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:
Where ever there is destruction, you will find Democrat fingerprints all over it. It’s ALWAYS them!
their Step 1 is how do we want to hurt America, and how can we mask that under a Policy named in a way it looks helpful…
ALLways!
And you will always find GOP complicity.
Not in this case. CA is democrat controlled. They, the democrats, voted on and enacted the emission standards several years ago. No old trucks allowed. Not a republican issue.
That is an opinion. Demorats can’t create and pass the bills alone…..not without help from the republicants along the way. And they haven’t improved anything lately. It used to be a nice place to live – when I was a child.
BULL SHITE. Its not opinion its a FACT. California Assembly is 80% democrats. State Senate is 70% democrats. They don’t need republics for anything except for something to mock,
My highest quarter tuition at Cal Poly, (SLO) was $65 and books were usually another $50. I graduated just in time as Jerry brown brought the tuition up to $600+ overnight.
I moved out of Calif in 1984.
Sounds like the boogie man follows you around. Snellville used to be a down home good place where the Rhythm ruled as in ARS. But as more and more liberals move in, it’s going to sh*t just like every other place they go to.
Welcome to the Great Reset. A core climate change dogma is forcing people consume less. This is just the first step in that direction. Coercive change is the only way to accomplish the climate change agenda.
Don’t worry the green windmill powered trucks will save the day.
See the faster the truck moves the higher the apparent wind speed which makes the truck go even faster using NO fuel at all!
Buttigieg could solve the problem by
“running a train”
Not while fake riding a bike to work.
He just keeps leading from behind.
I see what you did there!!
Ayn Rand must be rolling in her grave.
I think she is probably laughing as is Orwell.
Here is my favorite Ayn Rand quote: “You can ignore reality. But you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” Seems very appropriate in this situation. Sigh……..
I love that one.
Here’s another one I’ve seen a few times recently:
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.”
-Ayn Rand
Rolling?
She is spinning like the wheels of a slot machine!
The Green New Nightmare.
Please explain why Vancouver also has backlogs. The Financial Post says the problem is happening worldwide.
What do the Vancouver backlogs have to do with US port issues?
Think global.
A close relative is a Ships Pilot and moves ocean going freighters and other deep sea vessels up and down the British Columbia coast.
He and the other 100 or so Captains are working 24/7
I just talked to a longshoreman neighbour. He is working everyday on an afternoon shift.
Trucks are moving all over Southern B.C.
Yet grocery stores in particular appear to be struggling to get supplies.
I am just guessing here but my thoughts are certain products are being purposely delayed.
As prices on certain goods have increased by 30% or more.
Just a guess
Could be the interconnection of the shipping fleet. A vessel at Vancouver could be slated to head next to California. Or if returning (China mainly), then being scheduled to go to California next. If you think of a series of interconnected plumbing pipes, a plug up in one will affect all.
Its plausible but there are other possibilities. I keep hearing it is NOT a labor shortage from some commenters who personally know the labor situation at the ports (crane operators get a ton of money). I am not aware that Florida ports have any fleets of cargo ships parked off shore. I don’t watch the MSM but it is impossible to not get some gist of anything important.
My personal guess is that enough workers in the transportation/warehousing/purchase-order chain are “working to order” or refusing overtime to bog down the system. Look at the airlines struggling with thousands of cancelled flights (planes parked at airports vs ships parked off shore).
One thing is for sure, whatever the MSM says will be crafted to blame everything other than leftwing policies and reactions to them.
The smart guys in Europe are looking to reconfigure and start building their international global hub in Indianapolis (on the East Side at a site purchased and developed with runways for that purpose).
California cannot be depended on obviously.
Indy can always use the business.
That takes care of EXPRESS…. which, although a small part of total Global shipping, is a very important part. That’s your vaccines, antivirals, surgical tools, animals for testing (rats, rabbits, etc. from Indy to other locations that being the center for raising such animals ~ see Bloomington).
Oh, and the part rich people use.
They can probably get the whole thing built before LA figures out how to rent some new tractors from manufacturers in the East ~ (yeah, rent. They are there. For rent. Nothing wrong with Port of LA renting some).
mondo, I have seen numerous articles referencing the lack of rail cars available to move freight across Canada and from Canada into the U.S. This was also a big part of the spike in U.S. lumber prices over the past two years, where the lumber was readily available in western Canada but had great difficulty making it down to the U.S. by rail.
Why? The huge increase in shale oil production in Western Canada and the delay/cancellation of the Keystone pipeline resulted in a large amount of rail capacity being locked-up under long-term contracts by the Canadian shale oil producers.
So, just another green new deal-inspired impact on the global supply chain.
You are correct.
Enbridge and Suncor ( two energy biggies here) are seeing their business boom, and their share price rise dramatically.
A builder friend told us yesterday plywood that was $90.00 ( (Can) say 4-6 months ago is now back to $30.00 or less.
Manipulation much!
My guess … California bound tankers are looking for alternative docks.
Seems to me that Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama & Florida need to welcome all merchandise laden tankers.
No wait! Then they will move wearhouses to Texas and bring more leftists here. NOOOOOO.
In southern Dallas County, TX, there is a large inland port area. It is located in and around the intersection of Interstate 20, I- 35E and I-45. Millions upon millions of square feet of warehouse space has been built over the past 10 years. There is another million square feet of space being built currently.
Granted … Soros is doing his best to fill Texas with braindead California snowflakes … but … Don’t worry … the RAT in the Louisiana Guv’s Mansion is running off as many of our educated, tax paying citizens to Texas as possible – he’s “working” to turn the whole state blue with gangbangers and illegals.
You have what is actually a global system. There’s always just enough lift in time to move whatever is produced…. so one of the bigger chunks is missing.
That causes massive backs all over the system, particularly as traffic is diverted to the Panama Canal and away from America TOFC.
Vancouver is a tiny piece caught in the wake of a massive system!
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Because the ferry boats that bring all those goods from Vancouver to the states have work outages on-going . . .
Seems like the requirements for trucks at the Vancouver will be something like CA in 2022.
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https://www.portvancouver.com/truck-rail/truck/truck-licensing-system/
All container trucking companies and their trucks desiring to serve the port’s marine container terminals must meet certain criteria to be eligible for an Access Agreement under the Truck Licensing System to gain access to the federally-owned port property. Criteria includes minimum truck age, safety and environmental requirements.
The Port of Vancouver was the first port in Canada with stringent environmental requirements for port container drayage trucks to reduce air emissions, implemented by the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority in 2008. The key environmental requirement for truck approval in Truck Licensing System target truck age restrictions.
https://www.portvancouver.com/truck-rail/truck/truck-licensing-system/
Maybe because Vancouver is taking some of the overflow from California.
So I just searched “port backlogs London” and got several news articles from yesterday about major backlogs in UK ports. IT IS HAPPENING WORLDWIDE.
Longer transports equal higher prices. And the consumer loses again. The Green New Deal California Tax. The assault on the middle class and wage earners continues unabated.
Thanks SD.
I cannot find a single good reason for ANY ACTION that has been done since the 2016 election.
normally you could say a thing has a good side and a bad side. BUT EVERY action looks just perfect if you were trying to destroy us.
That is exactly what they’re trying to do, destroy us.
None of this makes sense until one is ready to accept the fact that they want us dead.
They want us dead.
Maybe the whole system just want’s to start over so all the “new” mericans don’t think so highly of themselves? I’ve never been to Europe, but from what I’ve seen and heard from some who have, even if it isn’t true, the Americans give the impression that they are better than the people in the countries they visit. I could be wrong, but most of the “upper class” seem to think they are better than the working middle class or those who are poorer than they are….and they show it to those of us not as ‘rich’ financially as they are. Stuff makes them rich? Money makes them rich? I don’t think so, family, friends, home, that is what makes a person rich.
Would say that some Americans give that impression. Not ALL.
However, it’s been a score plus years since I have been there.
As an aside, had some friends from Europe who were surprised by the courtesy displayed by most of the people that they met here in the states. Also the endless cups of coffee and the huge salads. ??
That’s always the communists’ opening play.
They kill millions of their own people.
Me either WhteBoard
And we must sit and watch every single state dance around the answer to all of our problems, immediately fix the stolen 2020 election.
Yet we must watch even the Arizona audit turn into a joke.
Yet the Arizona audit has released enough information already to enable you to win a lawsuit against the federal gub’mnt for penalizing you for something.
The Biden Junta is not legitimate!
AG was on Newsmax last night. Dude is so full of himself and a FAILURE. He has a criminal referral from the AZ Senate in hand and evidence of deleted databases.
Go to 24:20:
https://www.newsmaxtv.com/Shows/Rob-Schmitt-Tonight/vid/1_wgi1jgk1
AZ AG Brnunchuck?
As Sundance pointed out …
“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 (braindead Biden’s?) to discuss the issue because there’s now a full court press to hide it.”
I know I read somewhere that many of the above have “private carriers “ … I don’t know if that means private tankers or trucks … but it appears to allow them to bypass the logjams that will destroy small businesses.
Another RAT created crisis that the RATS will not waste.
We here in Alaska seem to be a foreign country again. “Prime” in Alaska doesn’t mean you get your ‘stuff’ soon…..you might even get it delivered in a week or two by UPS, or maybe 3 weeks or more by USPS. After living here since the 70’s, that is what it reminds me of any more and not just since Covid either. Lots of business that sell on line won’t ship or mail to Alaska. We used to have to order Winter coats and boots for our school kids by July (and hope they still fit toward the end of Winter. Now it is back to that. We lived in a town small enough NOT to have any specialty shops, and far enough from the city to not want to be there, so catalog shopping was the best way (still is or used to be)
2016 or 2020???
Cali just ought to ban trees ….. forests
since their annual fires’ air pollution
must negate their inane EPA regs.
Banning Democratic politicians would attack the root cause of CA’s misery.
Commiefornia could ease their power problems by requiring all marijuana be grown outdoors.
ALL BY DESIGN as dems. iibs, far-left, marxists, fascists, Biden, WH DESIRE.
NOT by coincidence…CRUSH the middle/working class….WEALTHY always going to be wealthy…they despise the little man.
Saw article today. TAXATION. Wealthy LOVE taxes, higher taxes…WHY? KEEPS anyone from achieving, prospering, ‘moving up’, competing…IF someone makes $500k yr and is taxed at 40%, leaves them $300k yr. AFTER living, expense, etc, MAY SAVE $100k and doubtful that much. How LONG does it take saving $100k/yr to become wealthy?? YOU DON’T and that’s the point. You won’t……
Wealthy don’t pay taxes at 30-40%. NEVER will. Sheltered, offshore, etc, but you and I will….
Truckers are middle class and NOBODY cares about them. They are destroyed in all REGULATIONS and GOVT CONTROL….higher fuel hurts who most, TRUCKERS!!!!
THE wealthy ain’t exactly shopping at Wal-Mart, Target, CostCo….THEY WON’T BE AFFECTED one iota by any shutdowns or supply/demand issues…NONE..
Correct … warren Buffett bragged more than a decade ago that he pays lower taxes than his secretary … his billion$$$ are protected in trusts and such … AND … he and Gates each “donate” $200million to each other’s “charities” … providing them yearly IRS approved tax deferrals … making certain RAT money stays with RATS.
The question comes to mind, what reason would “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)” have to meet with and “In a grand pantomime” participate in political obfuscation? To my mind, that would’ve been a great time to say we’re being handcuffed here from off-loading…
…of course, now you know why I’m not a politician or the head of a port.
They’re all probably bought off with covid bucks, like everybody else. They do what they are told.
Agreed.
FPCHmom: Undoubtedly. In the tank for JoeBama.
We have a solution.
The free REPUBLIC of Florida is open.
Florida to shipping companies: Our ports are open
https://www.wtvy.com/2021/10/08/florida-shipping-companies-our-ports-are-open/
Screw Kalifornia.
So is Tx and the EAST COAST.
NC has 2 major ports
Norfolk is another large port…..
The only problem is getting to them.
China to California Pacific Ocean direct route.
China to Florida, Texas Not so direct, Pacific Ocean then Panama, Gulf or around South America up the Atlantic to Gulf or continue along the East Coast. Much more expensive.
Yes, it’s true that it’s more expensive to go to Texas or Florida, but if your goods aren’t offloaded and your ships aren’t heading back to get more, then you get exactly . . . . NOTHING!
Lesser of two evils!
True, I Don’t know if Panama Canal has been widened to accommodate the huge container ships.
Tip of South America weather is not always very good. Going around SA adds a few weeks travel time.
Oregon and Washington have shipping ports too, and no Panama Canal delay. Simply divert most of the California ships northward.
Oregon
Astoria
North Bend/Coos Bay
Portland
St. Helens
Washington
Aberdeen/Grays Harbor
Anacortes
Bellingham
Everett
Kalama
Longview
Olympia
Port Angeles
Rainier
Seattle
Tacoma
Vancouver
Thank you so much Sundance for digging into this issue more. I kept feeling like there was a missing piece of the puzzle.
Another solution is to stop supporting Chinese slave labor and start producing in America. Why do these woke corporations support slave labor?
The Chinese Communist Party is the most efficient killing machine in the history of mankind. They have killed 90 million of their own adult citizens and forcefully aborted 400 million of their own unborn. Why do these woke corporations support this stronghold of death?
Unfortunately, these woke corporations appear quite immoral.
You’re gonna have to openly deny paying taxes here if you want to build here.
I agree.
So, most Americans want healthcare benefits, some kind of life insurance, and employer-contributions to our 401K retirement plans …. but then we refuse to pay the commensurate prices for goods manufactured here using American engineering, administrative, and touch labor who all also want similar benefits. We go cheap and want Chinese made stuff because they treat their labor force about one small step above slaves.
Use a Mexican port…. build rail to send it to Arizona… will be cheaper in the long run and California can slowly whither away.
This was a conspiracy theory that was going around a number of years ago when offshoring was in it’s heyday.
Build shipping ports in Mexico to import goods(run by the Chinese), build a massive interstate road into the heartland of the USA using Mexican truckers to deliver the goods then distribute out from there. This was promoted as a low cost, max profit way of getting goods from the Chinese factories into the USA. It would bypass the American high wage dock workers and truckers.
The Mexican Ports run by the Chinese are open. Mexican trucks and drivers are using that highway today.
Yeah, what was that called … Nadda, Mafia, nifty, NFT? I can’t seem to recall, like a giant sucked the phrase right out of my head.
Ports of Ensenada, Manzanillo, and Lazaro Cardenas on Mexico’s Pacific coast.
Don’t know what their capcity is, though.
I am sure the cartels will love this. Think of the protection money they could make after a few hijackings.
Cartels and murder come to mind.
Sounds like part of the plan to eliminate small business. Soon the only way to buy things will be to order through Amazon and have it delivered. No more quick trips to the local mom and pop store.
And that’s part of the problem as well.
Yes.
Christmas retail sales at small bricks and mortar ruined (which means their entire year is ruined) – Amazon profits through the roof.
The Greens Who Stole Christmas.
The best made plans of mice and men. Look around and start trading at small and family-owned businesses. Also begin to raise your own produce in buckets if nothing else. As a reminder, Christmas is not about fretting over Chinese junk.
CA classified virtually every trucker as ’employees’ last year. Even if you owned your own truck and were your ‘own boss’, you are now an employee of the importer whose goods you are transporting.
Designation requires tons of new costs/restrictions. Soc. Sec. tax, unempl. ins., medicare, worker’s comp. all added to cost of shipping by truck.
Resulted in tons of independent truckers picking up and moving out of state.
This is a big issue for the truckers [mostly black & other minority, btw] who used to be self employed and were forced out by larger transpo companies using drivers imported from China.
Sorry to learn this, and thank you for educating us all.
TonyinLA: I fully understand the situation you describe. CA treats small and independent business owners as tax cattle. Nothing but a source of revenue for the state. Endless taxes, fees, licenses, permits, surcharges, etc. Keeping up with all the paperwork also eats up time. Every county, city and municipality jumps on board for a piece of the action.
California should be declared a terrorist state and invaded and liberated. And the politicians, bureaucrats and whack-job enviro-Nazis listed as enemy combatants and arrested.
I agree – and I live here. I would welcome liberation.
So much short-sighted stupidity.
FPCHmom: Short-sighted stupidity, plus long-term planning. The commies have worked for decades to soak legal California residents and employers for every last possible penny.
I thought the truckers were saying they were having to wait for hours to get loaded? Where’s the explanation for that?
Chickens have come home to roost for these clueless green progressives. They can dodge and weave and spew all they want, but I would think it has become obvious to even the most unobservant and incurious American, as he or she cannot purchase the normally available items they’re used to, that their lives are going to be, shall we say, inconvenienced.
And if, as it looks like they will be, Thanksgiving and Christmas are going to be affected who knows how much, either in grotesquely higher prices for everything, including and especially food when everybody’s wages have shrunk, or in availabilty (or the lack thereof) of gift items, there won’t be a corner of this America for these incompetent destroyers to hide.
It will be a grim holiday season for those losing their means to provide food and presents for their families because of the wretched immoral mandate, and it is for them that I reserve all my worry and empathy. The ones who caused it and by their insane actions can’t fix it, I wish nothing for them but Grinches and coal filled stockings.
And yes, I know that is a very unChristian wish. I’m afraid it just sort of popped out on its own.
How is it unChristian to expect people to reap what they sow?
It’s a guarrantee that they will reap what they have sown. Unrepentance guarrantees it.
Consider the overall environmental impact. All that wasted energy. The total pollution is likely several million times greater than the meager gains of the compliant trucks.
But the citizens of the left coast feel good as they continue to worship mother earth. And feeling good is what counts.
They always have to break a few eggs to achieve their outlandish and unattainable objectives. They draw their massive change the world plans out on their drawing boards , only to discover, fantasy doesn’t work in the real world. Can’t learn, won’t learn.
I call them libnoramuses.
Not bad…it fits.
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Why are not all the autonomous trucks that taxpayers helped to develop being used to deliver containers to the state line?
Why didn’t this elitist task force tell Bribem that he needs to order ALL the electric powered trucks into CA right now, instead of wasting their use in the interior?
Where was the expert diesel mechanic to tell these genius’ that a truck idling for awhile is less pollution producing than having to shut it off and restart it four times over before they get to their place in line to be loaded?
Critical thinkers ask critical questions . . .
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And! Exactly WHAT fuels these container ships getting into CA waters . . .?
Don’t worry, the Commies have a solution for that!
Ammonia. I kid you not. Poisonous, corrosive, explosive, weak-azz fuel, but they are working on that idea for shipping.
We’ll need it too, as fairy-dust is really getting scarce.
Wait until their power is shut off can’t charge their “green” cars.
Exactly. This is no more about the environment than the vax mandate is about a virus.
Why can’t Biden just issue an executive order to California to ignore this standard and let those trucks into the state?
It seems like if he can mandate vaccinations, he can mandate this kind of thing.
For the good of the country.
If they can ignore all of the immigration laws, why can’t they just ignore this?
Nope! Gotta make sure their fellow travelers butts are covered. And the pain must continue.
I like the take on this. However, doesn’t China have a big footprint with port ownership or did that fall through? I would think China funds many of Commiefornia politicians. Could they have flexed their muscle and got this “fixed”?
Also, Panama Canal is old (have they widened it yet)? I have seen pictures of ships with barely a few inches on each side to the canal walls. I think the biggest ships can’t make it thru the original canal. Unless, like I said the upgrades have been completed.
China operates the Panama Canal.
Yes, the canal has been widened to accommodate super heavy, wide container ships.
Thank you for the information. Didn’t realize that the canal has been widened, finished in June 2016, 49 meters wide.
I read the main Pacific port in Mexico, Manzanillo, was taken over by cartels after being modernized and updated perhaps because they could see the same need and intended to control it like mobsters do. The effects of the Suez blockage are still reverberating around the supply chain like ripples getting progressively weaker as people adapt. Sarc on/ California should stick to their guns and even increase the standards to zero emission only transport in and out of the state. Surely, the environmentalists there can line up bicycle brigades to transport what they need while the rest of the world works around them.
This Green New Deal and it’s associated scams are much more dangerous to the well being of the people than any pollutants.
Good work Sundance! However , even compliant trucks like I drove couldn’t get into LA port without a permit and then another permit! It was all a big scam, but the unions and the the State of CA never figured it could be a Democratic president that would get stuck with the problem. It was never about clean air or whatever else they tried to blame it on. Good for em!
Nice one
Love it! The bare shelves are one of ChiCom Joe’s achievements! But the corrupt leftist msm will never identify the real cause of the shipping container backlog as Sundance has! Godspeed Sundance!
Keep em coming! We’ll keep em spreading. ?
Scrolling down saw funny image. Scrolled back up, saying to myself,
“Is this from Kleen?”
This is why election integrity is so important. Every election since electronic voting should be thrown into doubt, this includes CA.
Same day in person voting only on specially designed paper. Voter ID. Thumb prints. Blind hand counting ballots by each party.
Attack Robot Army for Christmas??
A year from now, check the number of employees…..and why they gone.
What the F…
This country would experience an economic boom like nobody’s ever seen if we were just free to DO OUR F***ING JOBS! Communism is the most goddamned nutty thing imaginable.
Everything woke turns….
….to shit!
Then we have to muck through it.
Sundance, excellent reseach. There is also this issue of California’s AB-5. Socialists meddling in the affairs of private industry, changing the classification rules for employee versus contractor. A perfect storm of leftist policies causing this, nothing to do with Covid.
“Federal court rules California’s AB 5 applies to trucking, dealing blow to owner-operator model in stateMatt ColeTodd Dills
Apr 28, 2021″
https://www.overdriveonline.com/business/article/15065269/federal-court-deals-blow-to-california-ownerops-with-ab-5-ruling
This is an important contributor to the problem too.
Lib leadership…. I know, I know.
It’s a contradiction of the most severe order.
That certainly explains why the Toyota dealerships have almost zero “made in Japan” inventory. The Tacoma Pro series, there are only 9 new ones available in the entire USA as of today.
Well, it’s not like ships diverted to the East Coast are being immediately unloaded. We were deep sea fishing off the Atlantic Coast last week and our captain was telling us about all the ships stacked up offshore and near shore waiting to unload. Their lights were visible in the dark, and later we saw them in the daylight.
Globalist depopulationists Agenda:
‘Poison them, maim them, starve them, ruin their children… WHATEVER IT TAKES!‘
Will citizen-victims ever take the gloves off and respond with WHATEVER IT TAKES ?
Or is this only supposed to go one way?
So, a regulatory agency (EPA) made a rule that benefits huge corporations at the expense of the small businesses (owner/operator). That is exactly consistent with most other pandemic government decisions. Fight the Oligarchs!
Nancy Pelosi and her nephew Gavin Newsom should both hang for their parts in destroying so much of what was good in America. And so should all those who helped and supported them!
Can’t the US Army supply brand new state-of-the-art trucks for these left out truckers?
They supplied $85 Billion in brand new state-of-the-art military equipment to the Taliban.
I think Austin and Milley should get right on it.
Every time someone suggest that the army do it to me smacks of that is such a slippery slope to total government takeover of whatever they’ve got the army doing nationalize all the beds businesses that would be Biden’s ideal
Great research! Is this why DeSantis is offering to port the ships recently? Pretty sure Florida is not part of Green (Red) New Deal.
Fixed It For You
“Watermelon New Deal”????
FFS do any of these people actually think through their,proposals,or,do they just do it and deal with the consequences later. I refuse to believe the people in charge are this stupid. So all I’m left with is it must be intentional. And when you reach that pointvthat’s where the “conspiracy theories” start to flourish.
for a bunch of people that hate conspiracy theories they sure go out of their way to create them….
I wish I had half of his energy and optimism.
This is the greatest news ever! Thank you Mike Lindell!!!
I would switch to his alternative in a nano second.
And Prior to the 2020 EPA settlement agreement:
In February of 2018 the California Air Resources Board announced that starting in 2020, the California State Department of Motor Vehicles would begin blocking registration with the CA’s DMV if the trucks were older than 2011 or using engines manufactured before 2010…
The California Air Resources Board declared that the new “health based requirements” would need to be met before a driver is allowed to register their vehicles through the CA DMV.
The California Air Resources Board in February 2018, also declared that they didn’t have to wait until 2020 and the spokesman added, “that the Truck & Bus Regulation is already in effect, and the Board can place a DMV ‘regulation block’ on vehicles now if those vehicles don’t meet current air quality regulations.”
This sells trucks and rakes registration fees. Its not about health but coin.
I read that the trucks must be electric by 2035 so no one is willing to invest in new compliant trucks.
After containers are unladen, the importer/consignee/forwarder has usually about a week before paying demurrage (storage), which can total hundreds of dollars a day per container. Once picked up, there is a similar time limit to return the container (detention), after which more charges are assessed.
Also, nobody wants their container sitting on the pier subject to pilferage (theft). Decades ago there was a US Customs Patrol to provide a level of security on the piers and sheds. Long gone.
The vessels sitting at anchor, waiting to discharge, are also incurring massive losses for their operators. And by the way, are not their idling engines producing pollution?
Also, containers often carry perishables, some in reefers (refrigerated) some not. Even flowers arrive containerized. Plus food stuffs.
The Customs formalities do not really enter into the equation. Importers can file their entries days before vessel arrival and receive a clearance. After freight is unladen, the importer has 30 days to make entry. I only mention this because I expect that the Administration might well announce they are streamlining Customs procedures to reduce backlog. The “procedures” are already well streamlined .
Good point. I guess when the boat is idling in international waters, it is not CA’s problem. Unless a boat anchor happens to drag on an oil pipeline laying on the sea floor, but what are the odds of that happening?
Depends on whose anchors are dragging the ocean floor. Looking for whatever mischief will occur. ??
Thanks for further detail.
So, we know where the EPA people “live”, if you can say what they do “living” ~ but it’s obviously their top end lawyers who are the problem and they are all in the Washington DC area, likely Montgomery county.
These are the same guys who had written rules such that oil removing equipment could not be used in the Gulf blow-out to clear the ocean of oil!
Smart bunch.
Too bad The Donald didn’t get around to firing them…..
(I’d just bet most of them have bat houses on their homes and they are raising animals who can carry COVID 19)
(pure evil)
President Trump couldn’t fire anyone. The Deep State wouldn’t let him.. Mainly Turtle Mcconnell.
interesting.
Tuesday night I arrived for a stay in Rancho Mirage Mission Hills resort. What do I see EVERYWHERE? Gas powered landscape equipment. And then insult to injury – the person I’m renting from told me to make sure the lights are off if I’m not using them and don’t cool the place too much because “electricity is very expensive”. Wait until the landscape companies have to raise their rates to cover the cost of new equipment and electricity to run it. STUPID STUPID RATS!!
My next vacay to sunshine will be to a sane place – Florida.
There was a caller on Buck & Clay’s show today talking about this very issue about the trucks, great job Sundance you always get to the heart of the matter. 🙂
Why doesn’t Warren Buffet send more trains?
Who is John Galt?
I’m tired of being lied to Every Day by a Phony President and a DSP leadership that doesn’t give a damn about this country or the people in it