California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies
Roads are full, one of the issues I've noticed from living in seattle for decades, more parents are driving their kids to school instead of buses. Morning and afternoon traffic is jam packed with parents and kids, causing major delays for rush hour, just to reach the on/off ramps.Also, the park and rides are full too early, meaning people have to drive or get to work 1 hour or more early. Parking never kept up with all the new apartment buildings, the newer ones are multi levels, and are already mostly full.Public transit has failed to keep up with demand, meaning more cars on the road.Then the limited amount of highways, trucks are stuck in traffic for hours, sharing the road.Uber and Lyft isnt a fix for less cars on the road.Now compound that by the hundreds of issues along the supply chain, decades old port design, same methodology from the 1960s on loading/unloading at the ports, limited space at the ports/warehouses, day long waits for truckers at the port, inefficiency from start to finish.Some ideas, Have the ports move containers to a farther location for pick up, during non traffic times, 9pm to 5am.  Have the National guard build some new depots outside of town, hopefully along highways.Optimize the ports, the containers are sitting too long in warehouses, and not enough cranes.The solution shouldn't be "ticket truckers" who cant fix the core issues.