re: Prepare your anuses - domestic supply chain is about to get a lot worse come December

The big issue is that there literally aren’t enough trucks to satisfy the demand because of the supply chain issue facing automotive manufacturers. They need to allow the OEMs to go to the front of the line for chips etc because all other supply chain issues are compounded exponentially if there is a lack of trucks/parts.

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Amazon is offering a $10K/week guarantee for drivers during the holiday season.

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I've always said if I had no family or responsibilities I'd be a truck driver. I love driving and it would be a sweet gig and a way to see the country.

He’s fricked everything up so quick. This country needs help badly. Or else I don’t think it makes it to 2023. A revolution is going to occur

Let’s be clear:

COVID did not cause the supply chain crisis. Governments behaving tyrannically shutting down businesses and enacting lockdowns in response to Chinese propaganda (remember the guy convulsing in the streets in China, LMAO) is what caused the supply chain crisis.

Let'er rip!!

Society treats transportation workers like shite for the last 30 years, is shocked that people don't want those jobs anymore - next on Eyewitness News at 9.

Seriously though, look at what has happened to the trucking industry in the last decade -
1) electronic logging tracking your every move
2) constant regulations coming from dc
3) Ridiculous inspections fining the drivers for silly shite - $200 for clearance marker lights out, $350 per instance for logging off duty/sleeper birth incorrectly, etc etc
4) Low rates and higher expenses for owner operators
5) Truck stops charging 300-400% markup on common goods
6) Truck stops charging $20/night just to park
7) Truck stops taking out restaurants and leasing that space to fast food businesses
8) States closing rest areas
9) Increasingly unsafe driving from passenger cars
10) Less businesses (WalMarts) friendly to trucks so they can get food and supplies while on the road for weeks at a time
11) More and more trucking companies pushing lease purchases on drivers to stay employed - imagine having to agree to purchase the fryer at a 200% markup when going to work for McDonalds at your first job. This is what they're now pushing for the "opportunity" to get into the industry.
12) Warehouses not providing bathrooms for drivers when they're stuck there for multiple hours during loading/unloading
13) Lumpers. Warehouses hiring companies like Capstone logistics that charge $400 per trailer to get unloaded, that charge naturally gets passed to the drivers.

There's a lot more things that have gotten worse since I started driving semi's over a decade ago - very little has gotten better. It's not a complaint list - it's just my observations. The industry has become so riddled with corporate greed it's tough to find a company that will treat you like an employee and not a sack of meat sitting in a drivers seat just to turn miles. I thankfully made my way to a great company and get to avoid most of these problems, but for the vast majority of the industry - who is going to work and put up with all of this shite for a job making $60k/year? Very few. Things have to change, specifically corporate America has to go frick itself and start treating the employees/truckers better than this.

You can’t tell it at my company. There is so much shite in our warehouse that we have 5-6 weeks worth of inventory on hand with 10,000-12,000 pieces coming in nightly. (4-5 trucks a night)

Then just as domestic starts to recover in Q2 next year, international supply chains will come to a halt as the Longshoreman strike again during contract negotiations.

Only poor people wait to shop in December. This is a poor person problem

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Amazon is offering a $10K/week

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shite, where can I get one of those gigs? I’ve got my CDL…..I’ll take my 6 weeks of PTO from my engineering job to drive to make an extra $60K during the holidays!