Efforts to keep ports open to reduce ship backlog won't work
Oct 20, 2021 20:00:19 GMT -5
Post by OmegaMan on Oct 20, 2021 20:00:19 GMT -5
Efforts to keep ports open 24-7 to reduce cargo ship backlog aren’t going to work because insane trucking regulations in Dem-controlled California are keeping trucks off the road
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 by: JD Heyes
Tags: Biden regime, California, cargo shipping, chaos, climate change, Collapse, EPA, Los Angeles, ports, regulations, supply chain, transportation, truck drivers, trucking
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(Natural News) The U.S. is suffering through one of the worst transportation crises in the country’s history, with hundreds of container ships anchored off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts waiting days on end to get into port to be offloaded.
The Biden regime is particularly concerned with getting ports in California back on track because the bulk of the nation’s imports come into facilities in the Golden State. As such, the claimed president, Joe Biden, announced last week a few measures that he thinks will help, like Port of Los Angeles moving to a 24/7 work schedule.
Only, none of these measures are going to work and it’s thanks to the left-wing environmental and regulatory insanity imposed over years by the Democrats who run the place.
“The conventional wisdom from the left is that COVID is the reason that shipping containers are in the waters off California with no stevedores or truckers available to take care of them. The implication is that if people would stop being selfish and take the vaccines, the whole problem would magically vanish. That’s nonsense,” Andrea Widburg writes at the American Thinker.
In fact, the problem is directly related to a pair of laws the Democrat supermajority in the state passed, both having to do with favored issues and constituencies: Climate change hacks and the unions.
Widburg notes further that when you add in additional components — COVID-related benefits payments that discourage work as well as other issues that are simply unique to the seafaring cargo industry, and poof: “Empty Christmas stockings.”
And speaking of the ‘climate change’ issue, The Conservative Treehouse has more:
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 [means] 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. [Their emphasis]
The EPA reached a settlement with the California Air Resource Board to shut down rigs that were not compliant with the state’s new air quality standards in October 2020
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021 by: JD Heyes
Tags: Biden regime, California, cargo shipping, chaos, climate change, Collapse, EPA, Los Angeles, ports, regulations, supply chain, transportation, truck drivers, trucking
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(Natural News) The U.S. is suffering through one of the worst transportation crises in the country’s history, with hundreds of container ships anchored off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts waiting days on end to get into port to be offloaded.
The Biden regime is particularly concerned with getting ports in California back on track because the bulk of the nation’s imports come into facilities in the Golden State. As such, the claimed president, Joe Biden, announced last week a few measures that he thinks will help, like Port of Los Angeles moving to a 24/7 work schedule.
Only, none of these measures are going to work and it’s thanks to the left-wing environmental and regulatory insanity imposed over years by the Democrats who run the place.
“The conventional wisdom from the left is that COVID is the reason that shipping containers are in the waters off California with no stevedores or truckers available to take care of them. The implication is that if people would stop being selfish and take the vaccines, the whole problem would magically vanish. That’s nonsense,” Andrea Widburg writes at the American Thinker.
In fact, the problem is directly related to a pair of laws the Democrat supermajority in the state passed, both having to do with favored issues and constituencies: Climate change hacks and the unions.
Widburg notes further that when you add in additional components — COVID-related benefits payments that discourage work as well as other issues that are simply unique to the seafaring cargo industry, and poof: “Empty Christmas stockings.”
And speaking of the ‘climate change’ issue, The Conservative Treehouse has more:
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 [means] 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. [Their emphasis]
The EPA reached a settlement with the California Air Resource Board to shut down rigs that were not compliant with the state’s new air quality standards in October 2020
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