In addition to the direct impact on California’s 70,000 owner-operators who have seven days to cease long-standing independent businesses, the impact of taking tens of thousands of truck drivers off the road will have devastating repercussions on an already fragile supply chain, increasing costs and worsening runaway inflation. The new law, passed and signed by Democrats, essentially outlaws independent contractors from operating transport trucks in the state of California. When it goes into effect later this week — after the US Supreme Court refused to intervene last week — California will be hit with a “truckpocalypse” shutdown of transportation capacity.As we have reported before, truckers are the life-force of America, they deliver everything from the fuel we use, to the food we eat, the water we drink, the clothes we wear, the medications we, and hospitals use, and everything else needed for us to survive. CA's attack against independent truckers comes on top of the fact that reports in 2022 show a nationwide trucker shortage already. In February 2022, the U.S. was already seeing a shortage of 60,000 truck drivers By June 2022 reports showed that even conservative projections indicate that by 2023 there will be a shortage of 240,000 drivers in the U.S. Many have already seen this graphic below of how important to our very survival truckers are to us, but it is worth taking another look at in light of the next issue hitting America, which is abnormally dry, and severe drought-ridden areas from coast to coast.
• “It’s bad when you have to ask yourself do I get food or pay a bill.”
• “I go several days in a month skipping meals or just not eating.” • “I am eating expired groceries. • “Bacon is as expensive as filet mignon used to be.” • “The cheap brand of hamburger meat is not cheap anymore.”When people see those type of quotes, out of context, many would think they are reading something about another country, not America. It is past time for Americans to understand this is America now, and act accordingly. Now Americans are going to have to add a probable upcoming water shortage into their prepping considerations. Read more at: AllNewsPipeline.com
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