Boy that is tough. We consume a lot of food as a nation. It’s best you not ask how the sausage is made.
Your goods would cost exponentially more because of transportation cost.
Sadly, dems can’t get out of their own way to get it done.
Some California shipments are being offloaded in Portland. You know, the city that Antifa burned to the ground a few years ago.
I’ll tell you this, I don’t remember ever seeing so many trucks on the road. Seems like it’s getting worse every day.
California’s requirements apparently affecting the availability of trucks in Seattle, too
Exponentially? Can you back that up with actual numbers?
Lots of trucks on I80 in PA. Saw an oddity yesterday. Car carrier with six Hyundai caught fire and burned all beyond salvation. Trailer was left along berm. There will be six sad faces when the buyers find out they are waiting another 3 months for their vehicle.
It looks like similar environmental rules are in effect in Seattle as well.
Another factor is the ban on owner-operator trucks. Union trucks operate under many more restrictions, which further limits the availability.
Problem No. 2, again according to Green, is California’s infamous AB-5, the law that, as a sop to the Democrats’ beloved unions, killed the gig economy:
“Traditionally the ports have been served by Owner Operators,” Oakley says, who are non-union. But under AB-5, “California has now banned Owner Operators.”
Just like the union longshoremen, union truckers work under a whole host of work rules that simply can’t accommodate crisis conditions like the ones in Los Angeles.
I suspect that similar environmental and labor restrictions are affecting the entire left coast.
Californication is screwing the nation.
Must be in effect across the US
A rush-hour accident on the interstate can result in backed-up traffic on alternate routes.
It is no surprise the eastern ports are heavily loaded from screw ups on the west coast.
AB-5 does not ban owner-operators from picking their loads or getting dispatched to the ports while leased under someone else’s authority.
AB-5 makes it a lot easier to stomp out all the foreign-owned, 1099 craigslist companies. They usually outright own the truck–or lease-purchase it to the driver–and illegally classify those drivers as independent contractors to underpay them and evade giving benefits. Good riddance to them.
Heck of a lot cheaper than letting the ships sit there off the coast of california not being unloaded.
What a screwed up state!
Yup. Calif keeps slitting its own wrists.
Docks and bacon previously discussed.
Now energy. Close fossil-fuel power plants and nuclear. Generate blackouts. 
Renewable energy cannot keep up with demand(not any time soon anyway). It takes a fool/fools to go ahead with it anyway.
Gavin Newsom has to be one of the dumbest and most authoritarian people ever to be governor.
I saw where his next move is going to be to order covid shots for all school children.
If i was a normal person i would flee the state. Those who support Newsom deserve what is coming.
That’s a loooong trip to take.
Personally, since older trucks apparently can’t directly service the ports, I’m seeing a business opportunity here to establish inland transfer points where the newer truckers are unhitched from their trailers, which are then hitched up to a rig not allowed to service the ports, and then the newer truck returns to the port. That way the newer truck are only used for the shorter and faster sub-route boosting their effective numbers compared to if they had then proceeded across country.
At worst these might have to be set up in Arizona or Nevada, though they might be possibly set up within California, just tens of miles away or however long to prevent the idiots running the State from trying to put a stop to it.
Add on to that the effects of EVs which will, as they become more common, demand much more from local power distribution than most neighborhoods are wired to support.
Those “wonderful” EV’s will only add to the problem and then during the rolling blackouts the EV owners will not be able to drive their vehicles.
Brilliant “thinking” by the left.
Hybrids used as hybrids, where electric assist the ICE in stop and go or similar situations rather than trying to use them as EVs that are supplemented by gas engines, can actually work well. It all depends on your emphasis and to which power source is ultimately the one used.
For example consider this analysis of the Chevy Volt that I came across (in bold italic below) that shows the folly of trying to be an EV till a battery (meant to supplement gas) runs down.
“For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine." Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9-gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles.
It will take you 4.5 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip, your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery. The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned, so I looked up what I pay for electricity.
I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh. 16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery. $18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery. Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine that gets only 32 mpg. $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 Mpg = $0.10 per mile.
The gasoline powered car costs about $25,000 while the Volt costs $46,000 plus.
Notice that the guy isn’t saying at which point I fill up the tank and keep moving? That’s what ordinary people would do. But he’s also saying he is driving as an EV till the battery is dead. Run as a hybrid with only short bursts of power from electric the car should be able to keep itself somewhat charged … though of course this requires burning more gas because alternators do not run themselves! But just the same it means occasionally replacing ICE with EV for those conditions where ICE is less than optimal but then using the gas for most of the time when it is.
Naturally a hybrid is a different beast from a full EV. The Volt’s relatively small battery and limited EV range is okay BECAUSE it’s meant to supplement, and not to be the main power source. Used properly hybrids scale as easily as gas to deliver power when and where it is needed. But no matter how much a Tesla battery holds a fleet of them a limited by a power grid not designed with them in mind and that the environmentalist will fight expanding it (the grid).
Oh, and as an aside, have you noticed people talking up that gas pumps need power to pump as if that creates an equivalency between gas and EVs? The amount of power to pump a full tank of gas worth of gas is negligible compared to that to charge an EV. A gas station could be adequately powered with a small generator, especially if taking cash only during a loss of services.
