Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "The REAL reason the US supply chain is backed up" video.

Troll account opened less than a year ago with no content, trash talking, pretending to know more about the problem than the people actually investigating the problem. Waiting has always been a complaint with truckers, because it often affects our income, and it doesn't just occur at the docks. Have had to wait in line not just hours, but a day or more before also at some factories and warehouses because of volume or production lag. Fact is, wait times at the docks on the West Coast have gone up considerably. But that is only one part of the problem, as this video does an excellent job of explaining. The port of Los Angeles and adjacent port of Long Beach cover 68 miles of coastline, and account for a quarter of all container shipping traffic in North America. For comparison, they handled 17 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) in 2019, compared to 7.5 million for the second-busiest port, New York-New Jersey, which covers 25 miles of coastline. The U.S. is the worlds largest importer and second-largest exporter, at $3.1 trillion and $2.5 trillion worth respectively. The Biden administration announced an initiative this month to operate the ports 24/7 to ease the flow of goods, doubling their hours of operation, and a number of major corporations have committing to participating in that effort.
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@ArkongBato ~ You're welcome! Someone else in this thread had a good point also about just-in-time deliveries, except I don't see that as necessarily bad, but it can make logistics more vulnerable to delays and less resilient when the distribution system is stressed, as it has been. It's a trade-off for being more economical and efficient, which is typically more beneficial.
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@bobsullivan5714 ~ Thought you Republicans were blaming the problem on a lack of truckers, Doc! Then it was delays at the ports. Now, you're using the high pent-up demand for goods as a bogus tool to attack labor unions! Republicans are constantly changing their story, because it's all about the fear and hate for them. Also, the problem is multi-faceted, the supply chain is a constantly moving puzzle with many pieces, but Republican simpletons only understand simple answers. Fire good, water bad! Or, water good, fire bad! Whichever story suits whatever Republicans want to believe or their partisan aims are at any given moment. It's almost as if the Republican goal is to completely obliterate their own credibility!
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@bobsullivan5714 ~ Your "experience" does not reflect that of mine or other truckers I know. Which doesn't mean that one never encounters difficulties with individual workers, whether at the docks, or at a non-union warehouse or factory, but that is not generally the case, and your accusation is overly broad and sweeping. Your baseless accusations against the ILWU offered no supporting evidence from any reputable source, and I find you to be less than credible. Yes, it was certainly possible for you to acknowledge that this issue involves much more than one piece, in this format or any other. Moreover, my replies in this thread are about pointing out there is more to the problem than any one single piece, and you respond to me by blaming solely one facet. Surely, you're intelligent enough to see your incongruity in responding thus. Your initial reply started off with vitriol, and continues with this last reply. Don't belong to a union, but truckers good; dock workers bad, or "Me good; you bad....Me virtuous; you evil" more accurately describes your own attitude displayed towards myself and union workers, so now you're just trying to project, in typical Republican fashion.
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The port of Los Angeles and adjacent port of Long Beach cover 68 miles of coastline, and account for a quarter of all container shipping traffic in North America. For comparison, they handled 17 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) in 2019, compared to 7.5 million for the second-busiest port, New York-New Jersey, which covers 25 miles of coastline. The U.S. is the worlds largest importer and second-largest exporter, at $3.1 trillion and $2.5 trillion worth respectively. The Biden administration announced an initiative this month to operate the ports 24/7 to ease the flow of goods, doubling their hours of operation, and a number of major corporations have committing to participating in that effort.
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