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s themselves. So the supply chain is broken but included in that broken supply chain is the parts to fix the trucks that broke the supply chain. So that's another explanation given. So the trucks have to be green. We don't have enough green ones. Let's see. Here's some other reasons. Truck driving schools, not enough of them. They're too slow. They're kind of expensive. Pete Buttigieg pointed out…
← Previous segment →truck drivers. Customers treat them poorly. I mentioned drug testing. In the UK they've got also a supply chain problem and they blame a backlog of truck driver license requests. I guess there are 50,000 people who have applied to be truck drivers in the UK but they can't get through.
Now what are the odds, given all these different reasons, what are the odds that the UK would be having a problem at the same time we would for a different reason? Just think about it. What are the odds there would be a massive supply chain problem in the United States with all these different reasons given and the UK just coincidentally would also have a supply chain problem for a completely different reason that their bureaucracy can't process them? What's going on? What's going on? Now somebody says it's really the same reasons in the UK or similar. Could be. Wouldn't rule that out.
Here's my take on it. I think there's something we're going to find out about this story that we don't know. There's something we're going to find out that we don't yet know. It could be that it's just this weird perfect storm that all these things happened at the same time and really the pandemic was sort of behind most of them. Right? Not all of them, but the pandemic exacerbated a thing that was already maybe on the edge. I would say that's believable. Could be. But it's happening in the UK same time. They're getting the same perfect storm. And what about other places? I don't know. So here's my take on this. I think there's some big ugly secret coming. A big ugly secret coming. Because let's just go through the reasons given and let me tell you how compelling or not they are. I believe that in the context of an emergency it wouldn't be hard to train new people quickly. How long does it take to learn to drive a truck? Two weeks? Two weeks. Couldn't you get there in two weeks? I suppose they loosened maybe, I don't know, the marijuana condition of the drug testing. I don't know if that's already happened but suppose they did that just because it's an emergency. They say all right, in the short run we're gonna lower our standards. How about using trucks that are not as green temporarily and then going back to the green trucks when you can? Don't all of these problems look solvable to you? Don't they? There are a whole bunch of problems but they all fall in that category of they look really s
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olvable but they don't look like they're getting solved. Something's wrong, right? Imagine Trump in charge and he realizes that there's a supply chain problem. You don't think he can fix that? Because I think he could. Because whatever is causing this is fear, bureaucracy or red tape, right? It's like fear, bureaucracy, red tape, inertia, politics, maybe something like that. Those are all Trump'…
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