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Two California Laws Have Made the Supply Chain Crisis Worse
by James Buchanan America is suffering a supply chain crisis that has caused empty shelves in many stores across America. The most obvious culprit is the Covid vaccine mandate, which has forced man…
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We have all been told by Biden and the Bidensters that the supply chain is the fault of everyone and everything other than those in government.
However, the truth is coming out.
America is suffering a supply chain crisis that has caused empty shelves in many stores across America. The most obvious culprit is the Covid vaccine mandate, which has forced many Americans into unemployment rather than take an experimental vaccine that has left over 17,000 Americans dead.
Why then is the Port of Long Beach in California, the apparent epicenter of this problem? Well, it turns out the Gavin Newsom government passed laws that have taken commercial trucks older than ten years off the road and have made truckers, who are private contractors, unemployable.
As hordes of ships wait to unload at California ports and elsewhere, some are shifting blame to the Golden State’s regulations on the trucking industry.
One recent https://api.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/19/facebook-posts/californias-trucking-regulations-may-have-had-impa/”%5Dnews article[/URL] notes “‘The NEWS says the California port situation is caused by a driver shortage,’ one viral post on Facebook said. ‘Not so fast: It is in part caused by a California Truck Ban, which says all trucks must be 2011 or newer, and a law called AB 5, which prohibits Owner Operators.'”
“The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed…”
“The post is referring to real California policies…”
“Many factors have contributed to the shipping backlog, including a lack of warehouse space and equipment shortages.”
“Most issues can be traced back to the COVID-19 pandemic, experts said, which resulted in factory closures and employee layoffs that crippled production worldwide…”
“The post points to two separate California policies: a law called AB 5 that was passed in 2019 and aims to give independent contractors more employee rights…”
“Critics, however, say the measure makes it nearly impossible for truck drivers to be independent contractors because they inevitably work in the same line as the companies they contract with. The Los Angeles Times reported in 2019 that out of approximately 13,000 truckers who serve the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, just a few hundred are classified as employees. Most are considered ‘owner operators’ who often lease their rigs from trucking companies…”
“To meet the current clean air regulations, the state Department of Motor Vehicles blocks new registrations of any oversized vehicles older than 2011…”
Gee, what a shocker. The do-gooder liberals in Sacramento pass laws that make most truckers unable to work and another law that takes all commercial trucks over ten years old off the road, and then out of the surviving truckers, who are able to work in California and who still have a legal truck, a looming vaccine mandate will further devastate their number.
It’s a wonder that anything is being shipped anywhere in California!
