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<blockquote data-quote="SpyofMoses" data-source="post: 1532495" data-attributes="member: 18267"><a href="http://Fact check: California cargo backlog not due to trucking ...https://www.usatoday.com › factcheck › 2021/10/18 › f..." target="_blank">Fact check: California cargo backlog not due to trucking ...https://www.usatoday.com › factcheck › 2021/10/18 › f...</a>What I can't help but wonder when I read this article is how many truckers left just before August. Even if their engine is an '07 or newer, the writing is on the wall for them. Why not just move to a different state with less regulations on Diesel trucks? I'm not close enough to the ins and outs of the Cali shipping industry to know the answer. But I do figure that many truckers may have left shortly enough before August that the back log had already started and reached a head by September. It seems everyone I talk to about the supply chain situation is convinced that the labor shortage is driving most of these disruptions. They say everyone's still getting unemployment benefits, even if without that boost it had during 2020. I'm not sure how many people in the ports, docks, and warehouses across the country lost their job per COVID, but I know if they did they probably aren't in a hurry to take back a job that can just get cancelled again per the 'Rona- or whatever else.I personally am in the retail business. My colleagues and I just can't keep up with what has a limit on it today or the next. People are learning to just make do with what they can get and buy things they see on the shelf while it's still there whether they really are running low at home or not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SpyofMoses, post: 1532495, member: 18267"] [URL='http://Fact check: California cargo backlog not due to trucking ...https://www.usatoday.com › factcheck › 2021/10/18 › f...']Fact check: California cargo backlog not due to trucking ...https://www.usatoday.com › factcheck › 2021/10/18 › f...[/URL] What I can't help but wonder when I read this article is how many truckers left just before August. Even if their engine is an '07 or newer, the writing is on the wall for them. Why not just move to a different state with less regulations on Diesel trucks? I'm not close enough to the ins and outs of the Cali shipping industry to know the answer. But I do figure that many truckers may have left shortly enough before August that the back log had already started and reached a head by September. It seems everyone I talk to about the supply chain situation is convinced that the labor shortage is driving most of these disruptions. They say everyone's still getting unemployment benefits, even if without that boost it had during 2020. I'm not sure how many people in the ports, docks, and warehouses across the country lost their job per COVID, but I know if they did they probably aren't in a hurry to take back a job that can just get cancelled again per the 'Rona- or whatever else. I personally am in the retail business. My colleagues and I just can't keep up with what has a limit on it today or the next. People are learning to just make do with what they can get and buy things they see on the shelf while it's still there whether they really are running low at home or not. [/QUOTE]

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