Good they only had 10 years to fix the piles of CRAP. The tractors should be melted to the ground and the ding bats that thinks tractors bellowing smoke is just fine, we'll pump that in YOUR house. Here I'm on O2 because of the crap I was MADE to breath for 25 years in shops full of unburned startup fuel.
BTW we were the ONLY folks in the Bay Area to have Evac Turbines in the 70s.
Not one of my journeyman are still alive. When you find an old diesel mechanic, shake his hand, they are rare as hens teeth..
You can ALL wait.. WALK to work.. If you see a shop on the way to work stop and drop off a couple of grand for future medical and shake their hands.. Maybe donate a lung instead..
Not all of us were so lucky to work in clean air environments their WHOLE life. What the clean air act is enforcing now was suppose to be enforced 10 years ago. BUT they kept relaxing the standard so OO (owner operators) could catch up. Well they didn't. They went on trying to squeeze out a living in a unregulated trucking world.. Stupidest thing since they did deregulate the trucking industry. You can't import "truck driving". For some reason businesses in the US forgot that part.. You cannot import the result of labor. Sounds funny but that is actually the problem.
Businesses want to bypass the logistics of portal to portal delivery cost. So do I.
The only answer is "Transporter Technology". LOL, otherwise PAY the drivers to drive and HELP understand the only issue there is, IS " the DOCKS are privately owned". PERIOD! It doesn't matter who regulates what. WHO owns the docks, who runs the docks who works the docks.
There are still a LOT of security concerns too. The west coast has a few ports, not just CA. Taxes vary a lot just state to state. You can save 60-100k per million depending on where you bring equipment into the country at. The differences in taxes alone. NUTS the whole corrupt crony crap THING!!
That's right over a set of cables.. or worse a terminal end screw that cost more to ship than to make because we don't or WON'T make them in the US..
Merry Friggin' Christmas. Rudolf was a stoner, Blitzen wasn't far behind.