re: Can someone explain to me why we are having issues at the ports like I am 5?

It’s a distraction from something else that they are doing and don’t want anyone to watch. Look over here, not here.

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What you need to know about the supply chain bottlenecks

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After slashing prices and laying off workers at the onset of COVID-19, manufacturers, suppliers and retailers have struggled for months to meet the quick rebound in demand unleashed by unprecedented federal aid and highly effective coronavirus vaccines.

Consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in September and 5.4 percent in the 12 months leading into it, according to data released Wednesday by the Labor Department. Much of the September jump came from rising food, energy and shelter prices — an economically challenging mix for Americans with tight budgets and a politically toxic combination for President Biden and Democrats.

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Deepening backlogs at ports and worker shortages at nearly every point in the supply chain have also left shelves depleted of popular products — just as Americans begin planning out their holiday purchases.

“The demand is there. There's close to $2 trillion in savings sitting in household accounts, the American consumer is flush with cash, and ready to move back towards what we might consider normal modes of consumption,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at audit and tax firm RSM.

While the Biden administration is scrambling to ease the problem, Brusuelas warned that only time will fully normalize supply lines.

“At this point there's not much that the federal government can do to what can accurately be described as a behavioral shock,” he said.

But as the delta variant caused a global resurgence in COVID-19 cases, supply chains buckled again while demand chugged along.

The issues around the supply chains are not driven exclusively by consumption, but rather by ports that are not open 24 hours a day, a lack of labor specifically within the trucking industry, to move goods from ports to warehouses to stores, and the lack of labor and the warehouses themselves, which are also not open 24 hours a day,” Brusuelas said.

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No doubt. But, JIT is smart in any case. So, long a global pandemic does not interrupt supply chains and then an incompetent asshat gets put in charge because he is not orange.

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During covid many truckers retired. More than that idk.

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You guys need to understand what the clearinghouse did to my industry.

It essentially, when put together, would be the equivalent of the 13th largest transportation team quitting overnight.

200k+ truck drivers let go

It’s intentional. For people with the defense that it’s a shortage of workers, they knew what would happen with the mandates. They game plan all this crap in their think tanks

I also know firsthand that DC's/warehouses are backed up unloading trucks due to their own labor.

Trucks are waiting for days (yes days) in some cases to unload.

So, now you have trucks captive that should be hauling. This eventually would bottleneck at ports all by itself, even without the additional issues we have.

Yep. Once ship sailing schedules get delayed, it all turns to shite. They are the proverbial bottle neck in the system

When you put people in positions of authority and their job isn’t to get the job done, but to insure that sufficient political correctness is applied this is what you get.

None of them are problem solvers, they got in the positions they hold because they’re good at kissing the right arse. When a problem arises none of them know what to do.

So they pass the buck to their superiors which eventually gets to Biden, who was a clueless corrupt moron when he had a functioning brain.

So yes, what they’re going to do is blame Trump for the mess they created because they’re too stupid to do anything else

According to the FMCSA, 40,000 drivers were taken off the road last year because of failed drug tests. As of May only about 6000 had been reinstated.

Basically the DOT and upper powers turned up the heat on transporation carriers.

If you haven't been giving out drug test - your gone

failed a drug/alcohol test in the past 3 years? - your gone

Haven't implemented the new log book - your gone

Alot of drivers are also having submit their information into a new DOT driver database. These older fellas don't like all the snooping and lot of them just up and retired.

Also keep in mind guys, the average age of a truck driver is like 54




And I would also like to state this was not a Brandon Administration ordeal per say. This happened on Trumps time. Not that it matter who the president is, just trying to stay as close to middle ground as possible to give you guys the information and not my biased opinion.