{"id":3324,"date":"2014-10-15T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2014-10-15T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:49:08","slug":"contract-yet-labor-slowdowns-adding-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/2014\/10\/15\/contract-yet-labor-slowdowns-adding-congestion\/","title":{"rendered":"No Contract Yet &#8211; Labor Slowdowns Adding to Congestion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/port-congestions-CONGESTION.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3312\" src=\"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/port-congestions-CONGESTION-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"port congestions - CONGESTION\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/port-congestions-CONGESTION-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/port-congestions-CONGESTION.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>No Contract Yet &#8211; Labor Slowdowns Adding to Congestion?<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, the dockworkers have targeted several terminals at\u00a0Los Angeles-Long Beach requiring additional steps in the normal safety inspections on trucks and chassis as they exit the facilities. This is causing insufferable delays\u00a0with the\u00a0already terrible congestion problems.<\/p>\n<p>From JOC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our sources are telling us the ILWU is purposely slowing down operations,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>said Eric Sauer, vice president of policy and government relations at the California Trucking Association.<\/p>\n<p>These\u00a0actions would be disruptive at any time\u00a0at the busiest West Coast ports;\u00a0they are particularly harmful during this time\u00a0because the ports have already been struggling with\u00a0congestion\u00a0brought on by strong cargo volumes, severe chassis\u00a0shortages and\u00a0delayed\u00a0rail service.<\/p>\n<p>From a trucking executive email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drivers are required to follow some new and additional steps after transiting basic roadabiliy stop. Drivers are now also required to make a secondary stop where drivers are asked to turn off their truck, step down from their truck, step away from the truck as mechanics inspect the truck, container and chassis before letting the driver leave. As you can imagine, this is a very tedious process and has congested the terminals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joc.com\/port-news\/longshoreman-labor\/international-longshore-and-warehouse-union\/tedious-ilwu-inspections-contributing-la-long-beach-congestion_20141009.html\">JOC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Superior Freight Services, Inc. will continue to provide the latest information\u00a0regarding\u00a0the West Coast negotiations and other news on our <a href=\"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/\">news page<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/blog\/\">blog posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If we can assist, please contact us at 800.298.4305 or <a href=\"mailto:superior@supfrt.com\">superior@supfrt.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Contract Yet &#8211; Labor Slowdowns Adding to Congestion? Reportedly, the dockworkers have targeted several terminals at\u00a0Los Angeles-Long Beach requiring additional steps in the normal safety inspections on trucks and chassis as they exit the facilities. This is causing insufferable delays\u00a0with the\u00a0already terrible congestion problems. From JOC: Our sources are telling us the ILWU is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[7,17,24,3,89,70,5],"tags":[21,28,110,63,71,112],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No Contract Yet - Labor Slowdowns Adding to Congestion?  - Superior Freight Services Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No Contract Yet - Labor Slowdowns Adding to Congestion? 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