With summer quickly approaching and Central Iowa receiving its first taste of summer weather, HVAC experts are weighing on what people need to know this year, especially with the supply chain shortage in mind.
christmas debates. what do you put on the top of your tree and you go with white lights or multicolored? exactly. here is debates. actually gotten hotter i think it is fair to say since the introduction of l.e.d. lights. in her all the white lights or do you prefer but say a colorful mix? and how do you talk your tree? with a star, an angel, or maybe something else altogether? so i want to ask shannon but i want to lead you with this first. stat of the night. christmas trees both real and fake costing up to 30% more this year. holy smokes. the reasons we are told by growers include inflation, a truck shortage, and record heat in both oregon and washington. a number of trees come from that part of the country. so if you re going to get a tree, get it out there. saw a bunch at whole foods today. bunch of nurseries around the area. so i may go out and get mine this weekend. but to the top or first. shannon: and angel, but this year i actually bought a
pushing, but these delays are inevitable right now. reporter: with nearly u.s. port in a backlog, the warehouse is using all of them, piecing together a working supply chain. we re going everywhere we can. otherwise these goods will not get to the stores and i m not going to have anyone missing out on their toys this season. reporter: to try to help with that, president biden announced two major ports in california move to operate 24/7. but the problem moves from the sea to the land. does that help you guys? no, it doesn t help. it just doesn t alleviate the problem which then we have once the containers are off the boat. there are not enough trucks or freight trains to move the containers on land. reporter: the truck driver and truck shortage is really the weakest link in this entire supply chain. if there aren t trucks to get the cargo from the port, then the ports get backed up. jim and erica, there s a growing
this happened. here s for from him. this is a capitalist country. no one wants the federal government to own or operate the stores, the warehouses, the trucks or the ships or the ports. our role is to try to make sure we re supporting those businesses and those workers who do. reporter: getting products to the store is an issue you with the truck shortage. i noticed in the car i was listening to the radio, i heard multiple ads for different trucking companies, trying to entice people to come to the trucking companies, talking about the benefits and other perks. have not heard that before. there s a big push to get people to drive trucks. arthel: also listening to pete buttigieg earlier, he said the administration is going to start expediting the processing of the commercial driver s license to somehow ease that aspect of this supply chain backup and i m going to be speaking with mario gregaro, the port of long beach, later in the show. we ll get more out of him as well. david spunt