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This was an odd read after this Ed Zitron piece[1] which included a tweet[2] mentioning how truckers aren’t paid when waiting in line to load up only when they
by twright 5y ago
This was an odd read after this Ed Zitron piece[1] which included a tweet[2] mentioning how truckers aren’t paid when waiting in line to load up only when they are actually moving something are they paid.
I’m going to hypothesize that there’s an enormous and possibly unfair labor requirement for moving these containers so the ships can be unloaded. As long as companies involved with these logistics are optimizing for profit bottleneck improvements won’t significantly change.
[1] https://ez.substack.com/p/there-isnt-a-labor-shortage-theres https://ez.substack.com/p/there-isnt-a-labor-shortage-theres
[2] https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1451163926780076032 https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1451163926780076032