It is reported that some over-the-road truckers will refuse to take loads to New York City. I have no first-hand knowledge of the situation and have no way to verify the scope of the boycott so I choose to not post any details. You all have search engines.
My request is for the addresses of "feeds" or videos that post images of bodegas and neighborhood grocery store shelves in New York City.
From an academic standpoint, the items/shelves that are depleted first and how quickly they are depleted are important. Prices are of secondary interest. Even if the grocery stores do not raise prices "players" will buy up the entire supply and then "scalp" as people panic when confronted with evidence of the shortage.
Maybe there will be no panic. Maybe the trucker's boycott is all bark and no bite. On the other hand, it might be a trial-run for events we will experience sometime in the future.
I see the possibility of a 'Bud Lite' level boycott and the consequences will be interesting. Once it starts, I'll push the elites closer to the edge as they see this becoming the Conservative 'go to', for all of their planned future schemes
ReplyDeleteJust my opinion, but I don't think there are enough independent truck drivers to make this boycott have much of an impact. The independent drivers are the only ones with the ability to turn down loads.
ReplyDeleteCommodities are priced on-the-basis of the last part sold.
DeleteThe independents are the haulers everybody calls when they have a hiccup...a dead tractor, 5% out with Covid and so-on. Taking independents out of the mix means that small boo-boos can not be easily healed. Perishables will become unsellable as fleet coordinators scramble to realign resources.
The flip-side is if the people living in NYC panic and start buying just-in-case. It would not take much panic buying to suck all of the in-transit goods out of the pipe-line. That would create empty shelves which would reinforce the panic.
Finally, drivers can call-in sick if they work for a large hauler and want to support the boycott.
the smaller Bodegas and other ethnic shops will bring in supplies from their extended family in NJ and CT. Its the large corporate stores that might suffer. My son is an O/O trucker and has always refused to go to the NE. He did this even as a company driver. If enough company drivers refuse then the companies will have to stop taking the jobs. I don't see it happening but people are pretty pissed off at the whole destruction of our Republic.
ReplyDeleteThis only works if they are not being looted and the the roads are semisafe.
DeleteYaknow, my mind was wandering in ways to produce difficulties that do not harm the driver.... 1 traffic jam, couple incendiary thingiies. That bridge gonna be shut down a spell. You say thats the only way to get in or out of there?
DeleteHaving grown up in NJ surrounded by NYC and Philadelphia/Camden the families have there own security. Most people think you have to cross one of the big bridges to get into NYC, you don't, there are other roads and bridges. There was a family grocer in Philly in the 70s whose family owned a boat and when riots and other BS would cut them off they would purchase in NJ and cross the Delaware.
DeleteI think your last paragraph is closest to the truth. Who will have the least amount of food? The marginalized (the poorest, the elderly, etc.). Considering the NYC organized crime slant, they would have considerable sway in how the trucking industry would supply the boroughs of NY.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I smell exorbitant profits for the instigators of this, latest crisis.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/report-trucking-company-cancels-shipments-new-york-city/
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OFF TOPIC: ERJ, as we move closer to spring and outdoor exercise is possible have you thought of finding a tractor tire
ReplyDeleteto add to your outdoor gymn? Lots of
exercise ideas on you tube.
I tried it one year but found it caused excessive strain to my back. I was grabbing the tractor tire and trying to flip it over.
DeleteConsulting with my daughter (Belladonna), she recommended that I remove it from the tractor first.
While it did make it MUCH easier to turn it end-over-end (especially when going up-grade) it seems like tutorials would have mentioned it if it was important.
https://www.michigan.gov/ogm
ReplyDeleteMost shipments goes to a distribution center, and the grocery company uses their own trucks to transport food to the store.
ReplyDeleteit was mentioned a little above. I think the real way this boycott causes problems is not in the number of truckers that refuse to haul into New York - there may not be all that many to make a real difference on the ground. I believe the real problems will come from the perception of a trucker boycott and the panic buying and the chaos that comes from that as the population of a major city rushes out to "get theirs before it is gone". Panic is contagious within any social heard.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's Tuesday so has anybody in NYC reported any discomfort yet? I'm pretty sure the mass media will not report it until it's three days ripe.
ReplyDeleteAny brave NJ readers available to do a research run into NYC?