I had a question before as to why a regular Joe couldn't grab a decent pickup truck and start grabbing shipments in smaller quantities. That answers my question succinctly.
New question: if we start throwing Chinese shipments into the ocean, would that help make room for the shipments we actually want?
Yeah, a truck and trailer. I was thinking something along the lines of shortening the distance the semis needed to travel, flip to pickups, then continue. But the CA laws wouldn't let that fly either.
Or, maybe we can dedicate some different storage areas for storing the Chinese containers. That way we can make sure those fees stack up. We'll get to them eventually...
I had a question before as to why a regular Joe couldn't grab a decent pickup truck and start grabbing shipments in smaller quantities. That answers my question succinctly.
New question: if we start throwing Chinese shipments into the ocean, would that help make room for the shipments we actually want?
That's not possible because the semi trucks just take the whole container on a special trailer. A pickup would need to open and unpack them.
There are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of containers stuck at those ports. Each one needs a truck.
Truck are not the problem, it's the chassis that carry the containers. There's a massive shortage of them, More containers than chassis to carry them.
It's been that way forever, it's how it works.
Yeah, a truck and trailer. I was thinking something along the lines of shortening the distance the semis needed to travel, flip to pickups, then continue. But the CA laws wouldn't let that fly either.
Or, maybe we can dedicate some different storage areas for storing the Chinese containers. That way we can make sure those fees stack up. We'll get to them eventually...