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Shipping Companies Struggle to Find Truck Drivers to Ease Port Backlogs...NEW NORMAL BITCHEZZZ | |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
Offer Upgrade  User ID: 80802281 10/11/2021 06:18 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.breitbart.com (secure)] Shipping companies across the nation on Monday are reportedly struggling to find truck drivers to ease port backlogs on the east and west coasts. Old Dominion Freight Line will reportedly hire any driver with or without experience, KHQ NBC reported Sunday. The need is so great, Old Dominion held a job fair Saturday to “hire 10 line drivers who can haul several trailers across the state” while offering to train anyone who wishes to earn a C.D.L. license. Michael Deneen with Old Dominion told KHQ the pandemic has made finding truck drivers more difficult  due to the unemployment checks that drivers may be receiving from Democrat-controlled states. Deneen also thinks the labor shortage will carry over and impact the 2021 holiday season and beyond. “Christmas is going to be, this year is going to be impacted greatly by not just trucking but through the whole logistic network is a little bit out of whack,” Deneen said. “So buy early, we’re going to work ourselves out of it but it’s going to be a couple of years of going through this new normal right now.” Co-head of AlixPartners’ retail consulting practice, Joel Bines, told the Financial Times Sunday retailers will have difficulty securing the “most in-demand” items this year for Christmas because of the supply chain crisis. In other words...It's the new normal Bitchezzzz so get used to it.....Oh and you're going to pay a whole lot more for it! PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
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| Don Draper from Nantucket
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| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 80802281 10/11/2021 06:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Time to round up a bunch of them there Hatians and give em all CDL's and tell em to hit the road...just not the way had hoped they would hit the road. PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
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| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 80802281 10/11/2021 06:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80202486 United States10/11/2021 06:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79671271  United Kingdom10/11/2021 07:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like wages aren't paying enough. Kick up wages, and you'll find enough people. $50 per hour $100 per hour $200 per hour Whatever it takes. If the shipping issue was real, and as big of a deal as they make it to be, it could easily be resolved. But it won't be. IT'S BY DESIGN. Obvious tell. |
| Larphillips
User ID: 78895011 United States10/11/2021 07:10 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I’m confused….and this is ABSOLUTELY not an informed view…but here in NE Ohio, I still see just as many trucks on the roads now as I did pre-pandemic. When you travel the big highways and turnpikes as much as I do, you’d notice a difference if there was a substantial one. “A person is smart, people are stupid.” “Nobody knows until everybody knows” |
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| tkwasny
User ID: 77839169 United States10/11/2021 07:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The docking ports (maritime and terrestrial) have nobody to move the product on or off. That's the backup point. I've heard of truckers wait 4 days for an offload. Last Edited by tkwasny on 10/11/2021 07:38 PM |
| themessengernevermatters
User ID: 80117407 United States10/11/2021 07:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Time to round up a bunch of them there Hatians and give em all CDL's and tell em to hit the road...just not the way had hoped they would hit the road. Quoting: Don Draper from Nantucket Hopefully it doesn't end up like Kramer and Newman strapping a rickshaw onto the homeless. “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.” Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs |
| The Daddylorian
User ID: 79473655 United States10/11/2021 07:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I’m confused….and this is ABSOLUTELY not an informed view…but here in NE Ohio, I still see just as many trucks on the roads now as I did pre-pandemic. When you travel the big highways and turnpikes as much as I do, you’d notice a difference if there was a substantial one. Quoting: Larphillips I'm noticing the same thing on the Gulf Coast. Just as many trucks as there ever was. Something doesn't add up. Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me. Or something |
| 4doggies
User ID: 80664795 United States10/11/2021 07:50 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I’m confused….and this is ABSOLUTELY not an informed view…but here in NE Ohio, I still see just as many trucks on the roads now as I did pre-pandemic. When you travel the big highways and turnpikes as much as I do, you’d notice a difference if there was a substantial one. Quoting: Larphillips Same here in Northern Illinois. Friggen' trucks everywhere! |
| 4doggies
User ID: 80664795 United States10/11/2021 07:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like wages aren't paying enough. Kick up wages, and you'll find enough people. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79671271 $50 per hour $100 per hour $200 per hour Whatever it takes. If the shipping issue was real, and as big of a deal as they make it to be, it could easily be resolved. But it won't be. IT'S BY DESIGN. Obvious tell. Yep. My daughters best friend works for an intermodal company here in the Chicago area. She tracks all the ships that arrive in the ports in the U.S. The government is telling them NOT to let these ships dock. The shortages of products is on purpose. |
| Cardiak
User ID: 78196003 United States10/11/2021 07:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like wages aren't paying enough. Kick up wages, and you'll find enough people. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79671271 $50 per hour $100 per hour $200 per hour Whatever it takes. If the shipping issue was real, and as big of a deal as they make it to be, it could easily be resolved. But it won't be. IT'S BY DESIGN. Obvious tell. $200 per hour would put that truck company out of business from anyone ordering from them. Truckers are middle men any money going to them is just passed on to the customer hence the huge inflation we are seeing this year. Material goes up, labor goes up, prices of goods go up, and the cycle keeps feeding itself. It’s not easy to get out of, watch how little $100 buys in 2025 |
| The Daddylorian
User ID: 79473655 United States10/11/2021 08:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like wages aren't paying enough. Kick up wages, and you'll find enough people. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79671271 $50 per hour $100 per hour $200 per hour Whatever it takes. If the shipping issue was real, and as big of a deal as they make it to be, it could easily be resolved. But it won't be. IT'S BY DESIGN. Obvious tell. Yep. My daughters best friend works for an intermodal company here in the Chicago area. She tracks all the ships that arrive in the ports in the U.S. The government is telling them NOT to let these ships dock. The shortages of products is on purpose. This is the only thing that makes sense. Manufacturing a crisis. Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me. Or something |
| N3M3S1S F$CKIT
User ID: 75327296 United States10/11/2021 08:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I flew over the port of Savannah, the second largest on the East Coast, last week. I’ve never seen so many containers sitting there. Talking 10’s of thousands. There are 31 ships sitting off the coast of Hilton Head and Savannah waiting to unload. There’s no way out of this backlog anytime soon. Also sat through a speech by the head of the GA pilots association. He said the largest ships now take 4 days to unload. More are incoming by the day. Do the math. |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 80802281 10/11/2021 08:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I’m confused….and this is ABSOLUTELY not an informed view…but here in NE Ohio, I still see just as many trucks on the roads now as I did pre-pandemic. When you travel the big highways and turnpikes as much as I do, you’d notice a difference if there was a substantial one. Quoting: Larphillips If I understand it right this is the excuse they are using for why all the back up at the ports, specifically Long Beach etc. Last time I checked there were like 70 cargo containers fully loaded and just sitting off shore waiting to unload. Add to that there is also something like 240 of the same ships loaded and ready to go off the 2 largest ports in China. So like literally hundreds of thousands of cargo containers to be shipped at some point once they are put on trucks. BICBW PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 80802281 10/11/2021 08:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I flew over the port of Savannah, the second largest on the East Coast, last week. Quoting: N3M3S1S F$CKIT I’ve never seen so many containers sitting there. Talking 10’s of thousands. There are 31 ships sitting off the coast of Hilton Head and Savannah waiting to unload. There’s no way out of this backlog anytime soon. Also sat through a speech by the head of the GA pilots association. He said the largest ships now take 4 days to unload. More are incoming by the day. Do the math. Wow I did not know that, but last I read there were 70 off the the coast of Long Beach Ca. PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 80802281 10/11/2021 08:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like wages aren't paying enough. Kick up wages, and you'll find enough people. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79671271 $50 per hour $100 per hour $200 per hour Whatever it takes. If the shipping issue was real, and as big of a deal as they make it to be, it could easily be resolved. But it won't be. IT'S BY DESIGN. Obvious tell. Yep. My daughters best friend works for an intermodal company here in the Chicago area. She tracks all the ships that arrive in the ports in the U.S. The government is telling them NOT to let these ships dock. The shortages of products is on purpose. This is the only thing that makes sense. Manufacturing a crisis. Yep that is definitely my belief as well. PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
| N3M3S1S F$CKIT
User ID: 75327296 United States10/11/2021 08:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I flew over the port of Savannah, the second largest on the East Coast, last week. Quoting: N3M3S1S F$CKIT I’ve never seen so many containers sitting there. Talking 10’s of thousands. There are 31 ships sitting off the coast of Hilton Head and Savannah waiting to unload. There’s no way out of this backlog anytime soon. Also sat through a speech by the head of the GA pilots association. He said the largest ships now take 4 days to unload. More are incoming by the day. Do the math. Wow I did not know that, but last I read there were 70 off the the coast of Long Beach Ca. Yes, CA has more ships sitting since that is the preferred route for Asian goods. Savannah has more coming from Europe, lots of vehicles come through coastal GA as well. I would say, on average, higher value goods come through the East coast ports by volume. |
| A Jackson
User ID: 80925742 United States10/11/2021 08:16 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You have to be drug free. With more and more states legalizing pot, every kid is smoking it. The hires can’t pass the pee test. Also you have to have some intelligence to drive a truck. When my son got his CDL there were 40 prospective drivers, fourteen left for drugs, another twelve for not being able to pass an open book test. Over half the class washes out. Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast. If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools. — Plato “AI is kind of a fancy thing, first of all it’s two letters. It means artificial intelligence.” Kamala Harris VPOTUS |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 80802281 10/11/2021 08:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You have to be drug free. With more and more states legalizing pot, every kid is smoking it. The hires can’t pass the pee test. Quoting: A Jackson Also you have to have some intelligence to drive a truck. When my son got his CDL there were 40 prospective drivers, fourteen left for drugs, another twelve for not being able to pass an open book test. Over half the class washes out. What year was that? I can only imagine it now with so many legal weed states! PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79879487  Hong Kong10/11/2021 08:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Seems like wages aren't paying enough. Kick up wages, and you'll find enough people. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79671271 $50 per hour $100 per hour $200 per hour Whatever it takes. If the shipping issue was real, and as big of a deal as they make it to be, it could easily be resolved. But it won't be. IT'S BY DESIGN. Obvious tell. Yep. My daughters best friend works for an intermodal company here in the Chicago area. She tracks all the ships that arrive in the ports in the U.S. The government is telling them NOT to let these ships dock. The shortages of products is on purpose. This is the only thing that makes sense. Manufacturing a crisis. Yep that is definitely my belief as well. Right on. Everyone above. Manufactured crisis. Very obvious.  |
| Don Draper from Nantucket
(OP) User ID: 80802281 10/11/2021 08:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: 4doggies Yep. My daughters best friend works for an intermodal company here in the Chicago area. She tracks all the ships that arrive in the ports in the U.S. The government is telling them NOT to let these ships dock. The shortages of products is on purpose. This is the only thing that makes sense. Manufacturing a crisis. Yep that is definitely my belief as well. Right on. Everyone above. Manufactured crisis. Very obvious. Yep and when it comes back...if it ever does.... then it will be twice the price for the goods...viola hidden inflation. PLATA BITCHEZZZZZZ UPGRADE UNAVAILABLE The Rolling Stones said it best... "What's confusing you is the nature of my game" |
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| Don Draper from Nantucket
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| Domari Nolo
User ID: 80310706 United States10/11/2021 08:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't know. From what I heard, truckers are on site waiting to get loaded, but there's almost no one at the cranes and docks unloading the ships and loading the trucks. It's at a snails pace. The truckers are there though. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 80991167 United States10/11/2021 08:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is a BS cover story. Trucking has been in freefall for the past 5 years. The real issue is quite simple - no supply. Only a trickle of goods are being manufactured all around the world. That's it. Period. Those containers on the ships off the CA coast? Empty. There's nothing in them. Literally. Everyone in procurement can testify that lead times for orders are now going over ONE YEAR OUT and it keeps being extended. Why? Cause ain't shit getting made. No parts. No resources. This is the real deal, folks. |
