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Here's a simple plan that @potus and @GavinNewsom partnered with the private sector, labor, truckers, and everyone else in the chain must implement TODAY to overwhelm the bottleneck and create yard space at the ports so we can operate against
1) Executive order effective immediately over riding the zoning rules in Long Beach and Los Angeles to allow truck yards to store empty containers up to six high instead of the current limit of 2. Make it temporary for ~120 days.
This will free up tens of thousands of chassis that right now are just storing containers on wheels. Those chassis can immediately be taken to the ports to haul away the containers
2) Bring every container chassis owned by the national guard and the military anywhere in the US to the ports and loan them to the terminals for 180 days.
3) Create a new temporary container yard at a large (need 500+ acres) piece of government land adjacent to an inland rail head within 100 miles of the port comple...
Seems like good, reasonable solutions, which is why fake potus and the powers that be will not even consider them, let alone implement them.
If Trump were President he would solve the bottle neck, and the ports would be operational within a week.
Additionally, the problems at the ports are a concatenation of numerous bottom-up, systemic problems with the workplace and society at large.
Micromanaging outside one's area of personal expertise is not considered a feature among executives anywhere.
That sounds a bit patronizing.HeadSet says
One leader may build a wall and have a remain in Mexico policy and start going after employers of illegals (the Tyson plant in Georgia),
Trump would then make one phone call to the property owner adjacent to the port and ask them pretty fucking please with a god damn cherry on top, can the port use your 100 acre lot to store empty trailers until we sort this shit out?
He did this on Twitter with serial Tweets. I am cutting & pasting it here.
Of course, he's grandstanding for his own benefit.
An empty 100 acre lot just conveniently sitting idle in some of the most densely developed out and expensive real estate on the coast? Sure buddy we'll get right on that. This is LESS useful than the actual show flexing Biden has done. Great job there, offering up solutions that don't even exist. Would you like assistance patting yourself on the back now?
Automan Empire saysAn empty 100 acre lot just conveniently sitting idle in some of the most densely developed out and expensive real estate on the coast? Sure buddy we'll get right on that. This is LESS useful than the actual show flexing Biden has done. Great job there, offering up solutions that don't even exist. Would you like assistance patting yourself on the back now?
There's plenty of space for empty containers.
https://zoom.earth/#view=33.76931,-118.248766,16z
The aerial picture can be several months, if not years, old.
Isn't that port owned by chinese?
Maybe they still have enough influence to snarl it at will.
what is their motive here, impeding flow of chinese commerce?
China can ill afford to willfully hurt revenue streams right now. They have enough shit collapsing already as it is.
started on some of his recommendations.
Why can’t companies retain truckers? One reason is that a bureaucratic mandate has changed the industry
“If you could change one thing about the trucking industry,” I ask Jack, “what would it be?”
“They won’t leave the logbooks alone,” he says. “Ever since they mandated ELDs, this industry got stupid.”
ELDs are “electronic logging devices.” Since 2017, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has mandated that most commercial drivers have ELDs hardwired to their engines to track their hours of service. That means truckers have a fourteen-hour window in which they can drive eleven hours, and they are required to be off-duty for at least ten consecutive hours. ...
The truckers I spoke to explained how the mandate cuts both ways by limiting drivers’ output and making them drive when they don’t want to.
“It forces you to drive, because your electronic log starts,” says Jack. “If you want to stop, you can’t. If you run into a friend and want to visit over a cup of coffee for a couple hours while you wait for rush hour to die down, you can’t.” ...
“By the time you wash your clothes, get something to eat, shower, you’re down to $225. Food on the road isn’t cheap. Every truck stop you go to — there’s drinks, coffee, showers — you’re spending money. I used to take 100 bucks a week when I’d go out. By Wednesday, I was broke.”
Jack tells me that under the ELD mandate, everyone is starting and stopping at the same time, because the truck drivers all pick up freight when the loading docks open first thing in the morning, they go all day because the clock is literally ticking, and they all stop at the same time when they simultaneously clock out at night.
Of course, he's grandstanding for his own benefit. And who cares about the 'global economy'? America just has to import what it NEEDS not anything that it can produce itself or is luxury items, after all. If that totally fucks up the rest of the world -- GOOD.
The main reason I posted this is because what he did here is what the fucking media SHOULD have done. They would have back in the day when they were actually in the business of investigating and collecting news to report, instead of printing shit up for clicks.
https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1451543776992845834