The article says different... The author's core claim is that unloading capacity is the bottleneck, specifically a lack of infrastructure (cranes - container chassis, mostly).
The costs of slowdowns at the unloading bottleneck is passed on to truckers, because most of them are contractors, paid by the load and not by hours worked... They're waiting in much longer lines than pre-pandemic, but aren't compensated for the additional time. So lots of truckers have quit driving.
So he's saying that the solution is to (A) invest in unloading infrastructure to remove the bottleneck, and (B) improve pay & working conditions to get the truck drivers back to work.
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Seem like the solution is simple: pay truck drivers to do the work that needs to be done.
The article says different... The author's core claim is that unloading capacity is the bottleneck, specifically a lack of infrastructure (cranes - container chassis, mostly).
The costs of slowdowns at the unloading bottleneck is passed on to truckers, because most of them are contractors, paid by the load and not by hours worked... They're waiting in much longer lines than pre-pandemic, but aren't compensated for the additional time. So lots of truckers have quit driving.
So he's saying that the solution is to (A) invest in unloading infrastructure to remove the bottleneck, and (B) improve pay & working conditions to get the truck drivers back to work.