a chassis, and drive it out of the port, what happens to that box? well, unfortunately for a lot of the neighbors who live near the port, they are just dumping those containers along neighborhood street. one of the ladies who lives near the port of l.a., sonia said this. it s a bunch of neighbors that are very upset because taps it s a nonstop situation. i would go to work at 6:30 a.m., there was a trailer already blocking my driveway. i couldn t get out. essentially was abandoned. no driver in the trailer. so we would honk and honk and it was just crazy. so, they are dumping them in front of people s houses. and they are just waiting because of the gigantic backlog. ainsley: one spokesperson said look at these pictures. that s your holiday shopping right there. brian: here s the thing. also the cruise nothing for them to do. steve: they are on overtime. brian: it s not enough.
unthem into the trucks and some of the national guard to do it. i don t want to volunteer people fighting our wars, helping us during floods. i know you have other jobs. but it should be an option in order to get us whole again. steve: apparently the administration, because it s been a problem, they have been looking at national guard for a while. what s interesting about that, and it was great when bob said that on our program 10 days or so ago a clothing manufacturer trade group said call in the national guard, not only to, perhaps, drive the trucks but it there apparently is some sort of a problem with the licenses. but they have great suggestion. and that is unload the cargo at naval ports, which is brilliant because they are outfitted for the great big ships, just pull them up and move them out. the problem is, i don t know that this administration wants to give those union jobs to people who are not in the union. so they are probably going to go you know what? port of l.a., port
sandra: as courts begin opening and operating around the clock to unload the stuck cargo, there s the problem of getting goods out to the stores. the trucking industry is short tens of thousands of drivers. companies say it s hard to hire right now. sean, thanks for joining us. first off, what do you believe is the number 1 problem right now not just with the trucking industry but overall with the supply chain crisis? good to be with you. i d say under the most ideal conditions, the global supply chain is a complex and delicate choreography between each link in the chain. especially talking about port of l.a., port of long beach, which has been in the headlines lately. i d say every link in that chain is part of the challenge today and ultimately part of the
$17 billion for ports alone are part of the plan that the president has led on and i have been proud to work on. just to be clear, we ve been doing a lot of tactical work too. earlier this week i was with the president when he announced the port of l.a. is going to 24/7 operations. this reason this is important is that l.a. and long beach, which are both making this change, just those two ports represent 40% of the container traffic coming into this country. a lot of americans might have imagined it operated 24/7 but it has not worked that way in the past and it was not a simple thing to do but after the gatherings and convenings and the plans of action that we have been working on through the summer have been able to get to this point. now, on its own, it s not enough to solve the problems that we face. we re talking about everything from issues with a shortage of truckers to things that are happening in terms of how inventory moves around the country, but an important step and just o
because we finally heard from him today but we hadn t and this has been going on for quite some time. he was on television as well. he told cnbc that the supply chain problems we re seeing right now can actually take years to fix. he also said as he pointed out met with leaders at the port of l.a. and long beach to discuss solutions about the problem and you may remember this. about a week ago, he also mentioned that it white house task force had been formed to examine the problem and of course he continues to extol the extol the virtues of a infrastructure deal would with it constantly to dollars. while he has long proposed possible future approaches he has made precious little headway in solving the current problem and that is left a lot of critics questioning his fitness for the job. however, take your the white house tell it, today s announcement come the agreement, it s a step in the right direction to solve a problem and we all hope that will be the case because this is possibly