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Shipping Companies Struggle to Find Truck Drivers to Ease Port Backlogs...NEW NORMAL BITCHEZZZ

 
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I let my cdl go bout 8 months ago, I'm done with this world.
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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.
 Quoting: Domari Nolo


Yep. There's enough rigs to move product. There's hardly any product to move, though. This 'blame the truckers', 'blame the lazy people who won't work' bs is just that. BS. It is true, though, that millions are being maimed and killed from the vax, though - rendering huge swaths of the population unable and unfit to work at all! They're taking it all down. All the rest is just redirect.
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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.
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I have this terrible feeling that you are right, especially as I see shelves at local stores not being replenished much anymore and car lots sitting empty. I think this really is game over as we know it.

I also think that the corporations knew last year that there were going to be mass layoffs and terminations coming up in the next couple of years and they colluded with the gubmint to mandate the vaxx knowing that half the people would not take it and the employees could then be blamed for losing their jobs cuz they refused the jab.
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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.
 Quoting: Domari Nolo


Yep. There's enough rigs to move product. There's hardly any product to move, though. This 'blame the truckers', 'blame the lazy people who won't work' bs is just that. BS. It is true, though, that millions are being maimed and killed from the vax, though - rendering huge swaths of the population unable and unfit to work at all! They're taking it all down. All the rest is just redirect.
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jay
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So which States are still paying unemployment? That dog dont hunt!
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10/11/2021 08:58 PM
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Only way to get rid of the woke and their sympathizers is through shortages.
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10/11/2021 09:08 PM
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No worries.

Biden will just get the military to drive the trucks.

And fly the planes, work as cashiers, flip burgers, perform surgeries, etc.. etc.

Oh wait, military members are quitting, too?

Lmao.

I can't wait to see him, KamelHo, and Raggedy Psaki figure this one out.

Imagine the sundowner moment, uncontrollable cackling and lizard licking this will produce in the 3 stooges.

Haha.
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10/11/2021 09:10 PM

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I applied at amazon for driver but i didn't pass the drug test,

I only use CBD for nutritional purposes,

which is not psychoactive,

laws in the u.s. are feeble
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10/11/2021 09:28 PM
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Building Back Better sounds like a success...
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10/11/2021 09:31 PM
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This has all been planned. I used to drive for Knight Transportation out of Phoenix, AZ and I recently tried to get a job with them again. They passed on my application for reasons unspecified to me. I have a clean CDL, no accidents or tickets and I have experience, with them in the past.

This whole situation is an orchestrated collapse of the pillars that make a first world country.

1. Healthcare
2. Law enforcement
3. Supply chain
4. Military
5. Finance

And you know what, I don't give a shit.
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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.
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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.
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You can make 40 cents per mile driving a big rig over the road.
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10/11/2021 09:43 PM
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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.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79671271


Why would you bankrupt your company to make sure chinese junk got on the shelf?
Don Draper from Nantucket  (OP)

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Re: Shipping Companies Struggle to Find Truck Drivers to Ease Port Backlogs...NEW NORMAL BITCHEZZZ
This has all been planned. I used to drive for Knight Transportation out of Phoenix, AZ and I recently tried to get a job with them again. They passed on my application for reasons unspecified to me. I have a clean CDL, no accidents or tickets and I have experience, with them in the past.

This whole situation is an orchestrated collapse of the pillars that make a first world country.

1. Healthcare
2. Law enforcement
3. Supply chain
4. Military
5. Finance

And you know what, I don't give a shit.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79764755


Absolutely agree!
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10/11/2021 09:49 PM
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Think they’re stocking the D.U.M.B.’s?
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10/11/2021 09:53 PM

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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.
 Quoting: N3M3S1S F$CKIT


Wow I did not know that, but last I read there were 70 off the the coast of Long Beach Ca.
 Quoting: Don Draper from Nantucket


I shop at Harbor Freight alot for stuff i need at home.

A month ago I talked to their local manager, who blamed their own shortages there on the lack of help in the CA ports.

Today the cashier blamed it on the low pay of the trucking industry..

Truck drivers ... dock workers ... or a general conspiracy by someone else ....
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I applied at amazon for driver but i didn't pass the drug test,

I only use CBD for nutritional purposes,

which is not psychoactive,

laws in the u.s. are feeble
 Quoting: No holds barred


That's Insane - good grief!
ruser
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10/11/2021 10:11 PM

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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.
 Quoting: N3M3S1S F$CKIT


Wow I did not know that, but last I read there were 70 off the the coast of Long Beach Ca.
 Quoting: Don Draper from Nantucket


I shop at Harbor Freight alot for stuff i need at home.

A month ago I talked to their local manager, who blamed their own shortages there on the lack of help in the CA ports.

Today the cashier blamed it on the low pay of the trucking industry..

Truck drivers ... dock workers ... or a general conspiracy by someone else ....
 Quoting: Grey Eagle


Yeah it seems everyone on the local level has an opinion, but no real facts going around...just the way they like it. Keep people guessing.
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10/11/2021 10:19 PM
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Seems like this was set up around 2016 when they changed the rules for DOT medical cards, a lot of drivers lost their CDL because they didn't receive notification of the change.

Voila, medically ineligible. One option, re-test. Not really easy to get your hands on the rig for the road test. The written test is nothing.
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10/11/2021 10:51 PM
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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.
 Quoting: A Jackson


Yeah AND a hair test. Before I went to CDL school, I worked as a temp dispatcher and then at amazon for 4 months to let clean hair grow out. It takes a lot of will power. That was right when COVID first hit. I've been driving ever since. Now I'm local, home on the weekends and clearing $1500/wk. Driving is brutal though.
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I applied at amazon for driver but i didn't pass the drug test,

I only use CBD for nutritional purposes,

which is not psychoactive,

laws in the u.s. are feeble
 Quoting: No holds barred



Same here. After 32 years Im out cause of delta 8 modified thc available at truckstops. Which is psychoactive but legal. The DOT "clearinghouse"... What a shame...
"The medium is the message"-Marshall McLuhan
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This has all been planned. I used to drive for Knight Transportation out of Phoenix, AZ and I recently tried to get a job with them again. They passed on my application for reasons unspecified to me. I have a clean CDL, no accidents or tickets and I have experience, with them in the past.

This whole situation is an orchestrated collapse of the pillars that make a first world country.

1. Healthcare
2. Law enforcement
3. Supply chain
4. Military
5. Finance

And you know what, I don't give a shit.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79764755


Crazy! I used to work for Knight out of the Indy terminal and the safety coordinator calls me out of the blue from time to time to see if I want to come back, LOL. I guess its because I stayed out OTR and only came home like 4 times in a year. Good miles, 3600 would be a slow week.
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10/11/2021 11:07 PM
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Those trucker schools, they scare people out of the industry. They give you 4 EFFING DAYS to become proficient in driving a big rig or they keep your money and tell you to go eff off and it's not for you. NO JOKE.
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10/11/2021 11:11 PM
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Water buffaloes... lol


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Maybe if they started treating truck drivers better, they would have enough drivers. They treat them lie s*** and pay them slave wages.
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10/11/2021 11:18 PM
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I'm seeing tons of trucks, I travel interstate every day and in 10 miles I counted 101 semi trucks, I call bullshit on shortage of truckers
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 9020050


BINGO!

The entire situation is a manufactured event. Whether hard products or food stuffs....all concocted by the elites!

EM-
BAR-
GO-

It's an economic act of war that the us gov't is using against We The People!
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10/11/2021 11:23 PM
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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.
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same
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It’s almost like we fucked with the world
Too long

And now it’s fucking us.
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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.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79671271


When I drove for a company back in 2003. My hours of service and pay cheques came out to about 8 bucks an hour for 60 hr weeks. It was a brutal life on the road. Not worth it.
That was .28 cents CDN a mile.
When I switched to a .38 cents a mile CDN company my wage only went to 10 bucks an hour.
It seemed the .28 cents a mile company paid actual miles, the .38 cents a mile company constantly cheated me out of miles every cheque so it was more like .33 cents a mile.
Either way, the job should have been 20 bucks an hour and not my fault if they got no load for me to haul..
Many hours were wasted at border crossings and loading docks. There is nothing worse than working for free.

Since then they have changed hours of service and made things even harder to make money under stricter rules. Not to mention, the state troopers in the u.s were a bunch of fkn nazi's back even then constantly just trying to nickel and dime tickets out of you.

They'd have to pay 100k/year for me to ever want to go back into that job and no forced vax or bull shit.

Last Edited by AlphaWolf on 10/12/2021 12:24 AM
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I applied at amazon for driver but i didn't pass the drug test,

I only use CBD for nutritional purposes,

which is not psychoactive,

laws in the u.s. are feeble
 Quoting: No holds barred


That's strange I have seen CBD given the green light for law enforcement but you can't drive a truck?





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