California’s War on Truckers is Killing Its Shipping – By Daniel Greenfield (Front Page Mag) / Dec 16, 2022
“The volume of freight moving out of the East Coast doubles that of the West Coast”
I’ve written about AB5 before. It’s basically mandatory unionization backed by an effective ban on freelancers in California. Originally targeted at Uber and Lyft, it ended up taking out much of the state’s other freelancers except for the ride-sharing companies.
Truckers however proved to be a major casualty as I discussed in a previous article.
Last Wednesday, hundreds of truckers protested at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port, some trucks slowed down traffic on the 110 while others took part by refusing to take on loads.
Their message was timed not just for Los Angeles County voters who backed the leftists threatening to put them out of work, but for retired general Stephen Lyons.
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