Swift port operations closed in LA

What company do you work for now that you've quit SWIFT? They don't have a port terminal out of Long Beach anymore? Is that because of too many complaints or did they move off-site? I drive by their warehouses in Wilmington all the time. Sorry if I sound ignorant I'm just a newbie. Thanks full speed!

 

Why is CA such a blowhard state when it comes to trucking?

 

I know, yeah? Down with good wages!

 

i remember spending the day on the grocery dock and all unloading must stop every hour and a half for the union coffee break while most real work was done with immigrant labor

 

so why is the ports of long beach and LA dredging their ports deeper ?

 

Well, I will give you just one example: emissions.

We would like our children, along with ourselves, to be able to breath clean air. We're blowhards like that BTW: My compliments on the catchy sobriquet!

You see, I'm a So Cal native that remembers when the pollution was so bad in the inland basin that something called a "Smog Alert" was issued. This meant that while I was at school we were not allowed to go outside at all. I remember a small foothill, not mountain, but a foothill that we would easily hike on clear days, behind my school, being completely obscured by the smelly gray clouds. Unfortunately, Smog Alerts were common in the mid and late 1970s.

Big Rig emissions played no small part in the creation of the smog. Oh, cars did too, and we all know cars are regulated too.


So ,yes, laws and regulations were passed and enforced to improve California's air quality. Yes it was expensive and arduous, but dang it, it's one of the basic necessities for survival along with water, food, and shelter. See, most people probably don't think much about clean air until they don't have much of it to breath themselves anymore. Hence, the snide comments about California. Yet, now, there are no more smog alerts and when I drive though San Bernardino on a hot day, I can see the mountains! Couldn't do that 30 or 40 years ago.

If that makes me a "blowhard" I say, "Well at least I CAN!"

Peace