>>9477311They're all contributing factors.
>Most trucking firms in California were put out of business by new standards laws>Shipping stopped for about 8 months in 2020, causing majority of the freight workers to go elsewhere for jobs and they stayed there>Half the truck drivers do not want to comply with other out of state COVID mandates like mandatory masks, mandatory vaccinations>Even more were unwilling to haul towards any plague zone major cities until fairly recently>Same thing with George Floyd riot zone major cities for the better part of about 5 months>Lack of work for a year put too many truck drivers and freight workers out of a job, and they either retired, got other work in something else, or decided to live on unemployment, >Average freight worker makes about as much as a Wal-Mart employee in 2021. It used to be nearly double what they made, so no one is going to break their back when they don't have to for the same pay>ICE actually did deport a lot of the freight workers after all... 