Looks Like The Whole Shipping Container Logjam Was About Getting That Infrastructure Bill
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I work in Supply Chain, the reality here is that the logjam was artificial, but it wasn't to pass some bill. Every container I sent to a port, I was told it would be 24-36 hours because they were working people in shifts to keep them isolated from each other.
But isn’t port work already a pretty isolated job to begin with. Dudes aren’t sitting ten deep in a crane, it’s usually just one guy up there by himself. Same with the trucks. What I’ve witnessed at Long Beach is workers 20-30 yards apart from each other. They aren’t packed in like a fans in the stands at a Chicago Bears football game in the middle of December.
Not only that, from what I’ve seen it’s quite the opposite - it’s practically automated, not like it was back in the 1980s when it was a bustling city of ants crawling everywhere. Today every person isolated in a cab of a truck or crane. They aren’t standing shoulder to shoulder offloading sacks of sugar - handing each bag slowly down a gangplank off of a cargo ship. It’s one guy plucking containers off the ship and stacking them on the dock. Another guy in a fork lift placing them on the back of a semi truck.
Not being a jerk, but I don’t understand the need to isolate?
You're mostly correct, but they all meet together and eat together and I think that's where they call for "isolation."
Ahhh, lol. I wouldn’t put it past the unions to enforce this BS too. They do answer to the DNC after all. I do believe the “shortages” on import vehicles and goods is entirely man made. I’d like to see heads rolling because of it.
Unions were the ones calling for it and threatening strikes.