tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post5586896275920473158..comments2024-03-28T16:03:02.583-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: The California trucking mess: It's a lot murkier than it seemsPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-84804392298004257202021-10-22T13:19:28.688-05:002021-10-22T13:19:28.688-05:00More issues with empties and storage:
https://mobi...More issues with empties and storage:<br />https://mobile.twitter.com/typesfast/status/1451543776992845834Ray - SoCalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293232996007277071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-18902983381238150992021-10-20T09:46:42.021-05:002021-10-20T09:46:42.021-05:00The time to upgrade throughput at CA's ports w...The time to upgrade throughput at CA's ports was <i>20 years ago.</i><br /><br />Califrutopia is going to be paying the penalty for three terms of Moonbeam Jerry Brown as governor for decades after I'm dead and cold.<br /><br />This is just the most recent example.<br /><br /><br />@Wraith,<br />I would <i>loooooooove</i> to hear your first-person take on what you know about what you know, from your front-row seat.<br /><br />Please, do share.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-46657175590903725492021-10-19T22:58:33.604-05:002021-10-19T22:58:33.604-05:00Old Spanish Proverb.
God take man take what you ...Old Spanish Proverb. <br /><br />God take man take what you want and pay for it. <br /><br />A whole lot of people don't want to pay for skilled labor so they aren't getting it.<br /><br />Sow, Reap.5stonegameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10694550968360550229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-61738824433697934292021-10-19T21:21:30.455-05:002021-10-19T21:21:30.455-05:00Going down the rabbit hole it seems the foreign ow...Going down the rabbit hole it seems the foreign owned docks were trying to cut costs by using more “unskilled” labor”, which per the unions slowed things down.<br /><br />https://theloadstar.com/ilwu-lays-blame-for-us-supply-chain-failures-at-the-door-of-foreign-operators/<br /><br />And carriages were sent to third parties, which the union also claims slowed down loading of trucks.<br /><br />https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/13/supply-chain-biden-backs-running-west-coast-ports-24-7-to-ease-bottlenecks.html<br /><br />And the ports have been working at reduced capacity due to whatever the most recent Ca Covid Rules are.<br /><br />My guess is the dockworker union has a lot more responsibility for this back up then has come out so far.<br /><br />I’m curious about any capital plans to increase the throughput for The LA and Long Beach ports. Seem not much recently:<br /><br />https://www.porttechnology.org/news/fenix-expands-capacity-with-new-sts-crane-order/<br /><br />The current mayor of LA, Garcetti,is very careful to upset no one, so gets nothing done. He is supposed to become the Ambassador to India. He is basically a lame duck.<br /><br />The Ca Governor, Newsom, does nothing unless it helps him personally. <br /><br />Alameda corridor has made rail a lot more efficient getting trains out of la county easier by adding under and over passes. Only negative is they take forever to get built. I think we are in year 4 of a 2 year project for two near my house, with no reliable completion date forecast.Ray - SoCalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293232996007277071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-34671755214386580382021-10-19T21:20:34.204-05:002021-10-19T21:20:34.204-05:00@ Paul: I'm a 25-year truck driver and I have...@ Paul: I'm a 25-year truck driver and I have run the LA ports.<br /><br />You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Sit down and be quiet.Wraithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02791730539181731523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-72878629677477018732021-10-19T14:28:48.932-05:002021-10-19T14:28:48.932-05:00As someone with a commercial drivers license in CA...As someone with a commercial drivers license in CA (I don't make my living from it), the claims of excessive hours don't ring true.<br /><br />The penalties to the companies for falsified records and violating thee hours of service are very high (IIRC, something like $10k per violation), and several years ago laws were passed to make the reporting of hours not be a paper log, but an electronic device wired into the truck<br /><br />and even if the logs are faked, once there is a tip about it, it's easy enough to track a particular truck (given the number of traffic cameras on the freeways around Los Angeles, this can probably be done from an office using publicly available cameras)<br /><br />Drivers suckered into paying a lease instead of a purchase are probably out of luck. not reading and understanding the fine print on contracts (especially ones costing you that much) is a recipe for disaster.<br /><br />David LangUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12084309137541367977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-45998207501422185412021-10-19T14:27:48.291-05:002021-10-19T14:27:48.291-05:00YW.
(Wait...salty language? Moi? Well, yeah. Guilt...YW.<br />(Wait...salty language? <i>Moi?</i> Well, yeah. Guilty.)<br /><br />The no-axe-to-grind-and-no-real-dog-in-this-fight links I provided to the BBC page noted that<br />1) US <i>orders</i> to China are <b>25% higher</b> this year than even their peak in pre-COVID days, when the economy was positively booming. That's YUUUUUUUUUGE.<br />2) Excess cargo handling capacity at the SoCal ports tops out at about 5% over normal. That means, inevitably, that every 5 days (20%+20%+20%+20%+20%=100%. QED.), the ports get another day behind. A current 20-day backlog means this problem has been piling up for the last 100 days.<br />[Math: Still a thing.]<br />3) There is no shortage of trucks in CA, nor of trucks that can pick up cargo at the ports.<br />4) There is <i>absolutely</i> a shortage of enough trucks in the US to deal with a 500,000 container glut of inbound loads, which is what's sitting off LA/LB right this minute.<br />FTR, there are only 2M semi trucks in the entire country. If we sent 1 out of every 4 trucks in the US and truckers to drive them to the port, right this minute, the convoy would stretch from LA to NYFC, two lanes wide, bumper to bumper with no gaps, and still have enough left over to get to Boston and Bangor Maine.<br />And even if that happened, that would just catch things up to current. <br />5) Multiple entities have acted to make the truck driving lemon not worth the squeeze, and fewer and fewer people want to play, as you've noted. Trucking companies have gone begging for drivers hereabouts for years, but no one wants to play in a rigged game. And even the unions like the teamsters do everything in their power to pull the ladder up behind them, and leave drivers either forced to work for non-union haulers, while they even shaft their newer union members in order to secure golden goose eggs for the old-timer membership. Why would a new driver want to pay union dues to be treated like a second-class citizen, when they can get that exact treatment from unscrupulous trucking companies for free?<br />6) The "newer" trucks the ports require include <i>anything built in the last 11 years</i>. That's literally half the trucks on the road, right this minute, which constitutes no such "shortage" of available vehicles. Anybody spinning that tale obviously consulted sources in his own underpants.<br />6) All of the above makes the original suggestion (subsequently doubled down upon by the original author) that this was wholly the fault of an obscure and mostly irrelevant law nothing but a barrel of codswallop.<br /><br />Not being a fan of foolish assertions, and driving regularly in the region in question, it only took about 5 minutes to shoot that obvious fairytale to dollrags without even reloading. People who put such stuff out and think no one will ever find out or figure it out are as yet unaware that the internet is a thing, and it's not going away.<br /><br />Neither is addition and multiplication.<br />Common Core grads should pay heed.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-13799131654718104842021-10-19T12:28:53.118-05:002021-10-19T12:28:53.118-05:00...these ships are staging military equipment the ......these ships are staging military equipment the Regime will need when the great vaks die off starts and fiod is scarce? CheezusCrackershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17229924255877912453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-82502949067187424632021-10-19T12:27:23.306-05:002021-10-19T12:27:23.306-05:00Aaand maybe...Aaand maybe...CheezusCrackershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17229924255877912453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-88352317182818784332021-10-19T09:55:06.669-05:002021-10-19T09:55:06.669-05:00That kind of over heated rhetoric sounds like npr....That kind of over heated rhetoric sounds like npr.<br /><br />You cannot drive for 20 hours as the nation wide cdl only allows for 14 hours of continuous service. Ie if your dat starts at 8 am it is done 14 hours later no matter if the truck covered distance or not. That is why most of the bigger firms use two drivers. <br /><br />Yes, trucks could be the bottle neck, but I think it is more a finely tuned system that cannot handle burps.<br /><br />That means you cannot flex up for a large ibfoux of product that has been ordered by wal-mart or target or whomever.<br /><br />No, we are seeing the natural result. Which cannot be as sexy and juicy as those nasty companies abusing the drivers making them quit. <br /><br />Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708868713277676628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-62722676113619837372021-10-19T08:40:47.957-05:002021-10-19T08:40:47.957-05:00As someone stated to at Aesop's, embrace the p...As someone stated to at Aesop's, embrace the power of AND.<br />JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-5252100129142094532021-10-19T08:33:51.833-05:002021-10-19T08:33:51.833-05:00If you look deep enough, you'll find the worst...If you look deep enough, you'll find the worst of the problem is rooted in the corruption of government, excessive regulations, and those that manipulate to increase their profits by contributing to politicians and unions. The problem could be easily solved, but it's California, and will never be.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15969361446367636746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-40677463222906705822021-10-19T07:48:13.905-05:002021-10-19T07:48:13.905-05:00Indentured servants owing their souls to the compa...Indentured servants owing their souls to the company store? Sounds like Silicon Valley's corporate dream! But expecting prospective employees to go massively into debt to Big Education before signing on with the corporate plantation is a little less blatantly crooked.<br />Hm. How many port trucking companies are there in California, what are the barriers to entry, how tightly have they been regulated over the decades, and to what extent does the ownership overlap?Eric Wilnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04351991168469225129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-80699829176381725682021-10-19T07:46:50.258-05:002021-10-19T07:46:50.258-05:00AB5 that caused most independent workers to be cla...AB5 that caused most independent workers to be classified as employees, except for politically favored industries, was union backed and aimed at the non unionized gig economy, trucking was not specifically targeted.<br /><br />From what picked up:<br /><br />1. Retail sales are up 18% in the us per a housing economist I heard on a webinar.<br /><br />2. Larger ships are being used that take longer to unload due to consolidation to reduce costs <br /><br />3. Ca ports require a newer truck to be used<br /><br />4. Trucking is a hard job and was relatively blow paid, so the option of other income options is very attractive. Such as Covid unemployment payments.<br /><br />5. Us now limits the hours a truck driver can drive<br /><br />6. Lots of uncertainty about the future of trucking. Lots of press about automated truck driving. Why choose a carrier with a bleak future?<br /><br />7. My guess, no data, but the Ca ports probably have not increased their throughput / efficiency with more automation, cranes, etc due to the dock worker union. A couple of years ago they fought bar coding. I wonder if the use transponders, rfid, on each container?<br />Ray - SoCalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293232996007277071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-89427689326282716112021-10-19T07:00:18.301-05:002021-10-19T07:00:18.301-05:00I blame part of the problem on social and televisi...I blame part of the problem on social and television media. It has had a Pavlovian result on the populace at large, and they now have the attention span of 140 characters. <br /><br />Everything has complexity and nuance, but nobody wants to invest the time into truly understanding something any more. Unless it's "panem et circensus", then people will invest gobs of time into their fantasy football league, celebrity antics, clothing, hairstyles, and foppish life in general. <br /><br />Keyser Sozehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01604499521843704659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-941505105487677522021-10-19T06:26:19.664-05:002021-10-19T06:26:19.664-05:00These things are usually messier than just a simpl...These things are usually messier than just a simple answer. Which usually also means that resolving them is not going to be easy, what with the knee-jerk laws that get passed and the unintended consequences thereof. Cedarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06335404569894164715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-78670913605302581072021-10-19T06:11:32.561-05:002021-10-19T06:11:32.561-05:00Then there are union slowdowns at the dock too.......Then there are union slowdowns at the dock too....<br /><br />https://www.yahoo.com/news/lazy-crane-operators-making-250-200100567.html<br />Dan Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141746429597604022noreply@blogger.com