To meet its zero-emissions goals, Los Angeles and Long Beach ports will start charging fossil fuel trucks an extra fee on April 1 to pick up or drop off shipping containers.
Why is this even surprising? Another example of business cluelessness from a state that can't even write legislation to sell weed for profit. (sigh) Not much better than our fedgov and their endless virtue-signaling sanctions against the bad guy of the month. (pouring out paid-off vodka, anyone?) None of this bunch grasps second and third order effects of their actions.
Bro: there are no more "Independent" haulers going in and out of L.A. and Long Beach... All the truck traffic has to be union, which rules out small carriers and independents. Plus a lot of out-of-state trucks can't even come into Kaliforniastan 'cause of the stupid emissions regs.
OR, The truckers will continue to pass the cost along. This will continue until the demand for things that arrive on boats is eliminated. It will be eliminated in one of several ways, a few of which are highly unpleasant. -Just A Chemist
And the American Trucking Association is all butt hurt about it. Screw 'em.
They were all for California's new emission standards 10 years ago, knowing they would kill off struggling owner-operators who couldn't afford new trucks, while their big money big fleet members replaced their trucks every three years anyway, after putting 600,000 miles on them.
ATA is the Deep State. They care not for the little guy. The hell with them.
Call BS any time the big guys complain. That conspiracy has been around since the Gilded Age, when big companies knew the only way to get rid of small ones was to have government institute laws on "fairness" and "health and safety." Little guys couldn't afford the regs and went out of business.
Why is this even surprising? Another example of business cluelessness from a state that can't even write legislation to sell weed for profit.
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Not much better than our fedgov and their endless virtue-signaling sanctions against the bad guy of the month. (pouring out paid-off vodka, anyone?)
None of this bunch grasps second and third order effects of their actions.
The have those immigrant truck drivers by the balls, and will keep squeezing until even they say "He'll no"
ReplyDeleteThose dumb f**ks just created a black market and don't even know it yet.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's a bit late to ask, but "How does paying LA and Long Beach more money eliminate emissions?"
ReplyDelete"I wonder what they're going to do when all those companies and independents that haul freight to and from the ports decide 'Naw, fuck that'?"
ReplyDeleteMy money says they are counting on that happening. Another "supply chain issue" and another sabotage of the infrastructure by the criminals in charge.
Ed
Starve, motherfuckers!
ReplyDeleteThey already restrict the independents, so the big companies will just pass it along to us, the consumers.
ReplyDeleteBro: there are no more "Independent" haulers going in and out of L.A. and Long Beach... All the truck traffic has to be union, which rules out small carriers and independents. Plus a lot of out-of-state trucks can't even come into Kaliforniastan 'cause of the stupid emissions regs.
ReplyDeleteNothing to see here; everything's fine.
OR,
ReplyDeleteThe truckers will continue to pass the cost along. This will continue until the demand for things that arrive on boats is eliminated. It will be eliminated in one of several ways, a few of which are highly unpleasant.
-Just A Chemist
And the American Trucking Association is all butt hurt about it. Screw 'em.
ReplyDeleteThey were all for California's new emission standards 10 years ago, knowing they would kill off struggling owner-operators who couldn't afford new trucks, while their big money big fleet members replaced their trucks every three years anyway, after putting 600,000 miles on them.
ATA is the Deep State. They care not for the little guy. The hell with them.
Just added to the price of whatever products are in the containers. Once again, the whole country gets to pay for california's bullshit.
ReplyDeleteCall BS any time the big guys complain. That conspiracy has been around since the Gilded Age, when big companies knew the only way to get rid of small ones was to have government institute laws on "fairness" and "health and safety." Little guys couldn't afford the regs and went out of business.
ReplyDeleteShip to Tacoma? Mexico? Through the canal and to Texas, or the east coast?
ReplyDeleteOr, Lord Willing, onshore our production of, well, everything?