MOAR! HARDER!

 

It is obvious that "Fucktards gonna fucktard". But some people are abusing the privilege.

FFS, just stop, man.

Somebody, please, get Sumdunce some Depends, and tackle him before he gets to the keyboard again, and fills up both pantlegs to overflowing, including his shoes and socks.

A few wee points: 

1) There are not "hundreds" of container ships off Long Beach/L.A. The number of ships is under one hundred. Closer to half that, in fact, which is down by nearly 20% since a month ago. So it's getting better, not "worse". You could look it up. Re: the actual backlog: Dozens? Sure. "Hundreds?" Take off your shoes and learn to count, meathead.

2) Per comments over at Bayou Renaissance Man's blog in response to the original recockulous article, the actual statute permits all trucks made since 2010, not those "only in the last 3 years", to pick up cargo at the ports. Semi trucks made since 2010? By SWAG, that would be about 90+% of them, nationwide.

3) From a brilliant comment to my earlier post, the capacity to unload ships is normally about 12,500 40' containers (25,000 TEUs) per day in the ports of LA/LB. By going to three shifts, they could up that to somewhere near double that amount. If nothing breaks. If they have three times the manpower. Overnight. But there are apparently something like 500,000 containers to unload.

That's a 20-day backlog.

During which time, an additional 20 days' worth of new container ships already en route will show up, and line up for their turn. And this is the busy shipping season.

So this isn't going away by waving anyone's magic wand.

4) There are also queues of container ships outside Savannah GA as well. Last I looked, Georgia has no such emission mandates on drayage vehicles as Califrutopia does. So obviously, claiming that farcical explanation as "the root cause" of the backlog is, as previously noted, patent bullsh*t. Clever folks would have called that info tidbit a "clue".

5) Orders to China, hence goods coming here from there, are up over 25% compared to last year pre-pandemic. In no small part due to people not having jobs most of last year, nor the ability to buy a lot of things, until things started easing off this year. But even pre-pandemic, the capacity to handle cargo increases was only about 5%. There is simply no elasticity built into the entire jackassical "just-in-time" system. This is that, all that, and only that.

6) The shortage is truck drivers, not trucks. Anyone who hasn't heard about new federal regs making it hard to impossible to make a decent living for truck owner-operators nationwide hasn't been listening, and has their head securely up their own @$$. And any of those drivers close enough to retirement has long since sold their rig, and said "Let's go, Brandon!" to the whole trucking industry.

7) 500,000 containers, a 20-day supply if the ports unload 24/7, means we'd need 25% of the entire 2M truck US semi-truck industry to come to Califrutopia in a conga line to get it all. Sh'yeah, right; when monkeys fly outta my butt. Even if we whittle it down to only 25K/day, which is what the port might be able to unload now with 24/7 operations, at 70' long from front bumper to rear of the 53' trailer, that's a conga line of trucks 330+ miles long, reaching from L.A./Long Beach Harbor nearly all the way to Phoenix AZ, Kingman AZ, or St. George UT, bumper-to-bumper, with 0 inches in between each rig. Under normal conditions, the three main roads heading east from SoCal (I-10, I-15, and I-40) would be jam-packed in their entirety for hundreds of miles. And at 55MPH, it would take them a full 12 hr. trucking day to make one such round trip, apiece, and they'd have to keep it up every day, no holidays or weekends off, from now until the end of the first week in November, just to clear the backlog waiting offshore right now.

This has fuck-all to do with "green compliant" trucks, or any imaginary lack thereof, regardless of how recockulously stupid and asinine any of Sacramento's fairytale green mandates are. And make no mistake, they are exactly that. But continuing to pimp the demonstrably false narrative that those laws are "the root of the problem" is more asinine than the laws themselves are. It bespeaks someone both too ignorant to change their mind, and too obstinate to change the topic.

But the problem which really is causing this, is that we don't have enough trucks, nor any other logistical capacity, at any point in the entire supply chain, to move that kind of backlog, ever, period.

Hiring more dockworkers or crane operators won't make cargo unload any faster than hiring more mechanics and drivers makes cars go faster at the Indy 500. A 500 mile race at 200MPH takes 2½ hours, because of physics timespace. Period. Just like there are only so many berths, and so many cranes, and only so many containers that can be plucked off ships per hour. If you want to lay out a plan to terraform the harbor to increase throughput capacity, the time to do that was 20 years ago. 

Kind of like Califrutopia's power grid, highways, and water supplies. Three terms in total of Jerry Brown as governor here was the functional equivalent of 7 major earthquakes, 10 riots, and 200 brushfires inside the city limits, in terms of damage to the state. We'll be paying for that serial disaster even decades after I'm cold and dead.

Even putting the cargo on trains presents the exact same logistical burden.

That's 60 complete fully-loaded double-stacked freight trains/day headed out of Los Angeles, in perpetuity, each one 100 freight cars long, stretching over a mile long, each.

Our leaned-to-fumes logistics system is not designed, nor capable, of going from "Park" to 125MPH overnight, and staying there indefinitely.

That's why there's a backlog of unloaded containers in the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Savannah, and will continue to be for some weeks to months.

So certain jackasses should stop trying to pin this on a truck mandate with negligible, if any, effect on the entire system, or the problem, no matter how silly and butthurt they're liable to be for admitting they biffed this, repeatedly.

The very idea is simply full of more shit than a Christmas goose.

Anyone who doubles down on something that's clearly beyond their ken is just an object lesson in why one should not wear white pants to a dinner party where chili is being served, whether we're talking about problems of spillage in the front, or leakage in the rear.

They should leave the party, change their trousers, put the keyboard down, and they need to crack a friggin' book.