Cargo containers, driver shortage

Ask the guys waiting 8 hours for a container if there’s a shortage of drivers.. it’s a mismanagement issue that the news overblown

 

Yeah, picking up and delivering containers out of a port is a very different gig than most. You probably want to do diligent research about it before you give it more than a glancing thought. The vast majority of the stuff I've read about those who drive the ports is seriously negative to my view of things.
If you have any familiarity about the legal efforts in the last few years in California to have employees legally treated as employees instead of independent contractors, it started with port drivers. There's lots of layers of that onion. Be forewarned!

 

I’m in Texas I’ve always heard container driving is where a driver goes when he’s been run out of every other type of trucking. Probably an exaggeration, but so many container trucks I see are garbage. Really poorly taken care of.

Pay may be good at the moment. I’d always heard they didn’t make much here cause of the wait time at the port.

 

Consider this, I read, there are currently 46 container ships, down from a record 80 in October, waiting to be unloaded. Think about that for a second, you have 46 ships with some that can hold 24,000 CONTAINERS,,,EACH, sitting. Like the "pileup posts" coming in, these spoiled brats want their crap yesterday, even though they have no idea it comes from halfway around the world, on a system designed in the 70's, what do you think will happen? It's got to backlog at the weakest point, and this is the result. When goods were made in Cleveland Ohio,( pick a US city) and shipped by common carrier, ( again, pick one that's gone now) we didn't have this problem and if current trends continue, and there's every indication it will ( Amazon is building a HUGE DC in Colorado Springs to sell this overseas crap), it's going to get worse before it gets better, if ever.

 

If I had to guess I would of never thought they'd hold 20k+ containers.

Even some of the stuff made here they can't keep on the shelves. One example is P&G products like Tide-Gain-Downy. A lot of the stores around here are pretty bare

 

I did some container work in Chicago. Waiting ingate and out gate can take hours. Then trying to find a spot to drop a container and then look for the one you are supposed to pick up sucks.