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How it all started; an introduction for those who have been living under a rock
For those who have been living under a rock, this is a quick run down on how this mess started. Those of us who venture out of our NEET caves occasionally have been experiencing shortages of various types since the beginning of the Corona-virus scare. Initially it was toilet paper (refuses to archive), then after a bunch of chickens were destroyed due to lockdowns there were temporary chicken shortages as the major farms had to actually grow and fatten up a fresh crop of chicken. Maybe you've heard whispers about the chip shortage that has brought General Motors to its knees. Well, there's something that's going to complicate all of that by about a power of ten.
Courtesy of @Jimbobaggins
Who will transport the goods to their destination?
First up on the roster of problems is something the American Trucker Association has been sounding the bell about since 2018. There has been a shortage of truckers for a few years now, and the shortage is growing ever more dire. When President Joe Biden elected to issue vaccination mandates for truckers earlier this year the response was a wave of retirements. Some 8-10% of truckers are -- or rather, were -- Boomers, and many decided to say 'fuck it' and go home rather than get the jab. As usual the response from the elites is to import more foreigners (it's behind a paywall, if anyone can get me an archive, I would love you). Meanwhile one company in Texas is offering $14,000 a week ($728,000 per year) for qualified drivers.
In Britbongistan, there is not only a severe shortage of drivers, but also a shortage of petrol. Most Western nations appear to be impacted by supply chain woes currently, but details are still hazy on what this crisis will look like in each individual country. @Ahriman caught this gem by Epic Beanie Man himself, Tim Poole, which starts off discussing the driver shortage and expands to discuss the way the energy shortages can cripple any attempt at recovery.
Where will trucks to deliver the goods come from?
A bit of backstory: Back in ye olden days in 2011 President Obama signed diesel emissions legislation that applied emissions standards to diesel for the first time. Part of this involved all diesel vehicles being equipped with a tank and Device Exhaust Fluid system (henceforth referred to as DEF). Part of this set up is a sensor that measures the level of fluid in the tank. If the sensor is broken or the level of fluid in the tank is off, then the vehicle will not start. Due to the above mentioned shortage of computer chips, which all of these sensors require, there is now a severe shortage of this particular part. Thousands of trucks in fleets across the nation sit idle for want of a DEF sensor. From the article:
Here is a YouTuber describing the shortages and how it's effecting him. Note how puzzled he is. You are witnessing the normies realizing how bad things are getting.
And finally, the third aspect to the brewing perfect storm.
What will these goods be shipped in?
For those who are unaware, there is currently a global shortage of shipping containers. How did this happen? Wallstreet Journal talks about the shipping container problem in detail.
@Overly Serious has provided a good video discussing some of these issues and what to expect for the upcoming holiday season.
Kiwi @LaxerBRO has provided some good information on the maritime portion of the supply chain problems. Between the shipping container shortage, worker shortages, and bottlenecks in maritime shipping there are record numbers of ships backlogged and waiting to go out. This has the potential to cause global ramifications. Some ports have a backlog of up to 70 ships when the usual amount of ships waiting to leave harbor is between 0 and 1. The backlogs at the port are being exacerbated by backlogs in rail traffic.
But wait, there's more!
From the Kiwi Farms' own @Mr. Skeltal
From @Jimbobaggins
They're killing the heckin' piggos in Britbongistan! Thanks, @Ahriman

@Ahriman has found info on an upcoming trucker strike. Video below, with a linked article giving more deets in the updates section.
In Conclusion
What is being done in Burgerland at this moment:
• Biden shits himself, eats ice cream, and does nothing.
• Some states have mobilized their Nattie Gs to drive buses or go to hospitals in the middle of nowhere.
• Pete Buttigieg (Secretary of Transportation) has given it his best attempt of, 'we'll lower the age for truckers from 21 to 18.'
@bippu_as_fuck_ls400 has some ideas about solving the current port congestion.
What is being done in Britbongistan at this moment:
• Boris Johnson has mobilized the British military to drive supplies
• NHS rations chemo drugs to prioritize patients most likely to survive
• Boris Johnson offers visas to 10,000 foreign workers
@Hot Cup of Joe has shared that the requirements for truck drivers have been reduced and salaries increased. That's about the extent of things so far.
Aussie-land is basically screwed, so:
• Win the Emu War.
• Alternate option: Start guillotining your leaders.
• Australian PM has said they'll hold a meeting to discuss the problem in a year. RIP Aussies.
• Visit the Australian Totalitarian Megathread for live updates from the Aussies until this section gets sorted out.
Expected shortages listed by Industry and Country
This was going to be a lovely, neatly organized list because 'autism', but then things got real. Shortages are everything and everywhere. No, I'm not actually joking. Everything is out, or the base materials are out, or something. Welcome to the Endgame.
Updates:
• [ Oct 10 2021 ] Here's a good article on what to anticipate for Black Friday.
• [ Oct 29 2021 ] Biden has suggested rolling out the National Guard to help the situation and been smacked down.
• [ Oct 29 2021 ] Instead Biden has demanded that the unionized dock workers work 24/7 which is going poorly because there are still no trucks, and is fining the shipping companies.
• [ Oct 29 2021 ] Apparently we somehow have millions to loan to California to improve their ports.
As a personal favor to me: This thread needs you to discuss shortages, rising prices, and supply chain issues in your area. Please specify whether you live in a major metropolitan area, a suburb, or a more rural area. You do not have to say what state or city you live in. Just what the population density is like. For science.
PS - Postnudes photos of empty grocery store shelves.
• There's a relevant thread about Bill Gates and big corporations using the UN Food Sumit to push the Great Reset. I recommend it.
• We have a thread about the Great Reset here.
• Brewing volcanic activity at La Palma and associated weather emergencies could complicate matters further.
If this thread piques your interest in gardening or prepping then the Farms has threads for those.
For those who have been living under a rock, this is a quick run down on how this mess started. Those of us who venture out of our NEET caves occasionally have been experiencing shortages of various types since the beginning of the Corona-virus scare. Initially it was toilet paper (refuses to archive), then after a bunch of chickens were destroyed due to lockdowns there were temporary chicken shortages as the major farms had to actually grow and fatten up a fresh crop of chicken. Maybe you've heard whispers about the chip shortage that has brought General Motors to its knees. Well, there's something that's going to complicate all of that by about a power of ten.
Who will transport the goods to their destination?
First up on the roster of problems is something the American Trucker Association has been sounding the bell about since 2018. There has been a shortage of truckers for a few years now, and the shortage is growing ever more dire. When President Joe Biden elected to issue vaccination mandates for truckers earlier this year the response was a wave of retirements. Some 8-10% of truckers are -- or rather, were -- Boomers, and many decided to say 'fuck it' and go home rather than get the jab. As usual the response from the elites is to import more foreigners (it's behind a paywall, if anyone can get me an archive, I would love you). Meanwhile one company in Texas is offering $14,000 a week ($728,000 per year) for qualified drivers.
In Britbongistan, there is not only a severe shortage of drivers, but also a shortage of petrol. Most Western nations appear to be impacted by supply chain woes currently, but details are still hazy on what this crisis will look like in each individual country. @Ahriman caught this gem by Epic Beanie Man himself, Tim Poole, which starts off discussing the driver shortage and expands to discuss the way the energy shortages can cripple any attempt at recovery.
Where will trucks to deliver the goods come from?
A bit of backstory: Back in ye olden days in 2011 President Obama signed diesel emissions legislation that applied emissions standards to diesel for the first time. Part of this involved all diesel vehicles being equipped with a tank and Device Exhaust Fluid system (henceforth referred to as DEF). Part of this set up is a sensor that measures the level of fluid in the tank. If the sensor is broken or the level of fluid in the tank is off, then the vehicle will not start. Due to the above mentioned shortage of computer chips, which all of these sensors require, there is now a severe shortage of this particular part. Thousands of trucks in fleets across the nation sit idle for want of a DEF sensor. From the article:
Ongoing shortages of replacement parts for failed diesel exhaust fluid quality sensors are believed to be causing thousands of trucks nationwide to be disabled and parked.
The sensors, which measure the quality and level of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) in the tank, normally retail for roughly $300. But due to global computer chip shortages causing a backlog the part is being offered for sale — in some cases on digital retail sites such as eBay — for as much as $7,000, according to some industry technicians.
“It’s part of the global chip shortage,” Paul Enos, CEO of the Nevada Trucking Association, told Transport Topics. “We’re seeing trucks parked throughout the country. Just here in Nevada, 300 trucks are parked waiting for quality level sensors.”
Enos said there is a fail-safe that’s built into the selective catalytic reduction system of 2010 and newer trucks. “If it senses too much [nitrogen oxide] it will derate the engine,” he said.
Here is a YouTuber describing the shortages and how it's effecting him. Note how puzzled he is. You are witnessing the normies realizing how bad things are getting.
And finally, the third aspect to the brewing perfect storm.
What will these goods be shipped in?
For those who are unaware, there is currently a global shortage of shipping containers. How did this happen? Wallstreet Journal talks about the shipping container problem in detail.
Lars Jensen of Denmark-based shipping consultants Vespucci Maritime, traces the beginning of the container shortage to the early months of the pandemic, in the spring of 2020, when consumer demand slumped and shipping lines canceled many of their routes between Asia and North America.
@Overly Serious has provided a good video discussing some of these issues and what to expect for the upcoming holiday season.
Kiwi @LaxerBRO has provided some good information on the maritime portion of the supply chain problems. Between the shipping container shortage, worker shortages, and bottlenecks in maritime shipping there are record numbers of ships backlogged and waiting to go out. This has the potential to cause global ramifications. Some ports have a backlog of up to 70 ships when the usual amount of ships waiting to leave harbor is between 0 and 1. The backlogs at the port are being exacerbated by backlogs in rail traffic.
But wait, there's more!
From the Kiwi Farms' own @Mr. Skeltal
I work in aviation repair and my company subcontracts for Pratt and Whitney. A lot of the items we overhaul need piece parts that simply aren't in stock and/or have obscene lead times. A commonly used flange blank from the OEM has a lead time of NINETY FUCKING DAYS right now for whatever inscrutable reason. Ninety days for a $1300 hunk of inconel that needs further welding and machining to be serviceable.
The parts we turn for overhaul are generally needed in no greater than three weeks, accounting for vendor repairs and the shipping associated with them. It's gotten to the point that we are looking at having the parts fabricated locally just to have blanks and replacement parts on hand.
The shipping game is also kind of a crapshoot. Some days we get our incoming shipments on time, other days they get to the loading dock AFTER our outgoing shipments have left for the day (i.e. after 4PM). FedEx and UPS Ground both complain about lacking drivers, so we have to adapt to the new crap factor.
From @Jimbobaggins
Airline industries aren't being mentioned much in the news. Details will be added as they emerge; watch this space for updates.FedEx says it's rerouting more than 600,000 packages a day because it can't find enough staff to process them. Also said in article they lost over 450 Million dollars due to labor shortages.
Locally I know of a business so desperate for workers they're spending over half a Million dollars to house new workers in hotels. They already have 100 workers in a hotel and looking for 200 more. They're also offering to pick up and drop off workers with no transportation. Another company also rented out a old hotel for 2 years to house workers, even though they have to bus them nearly 30 miles each way. This is all in a near 100k metro so not some shithole.
They're killing the heckin' piggos in Britbongistan! Thanks, @Ahriman

@Ahriman has found info on an upcoming trucker strike. Video below, with a linked article giving more deets in the updates section.
In Conclusion
What is being done in Burgerland at this moment:
• Biden shits himself, eats ice cream, and does nothing.
• Some states have mobilized their Nattie Gs to drive buses or go to hospitals in the middle of nowhere.
• Pete Buttigieg (Secretary of Transportation) has given it his best attempt of, 'we'll lower the age for truckers from 21 to 18.'
@bippu_as_fuck_ls400 has some ideas about solving the current port congestion.
Here's a simple plan that @POTUS and @GavinNewsom partnered with the private sector, labor, truckers, and everyone else in the chain must implement TODAY to overwhelm the bottleneck and create yard space at the ports so we can operate against
1) Executive order effective immediately over riding the zoning rules in Long Beach and Los Angeles to allow truck yards to store empty containers up to six high instead of the current limit of 2. Make it temporary for ~120 days.
This will free up tens of thousands of chassis that right now are just storing containers on wheels. Those chassis can immediately be taken to the ports to haul away the containers
2) Bring every container chassis owned by the national guard and the military anywhere in the US to the ports and loan them to the terminals for 180 days.
3) Create a new temporary container yard at a large (need 500+ acres) piece of government land adjacent to an inland rail head within 100 miles of the port complex.
4) Force the railroads to haul all containers to this new site, turn around and come back. No more 1500 mile train journeys to Dallas. We're doing 100 mile shuttles, turning around and doing it again. Truckers will go to this site to get containers instead of the port.
5) Bring in barges and small container ships and start hauling containers out of long beach to other smaller ports that aren't backed up.
This is not a comprehensive list. Please add to it. We don't need to do the best ideas. We need to do ALL the ideas.
1) Executive order effective immediately over riding the zoning rules in Long Beach and Los Angeles to allow truck yards to store empty containers up to six high instead of the current limit of 2. Make it temporary for ~120 days.
This will free up tens of thousands of chassis that right now are just storing containers on wheels. Those chassis can immediately be taken to the ports to haul away the containers
2) Bring every container chassis owned by the national guard and the military anywhere in the US to the ports and loan them to the terminals for 180 days.
3) Create a new temporary container yard at a large (need 500+ acres) piece of government land adjacent to an inland rail head within 100 miles of the port complex.
4) Force the railroads to haul all containers to this new site, turn around and come back. No more 1500 mile train journeys to Dallas. We're doing 100 mile shuttles, turning around and doing it again. Truckers will go to this site to get containers instead of the port.
5) Bring in barges and small container ships and start hauling containers out of long beach to other smaller ports that aren't backed up.
This is not a comprehensive list. Please add to it. We don't need to do the best ideas. We need to do ALL the ideas.
What is being done in Britbongistan at this moment:
• Boris Johnson has mobilized the British military to drive supplies
• NHS rations chemo drugs to prioritize patients most likely to survive
• Boris Johnson offers visas to 10,000 foreign workers
@Hot Cup of Joe has shared that the requirements for truck drivers have been reduced and salaries increased. That's about the extent of things so far.
Uk has reduced the requirements and training periods for new HGV drivers, with some companies offering training as part of the package. HGV drivers are now being paid £55k~ a year, roughly $100k.
Aussie-land is basically screwed, so:
• Win the Emu War.
• Alternate option: Start guillotining your leaders.
• Australian PM has said they'll hold a meeting to discuss the problem in a year. RIP Aussies.
• Visit the Australian Totalitarian Megathread for live updates from the Aussies until this section gets sorted out.
Expected shortages listed by Industry and Country
This was going to be a lovely, neatly organized list because 'autism', but then things got real. Shortages are everything and everywhere. No, I'm not actually joking. Everything is out, or the base materials are out, or something. Welcome to the Endgame.
Updates:
• [ Oct 10 2021 ] Here's a good article on what to anticipate for Black Friday.
• [ Oct 29 2021 ] Biden has suggested rolling out the National Guard to help the situation and been smacked down.
• [ Oct 29 2021 ] Instead Biden has demanded that the unionized dock workers work 24/7 which is going poorly because there are still no trucks, and is fining the shipping companies.
• [ Oct 29 2021 ] Apparently we somehow have millions to loan to California to improve their ports.
• [ 22 Sept 2021 ] The EPA has told Cumin (producer of diesel engines) that they will not be allowed to implement a work-around for the failing sensors unless Cumin can assure that EPA standards will not be violated in the process of rolling out the fix.
• [ 22 Sept 2021 ] An independent group is currently working on an emulator.
• [ 23 Sept 2021 ] The OP has been updated to reflect problems with all major forms of transportation, including ports, ships, rails, trucking (holla to the OGs) as well as worker shortages compounding the problems with each. We're now an international thread! Britbongs, Aussies, Pajeets, and other assorted misfits are encouraged to share issues in their respective countries. I will expand the different sections to include info on what's going on globally as soon as I can. For now it's Burger-centric.
• [ 23 Sept 2021 ] The White House issues an official statement about the Supply Chain crisis.
• [ 25 Sept 2021 ] New York prepares to mobilize the National Guard to cover medical personnel shortages expected due to their vaccine mandate setting in.
• [ 29 Sept 2021 ] The Evergrande Financial Crisis looms large in China, threatening to drag the US Stock markets into a tailspin.
• [ 30 Sept 2021 ] There is allegedly a trucker strike scheduled for the near future
• [ 22 Sept 2021 ] An independent group is currently working on an emulator.
Meantime, the group working on the development of the DEF sensor emulator tells us that they’re hopeful they’ll have some useful information for you on building your own emulator. No matter how long industry takes to get this “fix” in place, be it later this week or weeks down the road, those who can use this emulator will be literal miles ahead.
• [ 23 Sept 2021 ] The OP has been updated to reflect problems with all major forms of transportation, including ports, ships, rails, trucking (holla to the OGs) as well as worker shortages compounding the problems with each. We're now an international thread! Britbongs, Aussies, Pajeets, and other assorted misfits are encouraged to share issues in their respective countries. I will expand the different sections to include info on what's going on globally as soon as I can. For now it's Burger-centric.
• [ 23 Sept 2021 ] The White House issues an official statement about the Supply Chain crisis.
• [ 25 Sept 2021 ] New York prepares to mobilize the National Guard to cover medical personnel shortages expected due to their vaccine mandate setting in.
• [ 29 Sept 2021 ] The Evergrande Financial Crisis looms large in China, threatening to drag the US Stock markets into a tailspin.
• [ 30 Sept 2021 ] There is allegedly a trucker strike scheduled for the near future
As a personal favor to me: This thread needs you to discuss shortages, rising prices, and supply chain issues in your area. Please specify whether you live in a major metropolitan area, a suburb, or a more rural area. You do not have to say what state or city you live in. Just what the population density is like. For science.
PS - Post
• There's a relevant thread about Bill Gates and big corporations using the UN Food Sumit to push the Great Reset. I recommend it.
• We have a thread about the Great Reset here.
• Brewing volcanic activity at La Palma and associated weather emergencies could complicate matters further.
If this thread piques your interest in gardening or prepping then the Farms has threads for those.
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