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Reply #30 on: November 04, 2021, 07:55:44 AM
not necessarily "The Answer"™ but some good on-the-ground perspective

https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91



good link, TR.  Those videos are....   just, wow

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Reply #31 on: November 04, 2021, 10:05:34 AM
not necessarily "The Answer"™ but some good on-the-ground perspective

https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91


That was interesting.  I wonder if problems with shipping, including higher costs, might wind up bringing manufacturing back to the US?  That would solve some of the transportation problems.  It might also have a net positive environmental impact, although I'm not sure how that would be factored in.

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Reply #32 on: November 04, 2021, 12:57:49 PM
That is a really good question. US companies sort of sold their souls to China from a manufacturing standpoint and now we are struggling to pay the devil his due.

I'll leave it at that because we could easily veer off the political discussion cliff with this one.

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Reply #33 on: November 04, 2021, 01:05:04 PM
I'll leave it at that because we could easily veer off the political discussion cliff with this one.

thank you

that's greatly appreciated

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Reply #34 on: November 13, 2021, 10:05:55 PM
not necessarily "The Answer"™ but some good on-the-ground perspective

https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91


That was interesting.  I wonder if problems with shipping, including higher costs, might wind up bringing manufacturing back to the US?  That would solve some of the transportation problems.  It might also have a net positive environmental impact, although I'm not sure how that would be factored in.

The problem with that is massive up front costs to bring back manufacturing capacity, combined with then having to train a work force to do it. And then you get to deal with essentially reconstructing the entire global logistics chain from the way it currently exists.