re: "Literally Impossible": Trucking Companies Brace For California's 2024 Electric Mandate

It's digusting how California is holding the entire trucking industry by the balls and had their northern neighbors doing the same shite.

Wanna know why it takes three miles for a truck to get to 55 mph and why they slow down so much going up hills and mountains? California emissions neutered the power under the hood.

Wanna know why trucks have to get out in the left lane way sooner than normal to pass other trucks? California mandated the "assisted braking" nonsense which makes trucks stay certain distances from other vehicles. They have to move to the left lane then speed up. It's so damned stupid but those politicians don't have to deal with it on the roads.

This electric truck nonsense is never going to work, but they don't care because it they can be super smug about signing shite legislation that affects the whole country to get their names in the papers. For a truck stop to be able to charge all of the parked trucks overnight, they'll need the same amount of power used for a Super Bowl in the Superdome. That's EVERY TRUCK STOP in this country every night - not to mention all of the private parking lots and warehouses. Let's also talk about range. Are they magically going to pop up charging stations for thousands of trucks trying to get across the desert leaving Southern California? Or how's about that 12k ft climb to get up and over Donner to Reno and points west? The range on electric trucks is about 300 miles on flat land. That means for a truck driver would have to stop approx 10-15 times for several hours to get produce from the Mexican border up to the northeast, in comparison to 4 or 5 fuel stops that takes 15-20 minutes.

This is so stupid.

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Just stop delivering goods to CA. Problem solved.

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The problem is all those Asian goods we receive in the port of LA, not what we send there.

Anyone that supports this is a fricking idiot.

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The problem is all those Asian goods we receive in the port of LA, not what we send there.

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Plenty of other options, you just have to plan for extra time on the water. It can actually be cheaper to come to east coast.

Of course, I'd love to say frick both CA and China and just truck shite up from Mexico if we really need third world produced stuff.

for a regional type carrier to charge all their trucks at once, i think I heard it would take more power than most normal sub stations have.

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for a regional type carrier to charge all their trucks at once, i think I heard it would take more power than most normal sub stations have.

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I saw a clip of a congressional hearing this week, a guy was talking about making a request fo the draw to charge 30 something trucks, the power company thought the request was a joke because it was so huge.

The problem with moving the shipping to the East Coast is the contain er ships that don't fit through the Panama Canal. I don't know what percentage are too big, maybe someone else does. I don't know how going around the globe by the southern great circle looks in comparison to the northern one.

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Savannah needs to expand truck parking, big time. Getting as bad as the northeast to find a parking spot out there in the southern half of i-95. I picked up a load of sugar from the port area and couldn't find a parking spot for 30 miles at 4pm.

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And that's not to mention the 95 corridor there...always, always jammed. Forget going east.

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I guess you could ship it to Seattle or expand rail use but you are adding to shipping costs massively.

If you have to go through the Panama Canal to FL, TX or GA you’ve added a ton of time and fuel costs to your shipping.

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None of this is possible, because we don’t have the port capacity without the CA ports.