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<blockquote data-quote="Gimlet" data-source="post: 1532518" data-attributes="member: 4104">Thanks, it works. The article is total crap designed to make you focus on 1 issue easily deboinked. I can't take the time to go through it point by point, but the reveal it is utter BS came early. But experts say trucking regulations aren't to blame for the cargo backlog.&quot;To attribute the problems of today to this mandate is not accurate,&quot; <a href="https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/jaller/" target="_blank">Miguel Jaller Martelo</a>, co-director of the Sustainable Freight Research Program at the University of California-Davis, said in an email. &quot;I would concentrate more on low wages, and new shipping trends that resulted from shifts in demand and consumption patterns during COVID.&quot;So the expert they are relying on, is an academic whose very job/source of funding is to destroy and remake the existing transportation system. No remake of the system, no money, no career. They chose this academic instead of the CEO of any number of real world trucking companies who have lived and breathed this for decades intentionally. Does this look like the place to go to figure out how to get things moving right now? Or the place to go to help enable a controlled demolition of the system?[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://sfreight.ucdavis.edu/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gimlet, post: 1532518, member: 4104"] Thanks, it works. The article is total crap designed to make you focus on 1 issue easily deboinked. I can't take the time to go through it point by point, but the reveal it is utter BS came early. [I]But experts say trucking regulations aren't to blame for the cargo backlog. "To attribute the problems of today to this mandate is not accurate," [URL='https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/jaller/']Miguel Jaller Martelo[/URL], [B]co-director of the Sustainable Freight Research Program at the University of California-Davis[/B], said in an email. "I would concentrate more on low wages, and new shipping trends that resulted from shifts in demand and consumption patterns during COVID."[/I] So the expert they are relying on, is an academic whose very job/source of funding is to destroy and remake the existing transportation system. No remake of the system, no money, no career. They chose this academic instead of the CEO of any number of real world trucking companies who have lived and breathed this for decades intentionally. Does this look like the place to go to figure out how to get things moving right now? Or the place to go to help enable a controlled demolition of the system? [URL unfurl="true"]https://sfreight.ucdavis.edu/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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