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Thread: The Supply shitshow
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11-17-2021, 02:11 PM #451man of ice
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11-17-2021, 02:25 PM #452
I think we are extremely close to seeing self driving trucks daisy chain behind one human powered rig. And boy will I celebrate the day we don’t have semi trucks getting in the left lane of 80 going over Donner Pass at 38mph to pass the truck whose gear ratio has then running 36 mph.
It is a valid point though of how will these self driving trucks put chains on? Maybe they just go around or wait out the bad weather?
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11-17-2021, 02:37 PM #453Registered User
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So it kept on raining and the levy did break
but not up here it didnt flood up narth but Vangroovy is cut off
So PANIC buy right ?
Gas up all the vehicals/ buy ALL the food in safeway, never mind that alot of stuff besides just COVID infections come from down east and the refinery is 400kms east
except nobody bought the turnips ^^ those poor turnips must feel like a grade school kid getting chose last in gym classLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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11-17-2021, 02:43 PM #454
^those are really nice floors for a grocery store.
I've read before that society is just 3 days of no truck traffic away from total chaos.
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11-17-2021, 02:44 PM #455
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11-17-2021, 03:14 PM #459Registered User
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Yeah it looks like they upgraded the floors from in this Vid altho the moose didn't seem to care but the floods started on sunday 1.5 days later there was nothing but turnips
there did seem to be TP so I think people are still using what they over bought for the covid lockdownLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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11-18-2021, 10:33 PM #460man of ice
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We might as well kill ourselves.
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11-18-2021, 10:52 PM #461
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11-19-2021, 09:22 AM #462Registered User
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About self driving trucks and bad weather. Since the trucks don’t have to worry about timing out for hours driven couldn’t they either be re routed around the weather or stop and hold until roads are cleared?
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11-19-2021, 09:55 AM #463
And the electric autonomous trucks should get priority at the Tesla charging stations because the mail's (and products and raw materials) gotta get through quickest amirite???
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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11-19-2021, 10:17 AM #464
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11-19-2021, 01:32 PM #466click here
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Hard to see where the problem is. A couple months ago I looked at container volume through LA and long beach, and it was 20% above 2020 and 2019. So, the triggering event was probably too many imports. Now that it's jammed up, it's less efficient. Sort of like a freeway after an accident.
It's unclear to me that this is a port problem. Certainly the port is having problems, but that jammed railyard in Chicago would cause the port problem. No trains -> no containers leave port -> port fills -> ships can't unload. Also a full port makes container moves take longer - that can screw up truck scheduling. With rail blocked, shippers flood to trucks, making it worse. Prices rise. There's likely higher priority containers that get to jump the line, making the lower priority back up deeper and longer. Some container owners start losing money and look to abandon contracts (who wants last year's bananas? or Nikes?).
Could be an Enron situation too. Some enterprising hedgie saw the system near the breaking point, and gained control of enough components to break it. E.g. say a train company hired DeJoy to schedule trains... Could also be an after effect of Trump's trade war. I've been reading about farmers unable to ship ag products to China for several years now. Rerouting all those ag goods could tie up a lot of logistics and disrupt the system. People still gotta eat. Side note - I bet shipping costs dwarf the tariffs.
Seems likely it's those 20% extra containers. In 10 months the port moved as many containers as either 2019 or 2020. Blasted a bunch of cargo through in Spring, too.
https://www.portoflosangeles.org/bus...tatistics-2019
https://www.portoflosangeles.org/bus...tatistics-2021
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11-19-2021, 03:43 PM #467
So when all these goods hit do prices plummet?
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11-19-2021, 04:23 PM #468
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01-09-2022, 01:51 PM #469
Both the wife and I haven’t seen any ginger ale, in any brand, for over two weeks. I talked to the Coke guy restocking the shelves at Harmons this morning about it. He also had not seen or delivered any in the past two weeks and has no idea why.
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01-09-2022, 02:30 PM #470man of ice
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Probably mainly because nobody drinks that shit.
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01-09-2022, 02:31 PM #471
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01-09-2022, 02:38 PM #472
THIS and it's the supply of cans and bottles that has been hit hard. So they have to make product mix decisions with fewer containers they just produce the most popular ones..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...ain-shortages/Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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01-09-2022, 02:57 PM #473
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01-09-2022, 03:08 PM #474
What about when you have a tummy ache? Or need to drink really shitty gin?
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01-09-2022, 03:21 PM #475
Ginger beer is the bomb. Local Costco had some around the holidays but gone now.
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