California truck shortage..

[ironglow]

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   From a california contributor to mu FP;


  "The NEWS says the California port situation is caused by a driver shortage.
Not so fast: It is in part caused by a California Truck Ban which says all trucks must be 2011 or newer and a law called AB 5 which prohibits Owner Operators.
Traditionally the ports have been served by Owner Operators (non union).  California has now banned Owner Operators.
Long term, truckers in California are not investing in new trucks because California has a law that makes them illegal in 2035.  The requirement is to purchase electric trucks which do not exist.
And in the words of Paul Harvey, “Now you know the rest of the story”
BUSINESS
CARB to begin blocking certain trucks’ DMV registrations in 2020
Carriers domiciled in California with trucks older than 2011 model, or using engines manufactured before 2010, will need to meet the Board’s new Truck and Bus Regulation beginning in 2020 or their vehicles will be blocked from registration with the state’s DMV, the state has said.
The new “health-based requirements” will need to be met before a driver is allowed to register his or her truck through the Department of Motor Vehicles, CARB says. A new enforcement tool used by the DMV beginning in 2020 will automatically block 2010 and older trucks."

[Dee]

When I owned my own trucking company (it was small) I had to quit California.
The "California Ports of Entry" discouraged Texas trucks coming into their state.
Even 30 years ago they ha no idle laws no matter how hot, or cold the weather.
Trucks on highways like the 101 were not allowed to pass slow trucks by getting in the  3rd lane, regardless of how slow that truck was going up a hill.

[VA Rifleman]

IG. Listened to a independent trucker (talk show) who echoed everything in your post.

He also added dock workers are paid by the hour while truckers by the load and it’s not cost effective to sit in line for 10 hours to get one load.

Also mentioned Vax requirements for CA and NY truckers but I haven’t been able to confirm.

Not to worry. Buttigieg is back from maternity leave and will now allow truckers to drive in the night which most of us find odd.

[ironglow]

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  Laws made by legislators who have no first hand knowledge of the area they are subjecting to their "laws" !

[Ranger99]

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  Laws made by legislators who have no first hand knowledge of the area they are subjecting to their "laws" !

Well that's everything today, every industry,
every corporation
Gazillions of people with the business
management degree that couldn't run a
1950's lemonade stand without
bankrupting it

[Ranger99]

Tell me again what was AOC's
qualifications before being elected
to a post in the national legislature?

[Ranger99]

What about the veep aside from her
reputed "oral prowess " ?

[Dee]

Buttplugg takes maternity leave is obscene in its mere thought. The United States government has lost its collective mind, and the American Male in that context is fast becoming a dying mythical character, with that space occupied by rickety old men of yesteryear.

[Mule 11]

I bet the child is a boy. That way they can pass along their mental illness...

[BUGEYE]

I thought most truckers, owners or otherwise, belonged to the teamsters.

[Dee]

I thought most truckers, owners or otherwise, belonged to the teamsters.

Nope! I would never join a union. I ain't paying dues for something I don't get anything back from.
A lot of "local drivers", and dock workers were union depending on the area, and 100% of the time, were a pain in the ass to deal with.
As a general rule, local drivers get paid by the hour, while long haul pays by the mile, or a percentage of the load.
I leased my trucks on to a company, that got my loads for me. If I didn't like the load, or destination, I'd turn the loads down.
The companies I chose paid my tractors by the mile, and also furnished the trailers, while I furnished the power units, and teams.

[ironglow]

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    My neighbor has a fleet of Mack trucks and buys fuel weekly.  Before the last election, his weekly diesel bill was $20,000, ...Now it is $32,000 when the same truck delivers the same load.  This cost has to be passed on...

  Stupid said he would only "tax the rich" !

[DDZ]

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    My neighbor has a fleet of Mack trucks and buys fuel weekly.  Before the last election, his weekly diesel bill was $20,000, ...Now it is $32,000 when the same truck delivers the same load.  This cost has to be passed on...

  Stupid said he would only "tax the rich" !

I think stupid, and his Marxist gang, know very well who the high cost of fuel is being passed onto.  Its basically anyone that buys a product that is transported by ship, plane, truck, or train.  Its part of the plan to turn America into a economic third world country. Tell the ignorant sheep only the rich guys are getting taxed, and the ignorant sheep in turn vote for them, because they think rich guys have to much money.   

[ironglow]

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   Whatthe stupid voters don't realie is that if they get their communist Utopia, there will only be the very, very rich (Davos type).. the very,very poor...and almost no middle class.

   Just take a look at Cuba, the old Soviet Union, the old "eastern bloc", North Korea and Venezuela..

   Anyone with as much as half an active brain, should be able to figure it out !