{"id":59655,"date":"2021-10-04T06:48:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T11:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59655"},"modified":"2021-10-04T06:48:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T11:48:23","slug":"the-coming-trucking-apocalypse-whats-causing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59655","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Trucking Apocalypse \u2013 What\u2019s Causing It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post__featured\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/ik.imagekit.io\/cityprepping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Capture-12-820x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ik.imagekit.io\/cityprepping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Capture-12-820x461.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post__header post-header post-header--layout--classic\">\n<h3 class=\"post-header__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityprepping.com\/2021\/09\/25\/the-coming-trucking-apocalypse-whats-causing-it\/\">The Coming Trucking Apocalypse \u2013 What\u2019s Causing It?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header__meta\">\n<div class=\"cats-list\"><i>\u201cWhile you\u2019re sleeping, they\u2019re hauling.\u00a0 Have you thanked a trucker?\u201d \u2013 Anonymous.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post__content typography \">\n<p>Even though the Coronavirus has wreaked havoc in the lives of people worldwide, truckers have been struggling to keep the country moving.\u00a0 Global lockdowns, massive shifts in consumer spending and supply chain issues, raw material disruptions, cyberattacks, canals getting blocked and backing up freight, and you name it, already put our just-in-time manufacturing and delivery systems in complete disarray.\u00a0 When these problems also hit the trucking industry hard, as we see now, recoveries are fragile, and further shortages become the current reality and possibly the future norm.\u00a0 Every year the US economy depends on ten billion tons of every commodity imaginable to be delivered to the tune of almost 700 billion dollars worth of goods. If the trucks stop running, filling stations that sell nearly 300,000 gallons per month and require multiple deliveries per day could run out of fuel in hours or days.\u00a0 Manufacturers, unable to deliver their products from plastic bottles to toys to tomatoes, would have to halt production and sit idly by.\u00a0 You would see shortages of just about everything in your stores within two days.\u00a0 That would spark panic buying and further complicate the problems.\u00a0 Within a week, the entire economy would grind to a halt if all trucks stopped running.<\/p>\n<p>Are we barreling down the road towards a trucking collapse?\u00a0 A complete truck collapse isn\u2019t necessary for it to get so bad that every consumer feels the impact in all aspects of their lives.\u00a0 Several significant problems are facing this critical piece of the supply chain.\u00a0 If it fails, the whole system will collapse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coming Trucking Apocalypse \u2013 What\u2019s Causing It? \u201cWhile you\u2019re sleeping, they\u2019re hauling.\u00a0 Have you thanked a trucker?\u201d \u2013 Anonymous. Even though the Coronavirus has wreaked havoc in the lives of people worldwide, truckers have been struggling to keep the country moving.\u00a0 Global lockdowns, massive shifts in consumer spending and supply chain issues, raw material [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[30957,3237,6856,10303],"class_list":["post-59655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-city-prepping","tag-supply-chains","tag-systemic-collapse","tag-trucking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59656,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59655\/revisions\/59656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}