I saw that, could they make independent truckers employees to get around?

After a slow showing early Monday morning, an estimated 400 owner-operators managed to shut down truck traffic at all three terminals at the Port of Oakland on Monday to protest California’s controversial independent contractor law, AB5.

By Monday afternoon, the SSA, TraPac and Everport terminals announced there would be no night shift hours as the protesting owner-operators were only allowing around two company trucks per hour into the terminal gates throughout the day. On average, 250 trucks an hour would flow through the terminals on a typical work day.

Matt Schrap, CEO of the Harbor Trucking Association, who was in Oakland on Monday, lauded the demonstration.

“It was very impressive to see the power of social media on display at the Port of Oakland today,” Schrap told FreightWaves. “We watched the protests grow organically in a matter of a few days and brought together hundreds of individuals who feel they are being disproportionately impacted by this law.”

He said clarification is needed about how AB5 will be enforced and how to ensure owner-operators comply with the law. AB5 seeks to limit the use of independent contractors and largely classify them as employee drivers.

The HTA is a coalition of intermodal carriers serving the three major California ports, including Los Angeles/Long Beach and Oakland.

Oakland protestors, who own their own rigs and currently choose which loads they want to take, don’t want to work as company drivers as many would be forced to do under AB5.

Get ready to lose your shit......
"Joe Biden may consider declaring a climate emergency this week by issuing an executive order."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/0 ... ency-week/

As if shit isn't bad enough already ---- Joe will take more wells offline and prevent importing oil....
He really is destroying We The People.

TLDW;

Shippers are avoiding west coast ports, especially POLA and POLB, due to concerns over labor and strikes.

Freight prices are half what they were this time last year.

So it begins: on Wednesday afternoon, Amtrak said it will cancel all long distance trains starting Thursday, September 15 “to avoid possible passenger disruptions while enroute” as White House-led talks between freight-rail companies and unions continued in a race to avoid a rail-system shutdown Friday.

“Such an interruption could significantly impact intercity passenger rail service, as Amtrak operates almost all of our 21,000 route miles outside the Northeast Corridor on track owned, maintained, and dispatched by freight railroads,” the company said in a statement Wednesday, adding that it has already started phased adjustments which "include canceling all Long Distance trains and could be followed by impacts to most State- Supported routes”

“Adjustments are necessary to ensure trains can reach their terminals before freight railroad service interruption if a resolution in negotiations is not reached”

SEATTLE — A tentative deal reached overnight between railroads and union reps, President Joe Biden announced overnight, averted a strike that could have shut down railway lines across the country.

The two sides had been at the table for 20 hours, Biden said.

A strike could have been catastrophic for the economy and people commuting to work in Seattle and throughout the nation.

The announcement means store shelves should stay stocked and American goods will make it to ports of export. According to the Association of American Railroads, a strike would take $2 billion a day out of the American economy.

The agreement announced this morning does not mean the threat of a strike has been completely averted.