Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that America is going through a massive, worsening supply chain crisis under the current administration.
In my recent article, I focused on President Biden reversing all of President Trump’s pro-production policies, which is true, and that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has been blissfully and selfishly on leave while American’s aren’t able to retrieve goods they need, also true.
Now, I am writing this post because, on top of all THAT, I have now discovered that the LEFT and their disastrous policies have been ultimately waging war on truckers for a long, long time.
The other day, I found out that 40% of the United States supply chain comes into the port of Los Angeles (POLA) and Long Beach (POLB). This means that the policies fall on the state of California.
Every semi-truck has to be current with the CA Emissions Standards. To summarize, California Leftists declared that truckers have to get a new truck every 3 years (cost ranges from $100,000-$300,000) in their attempt to save the weather, and thus they have cut down HALF the truckers in California. So 50% of truckers in California are in charge of 40% of the supply chain in America.
Insanity.
The issue is not that those two ports are open all day and night; it is the transportation of the ports, aka the trucks. The containers of goods are piling up right now because of the massive loss of truckers in response to the Left’s policies.
I posted this to Twitter and there were a ton of replies, including some from truckers confirming the mess. Here are a few:
I then posted it on my Instagram story and I got a flood of messages from truckers across the nation and from family members of truckers, confirming how hard it is to be a trucker in general (not just the ones who go in and out of California), or have a trucking business while up against the Leftist’s regulations. Here are a few of the ones I received:
So why has the Left waged war on American truckers across the nation if they are VITAL to the health of our supply chain? Why does the Left want it to be so difficult to be a trucker? The men and women who drive trucks full of goods are ESSENTIAL to America. There should be ZERO regulations on their backs deterring them from doing their job.
The only reason for this is that it is intentional and contributes to the Leftist dream of a socialist America.
