KC Kevin
The news is very mistaken when it comes to truck drivers
What is going on is that the ships sitting off the coast of California are sitting there because there are too many Sea Going Cargo Containers sitting on the dock, so they can't unload them until there is space.
They have truck drivers sitting there with the 10 wheel trucks & they are ready to go, but they can't, because those Cargo Containers need to be loaded on special trailers & there none available.
Those trailers are sitting there with EMPTY Cargo Containers sitting on them.
Those empty cargo containers are needed in China, Japan, etc. because there is cargo that needs to be loaded over there & they don't have any empty containers over there.
Because cargo can't be loaded overseas, that means that the factories over there will have to close down, because they have no where store the goods.
The Federal & State Gov'ts are trying to locate vacant property, so that the empty cargo containers can be off loaded from the needed trailers.
Then they would have the empty trailers to off load the full containers that are on a ship & when that ship is empty, they can bring in the empty containers to load the cargo ship with empty containers.
By the way, the number of cargo ships in the Harbor has been getting smaller in size, but it is not because they are unloading them faster than ever before.
It is because the US Gov't has told the ships leaving overseas ports were told to cross the Pacific Ocean at 50% of their normal speed.
That way, there are not as many ships anchored in the L.A. port.
Right now, it is all about Optics