The fact that there is not a freight railroad strike happening this week is a huge win for the US economy and its still struggling supply chain. But that doesn’t mean that the freight railroads are providing good service to their customers. Many of the problems tangling up the supply chain, driving up prices and slowing the economy can be traced to the steady decline in freight rail service in recent years.
But trains carrying ethanol are sitting idle 30% more than a year ago, and 40% more then before the pandemic, Cooper said. Rail delays are also a major part of the problem with the flow of goods through the Port of Los Angeles and the neighboring Port of Long Beach, the major entry points for shipping containers from Asia. There were 26,376 containers sitting on the docks at the Port of Los Angeles destined for railroads as of Monday.
So not the workers’ fault
If only we had immigrants coming to this country willing to work.....