How The Green New Deal Canceled Christmas

 The trucking issue with California LA ports, ie the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB), is that all semi tractors have to be current with new 

California emissions standards.  As a consequence, that mean trucks cannot be older 

than 3 years if they are to pick up or deliver containers at those ports.  This issue 

wipes out approximately half of the fleet trucks used to move containers in/out of the port. 

 Operating the port 24/7 will not cure the issue, because all it does is pile up more 

containers that sit idle as they await a limited number of trucks to pick them up.  

THIS is the central issue.

In effect, what this 2020 determination and settlement created was an inability

 of half the nation’s truckers from picking up anything from the Port of LA or Port 

of Long Beach.  Virtually all private owner operator trucks and half of the fleet trucks

 that are used for moving containers across the nation were shut out.