From what I understand, there's a shortage of employees for offloading the ships, and there's a shortage of drivers moving product out of the container yard. Movement of the containers within the yard is apparently mostly automated, which usually means slow moving.
No idea where the drivers are, but I know the trucking industry is suffering hard under this administration. I wonder if there are vaccine mandates in Cali or at the port that are preventing drivers from getting on-site? If I had to guess, it would be that most truckers would decline the shots.
I have been told by someone in the trucking industry that there are over 2500 trucks parked due to a failed emissions sensor that cannot be replaced. There are none left in the country to replace them with and the manufacturer for the replacements cannot get the materials to build new ones. Last he had heard the government was working with manufacturers to allow them to write a bypass for that sensor into a computer reflash. Not sure how true this is because I cant find any news on the subject, which incidentally lends credibility to his claim these days. Next time I see him I will try to find out more about which sensor it actually is.
No it’s new emission standards
All self created, the morons are running the docks with 500 rules and emission standards.
“Traditionally the ports have been served by Owner Operators,” Oakley says, who are non-union. But under AB-5, “California has now banned Owner Operators.” Just like the union longshoremen, union truckers work under a whole host of work rules that simply can’t accommodate crisis conditions like the ones in Los Angeles.
to shut down semi tractor rigs that were non-compliant with new California emission standards. [snip] In effect, what this 2020 determination and settlement created was an inability of half the nation’s truckers from picking up anything from the Port of LA or Port of Long Beach. Virtually all private owner operator trucks and half of the fleet trucks that are used for moving containers across the nation were shut out.
In an effort to offset the problem, transportation companies started using compliant trucks (low emission) to take the products to the California state line, where they could be transferred to non-compliant trucks who cannot enter California. However, the scale of the problem creates an immediate bottleneck that builds over time. It doesn’t matter if the ports start working 24/7, they are only going to end up with even more containers waiting on a limited amount of available trucks.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/empty-christmas-stockings-dont-blame-covid-blame-california
FUCKING COMMIEFORNIA. Just make a deal with whatever cartel runs Tijuana and bring the shit in through there.
Ahhh, see, this I could believe, especially in Cali.
I've heard the same thing, I've seen videos of service lots stuffed to the brim with big rigs waiting on like 1 sensor or emissions part, saying there was gonna be a huge shortage of transporters soon as a result.
This was 4 months ago.
Well my property developer in Florida cannot finish housing projects for reasons as small as a single kidding pane of glass not due for six months.
It's all breaking down. Only immediate fix is for the governmentd to collapse. (without regulations the property Dev could board up the window or use glass to a different standards or hand over to owners as is)
Almost but it’s the government as usual.
All self created, the morons are running the docks with 500 rules and emission standards.
“Traditionally the ports have been served by Owner Operators,” Oakley says, who are non-union. But under AB-5, “California has now banned Owner Operators.” Just like the union longshoremen, union truckers work under a whole host of work rules that simply can’t accommodate crisis conditions like the ones in Los Angeles.
to shut down semi tractor rigs that were non-compliant with new California emission standards. [snip] In effect, what this 2020 determination and settlement created was an inability of half the nation’s truckers from picking up anything from the Port of LA or Port of Long Beach. Virtually all private owner operator trucks and half of the fleet trucks that are used for moving containers across the nation were shut out.
In an effort to offset the problem, transportation companies started using compliant trucks (low emission) to take the products to the California state line, where they could be transferred to non-compliant trucks who cannot enter California. However, the scale of the problem creates an immediate bottleneck that builds over time. It doesn’t matter if the ports start working 24/7, they are only going to end up with even more containers waiting on a limited amount of available trucks.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/empty-christmas-stockings-dont-blame-covid-blame-california
That doesn't explain NO Activity at this port. It's the largest in the US
Well, the videos are like a minute long and don't show the whole yard so saying there's NO activity is a stretch. And I did see a container moving on a truck in the video from the high angle. Again, I think that's a robot, but it IS activity nonetheless. It isn't NO activity.
I agree it's weird, but I spent a good week moored near a MAERSK container yard overseas and aside from the trucks and cranes, there wasn't much going on. There usually aren't a lot of people walking around in container yards. Guys running the cranes, guys connecting the crane cables, and trucks. And again, short videos of parts of the yard.
According to Biden they are working 24/7. And one of the posts is from someone who works there but was told not to come in because there is no work.
Do you have any idea how big this port is or how busy it is on any given day? You don't have a clue.
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