I have mentioned this before, but it bears repeating:
Our supply chain problems have been inflicted on us not by purely by happenstance but by deliberate action taken by the idiots in California. Between an environmental directive that is forcing otherwise serviceable trucks off the roads in California and AB5, the so-called “Anti-Gig Economy” law, have seriously and negatively affected the number of trucks and drivers available to haul containers offloaded from ships in Long Beach and Los Angeles.
There is limited space to place off-loaded containers. Once they run out of space, off-loading stops. With an artificially limited number of trucks and/or drivers, space will not be made available any time soon and the problems won’t be corrected any time soon.
Is it any wonder Florida, Louisiana, and Texas have been drumming up business for their container ports? Even with the longer trip to the Gulf and East Coast ports through the Panama Canal, it’s cheaper than having container ships sitting at anchor for weeks on end.
If California really doesn’t want the port business, let’s oblige them and get that traffic to the Florida, Louisiana, and Texas ports. Let California suffer the consequences of their ignorant, ideologically-driven, and irrational actions. Lay the blame for these supply chain problems where they belong: Sacramento.
