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Drivers and dock workers are just making it easier to replace them with automation.
So instead of having drivers in trucks waiting for hours to be loaded and unproductive, we will have automated trucks sitting around for hours being unproductive.
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I agree, and I think it's largely a problem that was touched on in this article. Declining union membership is the issue. We saw a lot of prosperity in the country with higher union membership. Once that control goes back to owners, and away from unions/etc., we see more and more problems come up. If more people in all parts of the supply chain were unionized, there'd be a structure to push for more than just maximizing profitability (which is NOT the same thing as maximizing the supply chain).
Sure do wish I could find that chart that shows how unions have increased productivity. I looked for hours and still can't find it. I'll get back to you when I do.
"My prediction is that nothing is going to change and the shipping crisis is only going to get worse. Nobody in the supply chain wants to pay to solve the problem. They literally just won’t pay to solve the problem. At the point we are at now, things are so backed up that the backups THEMSELVES are causing container companies, ports, warehouses, and trucking companies to charge massive rate increases for doing literally NOTHING.
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OK, look. England has major gasoline delivery crisis because they lack 300 drivers to deliver it to stations. 300!!! And after multiple parliament sessions, they can't solve that puzzle and Johnson left for vacation in Spain. Maybe there he will have some insight.
But here's the kicker. This is how such things were ALWAYS resolved before:
YOU TAKE 300 MILITARY DRIVERS AND LET THEM RUN DEM TRUCKS.
Same is more than applicable here. You don't have drivers - you send guardsmen.
Even better, as I said before. Give people 10% of what's in them containers and it will all be unloaded and delivered in 3 days.
Different story is, someone, who has control over the key logistics points, pulled the plug and their goons in governments suddenly got pea brains and can't solve basic issue.
Real question is - who has such power. That should be resolved. Then, strip them naked, cover in tar, roll in feathers, and run through the cities, giving ten whips on every intersection.
I agree, and I think it's largely a problem that was touched on in this article. Declining union membership is the issue. We saw a lot of prosperity in the country with higher union membership. Once that control goes back to owners, and away from unions/etc., we see more and more problems come up. If more people in all parts of the supply chain were unionized, there'd be a structure to push for more than just maximizing profitability (which is NOT the same thing as maximizing the supply chain).
Nothing busts a union like off-shoring and importing lots of illegal labor. #bipartisanship
Sholomar, as a truck driver, have you been driving nonstop these past couple of months? That is, if you have not retired from driving. What's going on with the trucks' chassis shortage?
I blame "Just in time' deliveries. They ain't in time for anything anymore. Not the truckers fault which is due to the pandemic.
Please stop blaming the problems that governments caused on the pandemic.
For starters, governments created the damn virus in the first place.
Then they let it escape containment.
Then they destroyed the economy and created the supply chain issues with shutdowns and other restrictions.
Then they facilitated the largest transfer of wealth in history, moving an estimated trillion dollars from the lower & middle class to the 1% by forcing everyone to do most of their shopping through Amazon, Walmart, Target, etc., obliterating small businesses across the country.
Then they LIED to you about creating the virus and tried to cover it up.
Just stop defending them. They don't deserve it. They caused ALL of this, and NOTHING they're doing is making ANY of those problems better. Whether intentional and malicious or just sheer incompetence, these people don't deserve your defense of them. They deserve your anger.
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