Supply Chains Issues To Last Years - Feds To Take Over Ports

[Slippy]

Yesterday while driving home from visiting Son2, DIL and Grandbaby, I enlisted Mrs S to help me with an experiment involving popular automobiles; Toyota 4 Runner and Tacoma. We contacted several dealers in the metro Atlanta area who advertised 4 Runners and Tacoma's on their lots.

EACH dealer contacted told us the same story; Limited 4 Runners and Tacoma's arriving at dealership and the average length of stay was about 3-5 days before being sold. I asked several sales people if they were having the best commission year of their careers and most said NO. "Sales were easier to make but vehicles were harder to get, hence they were selling fewer vehicles".

About 4 dealers had vehicles on the lot and for fun I said I would buy them, and offered to provide my credit card to hold the vehicle. No one took me up on the offer and 3 of the dealers admitted that someone had bought the vehicle earlier that day. Each said they would take my order on a pre-sale but could not tell me a date of delivery or a package/cost.

One said she'd call me back and provide a PayPal link which she never did.

It helped us pass the time while sitting in traffic in one of the most FUBAR cities in the south.

#PhuckATL

Slightly related, my local Honda car dealer is so short of techs that routine oil changes are now being scheduled 3 to 4 weeks out. I’m sure that heavy truck mechanics are probably also in short supply. This is a perfect storm of logistics problems. And it’s only going to get worse once the firings start for non-vax compliance. This past week I even bought wiper blades in anticipation of them not being available in the near future.

Yesterday one tv talking head reported that his grocer told him aluminum foil would soon be scarce. Sure enough, today at Walmart aluminum foil was almost gone. I started a conversation with a lady shopper in that aisle about the shortages. We’re talking a 50 year old housewife. She produced an email memo from some group advising items that would soon be gone from the shelves. Even 50 years old non-prepper housewives are jumping on the bandwagon and monitoring websites to anticipate shortages. Maybe ordinary Americans are finally starting to wake up.

Still zero new cars in inventory at the dealerships around me. Late model used car inventory is way down too. I’m trying to figure out everything I might need in the next 12 months and buying it now. Everything! Right down to underwear and shoe laces!

[Prepared One]

You better have your supplies up to snuff now. It's going to get much worse. I stopped at Wally World yesterday and the chip isle looked like it would the day a hurricane comes in. They had limited supplies of lunch meats, eggs, and TP. I found shock and Chlorine tabs for the pool but it was double the price. I filled up with gas and it was over 50 bucks for the first time in a long time. We had an AR meeting last week and we had an unusually high amount of customers in the past 90 days column. Buckle up fellers, it's going to be a bumpy ride.

[BucketBack]

I have an empty freezer in the pole barn. During the the last 4 outages, the old timer screw in fuse blew, and even though the genny was running the juice wasn't getting to the barn, even though it was plugged in , inside the barn.

I was waiting for some fish and game, or colder weather before restocking, that has become a sooner rather than later issue.

My TBlazer needs at least a bearing in the front drive system, so I'm not driving into town for food. The stuff may spoil waiting for a tow if it breaks down.

The bearing are only 1 year old. Local places put both in, except one used a generic, and Matzens used a Timken,

He said that the cheap one would fail in about a year or 10K miles.

It's been 15 months and 9K miles. He also doesn't work Fridays and I don't want a cheap charlie bearing installed again.
I'll limp to the repair shop 5 miles away Monday morning.
I'm just bumming. MSU is down 9-7 against Indiana

[hawgrider]

I have an empty freezer in the pole barn. During the the last 4 outages, the old timer screw in fuse blew, and even though the genny was running the juice wasn't getting to the barn, even though it was plugged in , inside the barn.

I was waiting for some fish and game, or colder weather before restocking, that has become a sooner rather than later issue.

My TBlazer needs at least a bearing in the front drive system, so I'm not driving into town for food. The stuff may spoil waiting for a tow if it breaks down.

The bearing are only 1 year old. Local places put both in, except one used a generic, and Matzens used a Timken,

He said that the cheap one would fail in about a year or 10K miles.

It's been 15 months and 9K miles. He also doesn't work Fridays and I don't want a cheap charlie bearing installed again.
I'll limp to the repair shop 5 miles away Monday morning.
I'm just bumming. MSU is down 9-7 against Indiana

Well that sucks eh!

[SOCOM42]

So what does this mean then? That they won't send the ones that will fit thru the canal? Half a loaf of bread is better than none.

The new canal locks are 180 feet wide and 1,400 feet long, still,

even at that size only 80% of the ships can pass through.

The only option for them is the straits of Magellan or South Africa.

To solve much of this problem is to make the shit here or do without.

[Slippy]

FUBAR!

The whole thing is FUBAR

[BucketBack]

The U.S. transportation secretary on Sunday warned that America's supply chain woes including clogged ports will drag into next year, potentially cramping the upcoming holiday shopping season in the world's largest economy.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/bi...r=0105020yz4qx

[Smitty901]

And Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, will do all he can to ensure it last a long as possible. The agenda of bring America will be followed.

[shootbrownelk]

I noticed a lot of empty shelves at WallyWorld this morning. TP, paper towels mostly gone. Not much in the snacks aisles either. Lunch meat. eggs, bread etc. spread pretty thin to look like there was more there. Pretty sad. Funny thing, no such supply chain problems under Trump, and gasoline wasn't $4.00 a gallon either.

[Sarge7402]

Today on Fox News, the talking heads suggested that the supply chain problem could be improved simply by sending the ships anchored on the west coast thru the Panama Canal to the east coast pits. Only one problem…… many of those ships are too big to go thru the canal locks. There are no easy answers to this problem and the feds taking over the ports sure as hell ain’t gonna solve it.

With the expansion of the locks that finished in 2016 the canal is 55 Meters wide. should be no problem for the ships