Breakdowns/Shortages

[Billsandhorns]

1 hour ago, devnull said:

 

The supply chain problems are like the vaccine mandates.

 

Manufacture a crisis that would otherwise resolve itself

Wait for it to eventually fix itself

Take credit

This one isn't going to end quickly from what I am reading. They don't have space for empty containers. Truck lots are limited to how many empties that they can stack/store, so the trailers used for the containers are becoming defacto storage. Can't pick up a full container with an empty container on the trailer. The ports are also full so they are not taking empties

[Ann]

Looks like calling attention to something ….

 

 

[Billsandhorns]

3 minutes ago, Ann said:

Looks like calling attention to something ….

 

 

They couldn't do that shit sooner? Should also waive the truck age limit too

[Uncle Joe]

10 hours ago, Billsandhorns said:

They couldn't do that shit sooner? Should also waive the truck age limit too

And be like Oregon? No way Jose.
They surely don't want to pollute around all those BIPOCs in urban areas for starters.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

We're running out of blue.

 

Can't wait for Democrats to call this sedition, for limiting their ability to make campaign signs for mid-terms.

[Billsandhorns]

2 hours ago, Uncle Joe said:

And be like Oregon? No way Jose.
They surely don't want to pollute around all those BIPOCs in urban areas for starters.

Yeah, what was I thinking. Fumes from trucks is faaar more damaging than not being able to get/afford necessaties

[Spartacus]

only in govt, do high ranking executives even think of taking extended time off with absolutely no coverage while gone

 

Unanswered questions remain for Buttigieg, Biden on supply chain catastrophe (msn.com)

 

 

And many businesses, particularly small businesses - for which the holiday season can make or break a fiscal year - will be devastated by the inability to sell items because they're simply not being delivered.

 

Secretary Buttigieg should answer three simple questions: How many ports have you visited? How many port operators and trucking executives have you met with in person? Who served as acting director during your extended paternity leave?

 

The answers to the first two questions are: None and none. Buttigieg has held some virtual meetings with port operators and trucking executives. But what tangible steps - now that ports will remain open 24/7, per President Biden's recent order - are being taken to hire more port workers and truckers, when a severe shortage exists?

Edited October 24, 2021 by Spartacus

[Spartacus]

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/martin-armstrong-are-us-supply-chain-disruptions-deliberate

 

Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo may have accidentally leaked the cause of America’s supply chain issues. 

“The reality is the only way we’re going to get to a place where we work through this transition is if everyone in America and everyone around the world gets vaccinated,” Adeyemo admitted in an interview with ABC News.

 

Basically, everyone should give into the vaccine mandate or face the consequences. They are masking authoritarianism as utilitarianism. The vaccine has not been mandated at the federal level in the US, yet, but it is apparent that the government plans to make life as difficult as possible for those who do not obey.

Echoing the Fed, Adeyemo said that inflation is “transitory,” and “as part of the transition we are seeing higher pieces for some of the things people have to buy

[Spartacus]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ive-been-driving-trucks-20-years-ill-tell-you-why-americas-shipping-crisis-will-not-end

I have a simple question for every ‘expert’ who thinks they understand the root causes of the shipping crisis:

Why is there only one crane for every 50–100 trucks at every port in America?

No ‘expert’ will answer this question.

 

From personal experience, what used to take me 20–30 minutes to pick up at a warehouse can now take three to four hours. This slowdown is warehouse management related: very few warehouses are open 24 hours, and even if they are, many are so short staffed it doesn’t make much difference, they are so far behind schedule. It means that as a freight driver, I cannot pick up as much freight in a day as I used to, and since I can’t get as much freight on my truck, the whole supply chain is backed up. Freight simply isn’t moving.

 

The ‘experts’ want to say we can do things like open the ports 24/7, and this problem will be over in a couple weeks. They are blowing smoke, and they know it. Getting a container out of the port, as slow and aggravating as it is, is really the easy part, if you can find a truck and chassis to haul it. But every truck driver in America can’t operate 24/7, even if the government suspends Hours Of Service Regulations (federal regulations determining how many hours a week we can work/drive), we still need to sleep sometime. There are also restrictions on which trucks can go into a port. They have to be approved, have RFID tags, port registered, and the drivers have to have at least a TWIC card (Transportation Worker Identification Credential from the federal Transportation Security Administration). Some ports have additional requirements. As I have already said, most trucking companies won’t touch shipping containers with a 100 foot pole. What we have is a system with a limited amount of trucks and qualified drivers, many of whom are already working 14 hours a day (legally, the maximum they can), and now the supposed fix is to have them work 24 hours a day, every day, and not stop until the backlog is cleared. It’s not going to happen. It is not physically possible. There is no “cavalry” coming. No trucking companies are going to pay to register their trucks to haul containers for something that is supposedly so “short term,” because these same companies can get higher rate loads outside the ports. There is no extra capacity to be had, and it makes NO difference anyway, because If you can’t get a container unloaded at a warehouse, having drivers work 24/7/365 solves nothing.

 

What it will truly take to fix this problem is to run EVERYTHING 24/7: ports (both coastal and domestic), trucks, and warehouses. We need tens of thousands more chassis, and a much greater capacity in trucking.

[Spartacus]

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/lack-drivers-hamstringing-supply-chain-recovery

 

“We’ve lost, at least temporarily, 44,000 drivers so far in 2021 to drug or alcohol violations, which really stings when freight is sitting at the dock waiting to be picked up,” P. Sean Garney, the Scopelitis Transportation Consulting co-director, told FreightWaves. 

 

“With only 21% of drivers disqualified from driving a [commercial motor vehicle] taking the steps necessary to get back behind the wheel, the industry needs to continue to find creative ways to fill seats.”

 

 

 

The Charleston, South Carolina-based carrier has been advertising every week for driving positions that pay $100,000 per year — and the jobs allow drivers to be home every night and on weekends, with full benefits. “Recruiting and retention is as difficult as I’ve ever seen it, and I’ve been in this business for over 40 years,” Byrd told FreightWaves. He pointed to the clearinghouse as a major factor.

 

 

[devnull]

Maybe the Democrats will start to understand the supply chain is a problem after they ran low on fraudulent ballots in Virginia

[Spartacus]

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/heres-why-us-supply-chain-problems-will-only-get-worse

 

It is an economic rule which free market philosophers like Adam Smith have tried to explain to governments and monopolists for centuries:

Less liberty and more centralization equals less production and less overall wealth.

Governments and central banks have sought to circumvent this rule by printing money from thin air, thinking that they can create wealth while at the same time suffocating public financial interactions and trade with authoritarianism. This, of course, only leads to inflation or stagflation, and thus wealth is never actually created, it is projected like a hologram in order to trick the masses into thinking that all is well – until everything breaks, that is.

[Spartacus]

Biden administration considering shutting down another pipeline (msn.com)

 

'Furthermore, as we enter the winter months and temperatures drop across the Midwest, the termination of Line 5 will undoubtedly further exacerbate shortages and price increases in home heating fuels like natural gas and propane at a time when Americans are already facing rapidly rising energy prices, steep home heating costs, global supply shortages, and skyrocketing gas prices.' 

 

However, Energy Secretary and former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm argues that fuel prices are going to skyrocket this winter anyway.

 

'Yeah, this is going to happen,' Granholm told CNN on Sunday. 'It will be more expensive this year than last year.' 

 

'We are in a slightly beneficial position, well certainly relative to Europe, because their choke hold of natural gas is very significant. But we have the same problem in fuels that the supply chains have, which is that the oil and gas companies are not flipping the switch as quickly as the demand requires.' 

 

According to the lawmakers, the administration's move to terminate Line 5's operation is part of a move to 'appease environmental groups'. 

 

Their claims are echoed by Jason Hayes, director of environmental policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, who alleges that Biden's energy policies and work on Line 5 is 'just one more example of being divorced from reality.'

 

'They're planning to power an industrial nation like the United States on solar panels and wind turbines,' Hayes told Fox News.

 

 

[Hedge]

Stop killing and throwing away those bugs you find in your home. Pickle them!

 

 

 

[devnull]

I just read that Beyond Meat (BYND) stock price dropped 17% today

 

People going back to real meat because even Virtue Signaling is getting expensive under Bidenflation

[Spartacus]

1 hour ago, devnull said:

I just read that Beyond Meat (BYND) stock price dropped 17% today

 

People going back to real meat because even Virtue Signaling is getting expensive under Bidenflation

some station probably started playing Soylent Green, as its set in 2022

 

https://www.imdb.com › title › tt0070723 › plotsummary

• The is the year 2022. Overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society's leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green-an artificial nourishment whose actual ingredients are not known by the public. Thorn (Charlton Heston) is the tough homicide detective who stumbles onto the secret so terrifying no one would dare believe him.

[Spartacus]

Biden plan to clear the US port backlog huge success!

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/record-111-container-ships-anchored-southern-california-congestion-crisis-worsens

 

A Record 111 Container Ships Anchored Off Southern California As Congestion Crisis Worsens 

The ugly truth is that congestion at the twin ports, responsible for 40% of all shipping containers entering the U.S., cannot be solved overnight with Biden's 24/7 port directive. It's beginning to look like the directive was nothing more than a political ploy to push the infrastructure bill.

 

 

 

[Keukasmallie]

On 11/11/2021 at 5:07 PM, Spartacus said:

Biden plan to clear the US port backlog huge success!

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/record-111-container-ships-anchored-southern-california-congestion-crisis-worsens

 

A Record 111 Container Ships Anchored Off Southern California As Congestion Crisis Worsens 

The ugly truth is that congestion at the twin ports, responsible for 40% of all shipping containers entering the U.S., cannot be solved overnight with Biden's 24/7 port directive. It's beginning to look like the directive was nothing more than a political ploy to push the infrastructure bill.

 

 

 

 

Everything that comes from the current administration in DC is a "...political ploy..." in support of whatever the former vice president [read his handlers] deems "crucial to the American people."

[Spartacus]

when facts don't fit the narrative, change the definitions!

where have we seen that before?

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/so-much-fixing-supply-chains-record-96-containerships-are-waiting-dock-socal-ports

The Marine Exchange has just unveiled its new methodology for counting container ships waiting outside the 40-mile “in port” zone. A new queuing system has been in place since mid-November that encourages container ships to wait outside of a specially designated Safety and Air Quality Area (SAQA) that extends 150 miles to the west of the ports and 50 miles to the north and south.

 

This has sharply reduced the number of ships closer to shore, leading to suggestions that efforts to tackle port congestion are cutting into the offshore queue — a misconception that should be dispelled by the Marine Exchange’s new counting method.

 

[Foxx]

Probably not the breakdown you were envisioning...

 

Families distraught: Baltimore parking garage turned into morgue as 200 bodies await autopsy

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... The backlog snowballed from 50 bodies awaiting autopsy in late December to 150 bodies in late January. State officials estimate the number will exceed 300 bodies this month. They blame office turnover and the coronavirus pandemic that’s kept employees sick at home. Staff shortages come amid increasing numbers of murders and drug overdoses, cases that require autopsies.

 

With space running out, officials turned to a makeshift field morgue in the parking garage of the old Social Security Administration building downtown. Tarps hang from the ceiling to hide their work from view.

 

“They’re storing bodies in a cooler in a parking garage. It’s a mess,” said Patrick Moran, president of the local chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, whose members include autopsy assistants, lab techs and forensic investigators with the office. ...