; most people are very liberal here.
Larry Elder is much more liberal than the progressive tyrants. He believes in real freedom.
His ad campaigns were paid for by SEIU. Teacher’s unions and other unions in addition to corruption in the voting system… Hypocrite idiot stays in office.
They didn’t lol
I can all but guarantee Newsom and his corrupt cronies cheated to keep him in office.
I’d bet my life on it.
Absolutely
You don’t get it. It is rigged. No one that we know there , would ever re-elect Groosome. Unless you are that type. That’s why we moved. Election integrity is our one only HOPE !
HE HAD TO HAVE CHEATED
that was rigged!!!! why cant people see whats going on here….
RIGGED ELECTIONS, or haven’t you heard about the Presidential election COUP?!????Dominion voting machine’s.
WAKE UP
The reason newsome was able to defeat the recall petition and develop major was because he spent $270 million dollars to sell office for one more year now come up 2022 he has to run for governor again he couldn’t stand on his achievements does her none it’s all been failures just like biden’s. Now know some wants to tell the farmers how to make carbon friendly but the farmers are already doing it and what the hell is a goddamn idiot governor no more about farming than the farmer do they’re well educated some of them got a college degrees and they know how to manage their dairies they know how to manage their cattle they know how to manage their farms and save water too they’re not wasting Water California is wasting water flushing out the Delta because of contaminated by the sewage from Sacramento and also flushing out the San Francisco Bay because who is just being dumped into that bay in
The CA fascist bureaucrats carefully evaluate areas where they can do the most economic damage and go about creating regulations to make it happen. When people try to circumvent the regulations, they issue big fines with huge penalties for non-compliance. In this way, they gather increasingly more power unto themselves. Example: clearing the brush and forests of deadwood is a fire hazard prevention measure they will not allow which causes billions in lost property, lives and horribly killed animals.
… and more than a little pollution.
These complete idiots in CA, including NEWSOME, HAVE EVERY CLUE about what should be done. Beautiful Paradise, CA was a magical place. But NEWSOME, not only did nothing about forest management, he made things much worse and lots of people died! In my opinion. I spent many fantastic childhood days there, in the home my grandfather built. Experts TOLD HIM HOW TO MAKE THINGS BETTER, INCLUDING Pres Trump and that’s prob why, he not only did nothing but lied about what little he did do! We watch every yr as soon as fire season starts, and it’s horrible every year, I think part of it is about a land grab. But this shipping thing is just more of CA’S ENVIRONMENTAL BULLSHIT. I am all for keeping CA beautiful, and have always left any place we camped or visited better than I found it. I love our muscle car, it is part of Americana. But they want all of that and gas powered cars just gone. Now NEWSOME is destroying our beautiful central valley, and the abundance of awesome things they used to grow! Now he has wasted so much water, their fields have gone fallow. We feed this whole country with this wonderful fruits and vegetables, beef, chicken and pork. They have put so many family farmers and their people out of work. They have just ruined CA and it appears they are not done yet. This is why most of us are leaving. Insanity is doing the same dumb shit over and over and expecting a different result. When oh when will CA get the adults back on board that will save this beautiful state! Like people more worried about the state than they are about freakin pronouns! Before it’s too late!
Never mind the commercial airlines – how about all the private jets the politicians and other Uber-wealthy fly around all the time? And usually just one or two passengers. So they have NO room to talk!
The shipping container guy who’s video you recommended, just loves to hear himself talk……The relevant infor could have been presented in 5 minutes, but we had to listen to him talk about flat area to offload in Houston, and then whether or not they would be waiting for big trucks to take it to its destination…..Duh! yeah.
Usually like your references, but NOT this one.
This guy’s writes at the end:
Yeah, this California emissions issue has been identified for years, and Amazon has been planning to avoid it for years. WATCH:
And there is YouTube video about Amazon. Very interesting. I watched it. But it does NOT say that the emissions controls are the source of the problem. Why cite a source that does not support the argument?
The emission controls are the problem. The move out of California is the solution. If you were spending millions to avoid a problem, would you advertise why you were doing it? The environmental groups would be up in arms. I’m sure we haven’t heard anything from them yet but now we will. There is no logical reason to purchase vast quantities of goods from China. Just make them in the USA. Transportation problem solved. California is the tail trying to wag the dog.
My sentiments exactly! “make them in the USA”!
There are very good reasons to build in China. THere are few labor safety standards, few environmental controls. All the things we put in place here to protect workers and the environment are not put in place there. Yet we allow goods made under these conditions to enter our country. If these regulations are good, then they are good for everyone. Of course nobody has to follow them outside the USA. But they do follow six-sigma quality standards in production. If they can do that, they can put in place safety and environmental controls.
But there is nobody requiring it.
I have a hunch, the author, like many of us, had his eyes glaze over in the first few minutes of the meandering and pointless video. Or maybe made a mistake with the link. I couldn’t imagine trying to get through the video guys book. I couldn’t get thru more than half the useless video.
He sure does talk a lot, and repeats things.
Whoever wrote the article is also a repeater. He said the same thing four or five times…
It’s lonely at the top…
The video has some good info and doesn’t try blowing smoke up your backside. Just saying.
THere is a legal solution…….get control of EPA, after 2022 elections,,,,,pas a law that says if a State puts in regulations that “Restrict” interstat commerce, then they will have to pay whatever costs that businesses incur to meet those standards.
That is constitutionally legal, and would be very effective.
It’s not the EPA. It’s California.
Moreover it is California acting in restraint of trade. Acting in restraint of trade has been illegal since LONG before the Uniform Commercial Code was brought to bear on commerce. Fundamental principle of American Common Law, in fact, iirc.
Keeping everyone’s goods captive on California soil, no less! Amounts to hijacking as a second-order knock-on effect and just as real as any other in the net effect nonetheless. Millions of all MANNER of people online now for one purpose held in common, seeking only the factual answer to their in-common question: “WHERE ON EARTH IS MY STUFF THAT I PAID FOR ALREADY?”
Opinion: The Cali+EPA regs are a metaphoric Gordian Knot. Well at least it ain’t a Sword in a Stone… SOMEONE MUST PART THE TANGLE at its ROOT. SUSPEND those Green NeoDealie regs and LET ALL THE TRUCKERS ROLL.
THEN with 24/7 and a leetle hard work things might be Made Right. Until the politics gits run out of out of the logistics, though (and it will NOT remove itself), we shall soon be dying of the best things we might have ever had – but didn’t take delivery.
Because couldn’t; NO TRUCKS! And that is all. 0{:-|o[
Oh, it IS California leading the way. “California is the only state allowed to set its own air emissions standards for motor vehicles. California was granted an exception under the Clean Air Act because the state had already implemented standards in 1966 to address its critical smog problem and had established an Air Resources Board (CARB) to oversee them. The Clean Air Act states EPA shall grant a waiver if California’s standards are necessary to meet compelling circumstances and are at least as stringent as federal standards. Other states may choose to adopt California’s vehicle emissions standards without EPA approval. Thirteen states and the District of Columbia, making up about 30 percent of U.S. auto sales, currently follow at least some of California’s vehicle emissions standards” https://www.c2es.org/content/regulating-transportation-sector-carbon-emissions/
President Biden signed an executive order…
California has an exemption from the 1963 Clean Air act that allows it to set its own standards. That exemption should be removed.
Commerce Claise allows the Feds to step in on interstate issues. This would be an ideal time.
Sorry, Claise, not Claise.
Still misspelt. I hope you get the point. Clause.
LOL it happens!
Clause. Lol. Your welcome.
You’re welcome.
Look to Brandon for help.
According to the article it is EPA enforcing CA regulations.
It’s not California, it’s Gruesome Newsome
Seems to me that this entire issue is a direct result of violating the Constitutional interstate commerce clause. How does CA have the legal authority to deny interstate traffic?
According to CA Air Resources Board the truckers put out too much pollution. I disagree with that premise. CA’s problem is overpopulation pure and simple.
The Central Valley is a HUGE valley that is like a bowl. Pollution comes in but has not way to leave. Back in the 80s, early 90s, many studies were conducted to find out why the very rural Valley is so polluted. The results showed that the Bay Area pollution was funneled down the Valley, picking up pollution created in the Valley. Wind currents pulled the pollution down to the southern end of the Valley and then pushed it back up the eastern side of the Valley where it stopped in what was termed the ‘Fresno-visalia air eddy’. And there it stays with nowhere to go.
I live in Tulare County, about 40 miles east of Visalia. Most of the year it is so polluted here that you cannot see even the foothills which start about 1 mile east of my house. The increase in trucking here in the Valley is a direct result of overbuilding and exceeding our very limited carrying capacity.
It never made sense to me why we would pave over the world’s most fertile and productive valley.
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By the way, I called my congressman’s office yesterday, McCarthy the worthless, and asked why CA was allowed to pass laws that effectively forbid interstate commerce, in violation of the constitutional interstate commerce clause. I actually spoke with a fellow in DC who said he was on the team addressing this problem.
He said he had no knowledge of either the EPA rulings or the impacts of the Gig economy laws passed by CA being the cause of the problems. I asked him about the violation of the commerce clause. He said they had never thought of that but they would look into it.
I told him about The Conservative Treehouse and suggested he might want to take a look at it.
I bet the fellow I spoke with gets paid big bucks yet seems to know nothing.
Being in the minority, the only things republican staff people worry about is where they will have dinner. McCarthy, the worthless, is primarily concerned with who his next freshman pump will be. One really wonders, that if the republicans take the House in 2022, would there be any improvement with McCarthy as speaker. With all the perks he would have to pass out, the job would certainly make tail chasing easier for him.
The same way that Mitch McConnell has the authority to block those filthy Heroic First Responders from getting needed medical aid at the behest of his cronies in insurance. Despite the fact that no less a body than Congress Itself reminded us that using one’s public office for personal benefit is 100% illegal, everyone is here on social media wondering how “Government” is allowing politicians to ‘get away with’ what they’re doing as if those are two separate beings.
It is our job to prosecute them for their crimes, not vote them out of office then replace them with others also in corporate pay. But We The People have forgotten that.
Reached out to a friend who works for a truck manufacturer. He said any truck made after 2010 meets CA emission regulations.
Read the article again my friend, you missed the point of the article about the October 16,2020 EPA settlement.
I read the settlement and it has nothing to do with anything that would cause a truck shortage in California ports. Peter is correct in rgard of california truck emissions but the ports are even more lenient.
Gina, really? Click on the link provided in the article “California Emission standards”.
Trying very hard not to be dense here, but I’m having trouble understanding what would cause a new truck every 3 years? I also understood the emissions regulations to require an engine dated 2010 or newer, so trying to understand this additional piece. John, scrolling through I thought you may be able to answer.
https://www.c2es.org/content/regulating-transportation-sector-carbon-emissions/
President Biden signed an executive order but California exempt as already stricter than EPA.
Nope. If you owned diesel you were required to upgrade or purchase new truck.
Upgrade is not possible and companies purchased all new fleet of diesel 2 years ago
Reached out to a friend who works for a truck manufacturer. He said any truck made after 2010 meets CA emission regulations.
It’s actually 2007 and up that meets the standards at least for a couple more years.
The ports use the drayage program
https://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/ab-617-ab-134/steering-committees/wilmington/handouts-may9-2019.pdf?sfvrsn=8
Your info is old, in 2014 the CARB updated the requirements which effectively banned trucks manufactured before 2014. In 2018 CARB updated the requirements again, this time, also regulating trailers.
https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/index.php/our-work/programs/ttghg/about
But according to the article no truck made after 2018 is allowed to pick up containers in California ports
this was part of the deep state plan, they filed for patents on coivd and the vaccine starting in 2007
Does Vancouver have similar craziness? Could they not alleviate at least some of the backlog? I’m sure Seattle and Portland are of no use. It’s a national security crisis to have our entire Pacific coast in the hands of anti-Americans.
I believe the Port of Vancouver has the same rules. My Uncle was an owner operator who upgraded his trucks only to be told owner operators needed to upgrade their trucks yet again. He sold his trucks.
What they need to do in the meantime is get all the trucks that meet California’s crazy new laws to simply move the containers to some point across the state line into a bordering state where any other truck can then take it to it’s final destination.
What an incredible, cutting edge idea !! DUH !! Get the product flowing NOW PLEASE !!
Well the author said its not just entry to the ports but transport to the state line.
That is not a minor issue when only a third (if that)
of the fleet operators are
compliant. It is a true cluster****.
A big part of the issue. I work in a related field.
– ports also started requiring TWIC cards, so that nixed out illegal alien drivers (50%?).
– Oakland has only 3 docks, 1 is private, so essentially 2 docks.
– no longer docks in San Francisco or Stockton. Two docks for all NorCal.
– Oakland works half day on Friday; no Saturday or Sunday work.
– imports up 25%. That’s huge.
– China and others (last I checked) pay $40,000 for an inbound Container, $4,000 for outbound, so they often send out empties back, leaving our outbound goods delayed.
– some older truckers retired because of CARB, others Covid.
Dr. Bill Wattenberg was fighting this for years in Sacramento and on KGO radio. Another California fiasco.
I can starve to death or breathe a fey particles that are not good for me. Guess I will starve along with with many others. Maybe i can catch and cook rats like they do in Venezuela !
Um, think airgun.
Minimal (if any) licensing/registration in most districts and plenty good “sock” for game hunting. A .25 PCP air rifle has the moxie of a .22LR Magnum but delivers the energy in a somewhat larger projectile. Whup up the main makin’s for a fine tasty batch of Rabbit Hash any time, and quietly at that.
Oh sure rats, pigeons etc if that’s all that is to be found that day. But rabbit, groundhog and the like… YUM. And that is all. 0{:-)o[
Mind the plague whence gutting ur fare.
U might could start an international
globalist canard crisis.
And then u’d be in trouble.
The conservative movement is states rights and small federal government. All the time. Not on select issues. California is an example of that principal. If you don’t like that, you’re not really a conservative.
So the question becomes, at what point does the zealous exercise of States’ Rights, causing that principle to function as a vehicle of suffering for all neighboring others, become sufficiently intolerable to all so affected outside the State in question?
Harks back to Early Days, when the Question had to do with the right to swing one’s own fist. And where does that natural human right end, riddle me this?
OK I give. Most times (for there are exceptions) at the point where the other guy’s face starts, right there at the tip of the nose. One might think we have a corollary situation ongoing in California, no?
So how is it that so many noses have been bent out of shape to such a degree and so slowly that nobody wanted to notice? “Nothing but Flowers”, there’s the Talking Heads lyric to answer that. And that is all. 0{;-)o[
California is controlled by Democrats; Conservatives are a minority. An attempt was recently made to recall the Governor; it failed. They are entrenched and now will run totally amuck. Do not look to California for anything productive.
Why don’t they go up to Canada?
One of many issues adding fire ? to logjam
Sudance, a most brilliant missive regarding this subject.
You have bested everyone in the media business, including
right-wing media.
As Conservative talk show host, Dennis Prager has said – ” everything
the left touches it destroys.”
Sundance, you deserve a Pulitzer Prize for exposing state incompetency.
Sudance, a most brilliant missive regarding this subject.
You have bested everyone in the media business, including
right-wing media.
As Conservative talk show host, Dennis Prager has said – ” everything
the left touches it destroys.
Sundance, you deserve a Pulitzer Prize for exposing state incompetency.
Thank you for facts, not spin. California needs you as governor. A good start would be an audit of the 2020 election in California.
We were all warned. Time to buy American Made. Just not made in California.
No mention of trains for transporting. Looks like train tracks at the dock, yes?
Government is the greatest evil ever created by man.
Why do they not go to Seattle then???
Trains not trucks transport sea containers cross country from coastal ports to distribution yards in or near every major city. Trucks are used only for local delivery from them to customers. # transportation 101
So, what is happening with the cargo ships? Are they just going to sit there? And for how long? What happens if cargo ships are out of commission because they cannot leave California because they are still not being unloaded because enough trucks cannot access them?
The article doesn’t mention more than a century of government hostility to railroads. Per ton-mile, the energy and emissions of rail transport are about a quarter of those of truck transport. The Interstate Highway system is a fantastic system, but it subsidizes trucking.
Loved your coverage on this and no doubt you’ve now seen CARB’s contribution to the problem. LOVED your rant on building multipurpose vessels in the USA. These would be today’s Liberty Ships particularly if we tinker with the design so they can be built prefab and fast. Where is MARAD these days?
Time to arrest Gavin Newsom as a threat to America…..obviously a moron with his head way up his ass, and taking orders from Aunt NUMB NUTS NANCY…..they are destroying America…….Gavin Newsom is a total waste as a politician..and morons voted him, back in…my opinion
Fraudulently Elected in, again
Arrest him…. You’re so kind. My thoughts on the subject aren’t worthy of the light.
Easy fix- remove the comies running that god forsaken place
Wow. This was a great report on what is actually going on in shipping. Keep up the great work. Thank you!
Would you hire Biden, Buttitieg or Harris to run our local animal shelter or work for you? The are not capable
I wouldn’t hire them to pick up dog crap. They’d screw that up too.
Another liberal created disaster. How do people in California leek voting idiots into office is mind boggling. But being a resident here it infuriates me.
Sundance, good job. IMO, I always thought the solution to smug CA fascist bureaucrats was TX and the Panama canal. To wipe out the livelihoods of tens of thousands of owner operators by bureaucratic edict and hold the entire country hostage to their harbor blackmail is criminal. TX and FL will appreciate the business.
This article misrepresents the facts. There are indeed regulations that are phasing out trucks with engines older than 2010. It may be true that stricter enforcement of these longstanding regulations is being applied, but it is also true that 96% of the trucks in california comply with current regs (2nd link). Seems to me there are some point that could be made, but to try to blame the shipping crisis on emission regs is disingenuous at best.
https://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/ab-617-ab-134/steering-committees/wilmington/handouts-may9-2019.pdf?sfvrsn=8
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/18/fact-check-california-cargo-backlog-not-due-trucking-regulations/8456582002/
Read for yourself. All could be bs, but it supports my points better than the author does his own.
So USA today fact-checking this story is your comeback? C’mon Corn Pop you must be a Democrat!
Really? Well just make it all up if you want. Personally I prefer facts.
Everyone needs to remember this when you’re sitting on the pot, and you’ve just used your last sheet of toilet paper!! Gruesome Newscum (in his mind boggling, delayed IQ, mental state) is trying to play GOD with the people of California, by pandering for votes from the “sudo-know-it all” environmentalists !!
It is criminal that the West got sucked in by Globalist Criminals into transferring near all industry, natural resources, technology and even financial resources to Communist China through the lie of “Free Trade”. We built our worst enemy intentionally. Thank you Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon….and every President since including Trump.
End All Trade With Communist China and Make America American Again
HMMMM…Econ 101
ALL the merch in ALL the containers is STILL property of the firms that produced those goods…
NOW…if you are GAMING for HIGHER prices, withhold the goods
“Inflation, you know…”
Add say …40%?
You do want that, dontcha there schlomo…
What effect does the fact that OOIL (China)owns Long Beach port have? Didn’t Trump sign some kind of EO about countries that come in and steal elections have consequences?
I do agree with your idea of using smaller ports around the USA instead of this funnel in CA.
so why is Savanah, GA backed up? Not sure I understand the pollution component when they are suffering from a lack of trucks and drivers as well.
There are ports in Washington State, Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, even Mexico that can unload these ships and put the communist state of Calif. out of business.
Okay, so if I buy this argument and explanation, what’s up with Savannah Georgia?
The video has no references that specifically state only trucks built 2018 and beyond are required to move cargo from California ports. None of the references/links state that only trucks built after 2018 are required. One of the links does state that trucks must meet 2010 standards or use diesel emission filters.
Please provide data and links to material requiring all trucks used for drayage/shipping from California ports be built from 2018 to the present. Thank you.
The crux of the problem: People who worship the creation and not the Creator
The video goes on and on about a lot of ship and container details without being clear on what details relate to transportation crisis -or hints to us on collecting the dots.
The article makes vague references to major corporations seeing this coming an implementing changes years ago -without mention of what particular companies did other than that some use other ports.
Missing data on % change in stuff coming in versus % change in stuff going out being tied to dates.
Also surprised no mention of legislative action to undo the trucking restrictions to be phased in and less severe.
No mention of long range plans for trains or buy US goods. For example: require all online sellers doing over $1B per year to have a country of origin filter for searches on their pages. All products now list country of origin, so the data exists.
There’s more than the trucking issues at play here. I’m a locomotive engineer for a major class a railroad. Just 1 of our trains hauls over 600 containers. The rail cars that transport these containers are double stack equipment. When no containers are on these double stack cars they are called baretable trains. We currently have more baretable trains than I’ve seen in over 15 years. So many that they’re crossing the country both East and West at the same time!
Why can’t the Port make up trains of full containers and ship them to Arizona and truckers pick them up and disperse them from there and in reverse the truckers would bring all the empties back from the various states to Arizona put them on the train and deliver them back to the port. Trains can hold thousands of these containers compared to one truck.
Has anyone told Biden? Or did they and he doesn’t remember.
The bottleneck at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach run by Gene Seroka and Mario Cordero is not caused by a lack of longshoremen and dock workers to off-load the vessels. The bottleneck is caused by half of the previous trucks used to enter the ports and pick up containers not being allowed. Factually, it doesn’t make a tinkers damn worth of difference if the port works 24/7/365. The ports are simply running out of space.
The ports are running out of places to store containers full of goods that are getting off-loaded. Hundreds of thousands of them are piling up. The central issue is the inability of emission compliant heavy transportation in California to move those containers full of goods to manufacturing, warehouses and distribution points.
This California bottleneck has been building, and building and building for years, until now it has reached a crisis point.
I just looked at the Port of LA and guess what. There are TRAIN TRACKS there. Right at the dockside, no less.
Forget trucks and just load the containers on trains. Move them to the other 48 by rail and then use local trucks to get them to the final destination.
Yea, yea, I know; we are going to need more trains. So BUILD THEM!
Which regulations specifically prevent 2017 or older trucks from entering the port? Can someone link?
Bullcorn!
I have family that work those ports
It’s the damn longshoreman union!
They have an in with the politicians
They pay their employees to stay home, or stop working mid shift and go home
The truckers are lined up for miles to get into the port