BMcL
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When did empty shelves in stores start to be in the news ? It was slow before; now it's stopped.The back log started a year ago not a few weeks ago.
When did empty shelves in stores start to be in the news ? It was slow before; now it's stopped.The back log started a year ago not a few weeks ago.
Thats the same thing that I am getting from all of these confusing newscasts and articles. It's empty containers littering one part of the docks all the way out to the streets and also full ones sitting on the docks that cannot be picked up fast enough.I think these are containers that have been delivered, emptied, and returned to the dock empty. Waiting for the ship to pick them up clogging the port logistics from unloading and moving the full containers. I read plenty of trucks except they are unable to off load the empties for return due to no space to stack more empty containers.
The port is so full of empties the trucks are off loading in residential neighborhoods.
This is contrary to the OP assertation that it is the "Green New Deal" clogging the ports. Not a trucking issue. Not an emissions issue.
And I read the truckers are waiting hours for a container to be released to them.and also full ones sitting on the docks that cannot be picked up fast enough.
Not stopped at all. Just that it now takes 10+ days to get in and get unloaded. More ships are showing up faster with more containers than ever before. Record volumes last year and this year.When did empty shelves in stores start to be in the news ? It was slow before; now it's stopped.
I think it is a problem on the entire West Coast from Seattle to San Diego. Volume is one of the contributors to bottle neck.Record volumes last year and this year.
Nothing wrong with unions.. the problems are rooted in the laws that protect them.And unions.
in the fifties and sixties we had a number of union strikes on the entire west coast. The only union issue I have heard about lately is some resistance to clerical automation. Are there bigger issues I am not aware of? One account said the average Lonshoreman makes $95,000 a year. I don't know if that number includes crane operators who reportedly make in excess of $200,000.And unions
Last I heard it was a trailer problem that was the key bottleneck. Clean air is not something I want to compromise on. As mentioned before, I grew up in LA. in the fifties and sixties when smog was so bad your eyes stung.More and more truckers are avoiding California :
What non-engineers don't understand is it may cost $5000 to clean something up 99%,So now it has come full circle that the thread is just about the cost of cleaning the exhaust. Nothing to do with the ports.
Enjoy it while you can. I assume within 20 years of the first EV truck the diesels days will be numbered.
Last I heard it was a trailer problem that was the key bottleneck. Clean air is not something I want to compromise on. As mentioned before, I grew up in LA. in the fifties and sixties when smog was so bad your eyes stung.
What non-engineers don't understand is it may cost $5000 to clean something up 99%,
but that last 1% may cost you a million bucks.
Trying to convince an environmentalist that costs matter is futile.
They will wreck and destroy an economy for almost ZERO benefit just to get that last .05% benefit that is practically meaningless.
Banning old trucks will not do anything noticeable for the air but it will damage our economy substantially.
I don't think we're quite ready to end the diesels quite yet.. going to be another two decades before battery tech comes far enough along.So the new trucks are going to be a million now? Preorder your Tesla Semi for just $200,000 and get a jump on the competition.
This is the beginning of the end for diesel. RIP.
And I don't think that will change. And I don't care what my friends in Texas give a hoot about. CARB is not likely to back down because they know the problem is not just a truck issue.You don't want to compromise on clean air.. but for those who live in Texas, or any other oil state, or any other similarly politically orientated state or area, they don't give a hoot about you breathing clean air
and the only halfway intelligent answer to date... no politics...no biden vs trump.... no comments about how california is f****d up.... just the truth...I have not followed this thread but I think the reason is we shipped our factories overseas.
ya figure? freaking air force....I lasted 20 months on the BNSF as a conductor then engineer for the above reasons. Retired from the Air Force and went to work for the RR, quickly learned the military was a lot better job than working on the RR.