And not gonna happen when we are in the midst of creating a whole younger generation of lazy check collectors and sending all the kids to college for useless degrees while sipping Starbucks and worrying about the lates phones and fashions. We got a long way to fall in order to start building ourselves back up
Too many comments like this in here.
Y'all totally & completely miss the point.
You can't just build a factory in a day, nor even a month.
You can't just wave a magic wand and magically start producing stuff like truck driveshafts, computer chips, etc. overnight, prob not even in a year.
The point is that we're going to start seeing massive shortages NOW, and it will take a very significant amount of time to address those, and that time in between is what will be brutal.
Also understand that everything - LITERALLY EVERYTHING is trucked at some point.
People don't understand how crucial trucking is.
This is a very significant post - and it's now proven true - and seems a lot in here aren't getting the true impact.
We used to make stuff. We'll make it again. Maybe we will actually have to do labor and hard work. Which will be good for us.
Not gonna happen if 2/3 of the population is sick/dying from vaccine mandates.
And not gonna happen when we are in the midst of creating a whole younger generation of lazy check collectors and sending all the kids to college for useless degrees while sipping Starbucks and worrying about the lates phones and fashions. We got a long way to fall in order to start building ourselves back up
Too many comments like this in here. Y'all totally & completely miss the point.
You can't just build a factory in a day, nor even a month.
You can't just wave a magic wand and magically start producing stuff like truck driveshafts, computer chips, etc. overnight, prob not even in a year.
The point is that we're going to start seeing massive shortages NOW, and it will take a very significant amount of time to address those, and that time in between is what will be brutal.
Also understand that everything - LITERALLY EVERYTHING is trucked at some point.
People don't understand how crucial trucking is.
This is a very significant post - and it's now proven true - and seems a lot in here aren't getting the true impact.
Proof this OP is true: https://cdllife.com/2021/kenworth-to-lay-off-at-least-350-workers-as-hundreds-of-semis-sit-idle/
ETA:
MORE PROOF OP IS ACCURATE. This article is actually from April.... Is the parts shortage STILL an issue??
https://www.trucknews.com/equipment/truck-parts-shortage-intensifies-extending-to-common-parts/1003150478/