Our Cathedral elites are slow to learn that the world doesn’t actually turn through the efforts of New York Times writers and software coders.
I have a simple question for every ‘expert’ who thinks they understand the root causes of the shipping crisis:
Why is there only one crane for every 50–100 trucks at every port in America?
No ‘expert’ will answer this question.
I’m a Class A truck driver with experience in nearly every aspect of freight. My experience in the trucking industry of 20 years tells me that nothing is going to change in the shipping industry.
It looks like I picked a good time to Saskatchewan-source our grocery essentials. Read the whole thing.
Ryan Johnson for PM.
Seriously!
Excellent Dissertation on the colossal Fuck Up that Supply Chain and JIT has become…REGULATION’s Ad Nausea…in every aspect of the Industry.
Forty years of falling interest rates have collapsed profit margins right along with them. Razor thin margins don’t allow companies the ability to pay to solve supply chain bottlenecks. They have no means to pay other than borrowing more. Most companies are tapped out, debt-wise, right now. Until interest rates fall some more into negative territory, there will be no relief for the debtors.
The last thing the economy needs is another law mandating who to hire and how much to pay them. If that was a successful strategy, the Soviet Union would have been the most powerful economy on earth.
There’s a long list of universities in Canada offering degrees in “supply chain management” yet they don’t include a 1A with airbrake license with them…
The guy wants MORE government regulation and MORE union control. Yeah, that will solve it for sure.
I quit reading the minute Mr. Johnson bragged about being a Teamster, and I see I wasn’t wrong to do so if he was advocating for more unionization and more government regulation.
I’ve driven out of ports too and it’s sucks ass with all the lines and bullshit, but I too was paid well hourly, had full benefits, paid vacation, only worked Monday to Friday, and was NOT a member of a salary draining union.
The problem isn’t a lack of unionization, the problem is too many unions and their brain dead membership.
“Why is there only one crane for every 50–100 trucks at every port in America?”
Maybe because it takes about a minute for the crane to load a truck with a container?
And then the next minute the crane loads another truck? And another truck?
How long does it take the truck to move the container to where it belongs? An hour or two to an LA warehouse? Two days to Texas? Three to KC? Four to Chicago? And then back with an empty?
Or is he talking about the Multimillion dollar cranes that unload ships?
How many containers do they move per hour? About 50-100 containers per hour?
They stack them, and then someone else loads them on a truck?