re: CA to ban big rig diesel truck sales

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t’s time to change that. The south needs to get to building ports that can handle large amounts of commerce. Line em up through the canal and let us offload em down here.

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The south has ports that handle large amounts of tonnage, but they are built to handle different modes of transport. Mostly oil/gas, rice, etc. West coast handles cargo containers more from what I've seen. The Panama canal is a bottleneck also for some of those ships.