NOT PRACTICAL: Trucking industry pushes back on California’s latest green energy mandate

JKC Trucking co-owner Mike Kucharski details worries truckers feel amid California's push to ban diesel fleets on 'The Bottom Line.' #foxbusiness
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[@johnfun3394]

As a truck driver I think I can speak for the majority of drivers will be glad to stay out of California. It would take less than a week of boycotting for them to change their minds.

[@jimmycannon8057]

Leave California and do not allow their electric vehicles to cross the California state line to get products from outside states. Let them fend for themselves. Just cut them off. It's as simple as that. Basically give them a dose of their own medicine

[@jonnip7225]

I dont know, i think its more of the sameplan, one more way to drive people out, buy up property for pennies on the dollar, wait a few years and cash in. The rich gettin richer.😮

[@brandivanemon7930]

​@@jimmycannon8057that's great but where are the products going to come in to be delivered? California has 80% of the shipping yards.

[@rhiahlMT]

I have a feeling this will get to the point where they will sue under the Interstate Commerce Act. Likely the Feds will have to step in (commerce)m primarily Congress. Yep, truckers boycott California we will all pay in the beginning because of the goods that come from the ports, but the rest of California will hurt desperately before the rest of the country. I'm willing to take that pain to shut them down. You talk to Californians and they seem to think having the world's 6th largest economy means something. It doesn't mean squat if you can't move goods to the rest of the Nation. I'm sure Canada and Mexico would love for goods to come through their ports to get to the rest of the US. More money for them. Where is that 6th largest economy going to be then?

[@Poxenium]

you really think your crappy Diesel truck is better than electric?

[@travistracy6531]

It’s not actually hard to fight this. Move your trucks out of Cali and refuse to deliver goods in Cali. Let them suffer.

[@rkersch]

That would be the BEST solution!

[@androidfolife1179]

I promise they will cry so quick just stop delivering period!

[@walden6272]

Wouldn't work since Elon Musk will use that opportunity to push his Tesla Semi as the only carrier to ship into California. More money for him. And if more truckers protest, Tesla will simply replace them.

[@braddouglas7839]

​@@walden6272Elon came right out and admitted that "Electric" semis wouldn't work. We don't have the technology for Electric vehicles hauling that much weight.

[@walden6272]

@@braddouglas7839 No way. He will push forward with this Tesla Semis even if it's just hype, he needs the investors to believe in it.

[@wiseguy2469]

As a CA resident I urge every trucking company to stop all services in CA for 1 week to show the morons in charge what will happen.

[@Bigmouth660]

They'll just Amp up train deliveries

[@squirts1]

ok but why? strike with what demand? what's the point? What would the drivers gain by not working? It's a stupid idea and makes no sense.

[@wiseguy2469]

@squirts1 you must be joking or you don't understand the situation CA is pushing. Basic common sense bro.

[@squirts1]

@@wiseguy2469 Your response literally says nothing. Again, HOW would a strike benefit the drivers? What would be the goal? What exactly would it accomplish? What makes you think truck drivers are aligned with you against electric vehicles? This legislation doesn't even do anything for 12 years... It will change again in a few years. Stop freaking out over politicians pulling stunts that don't affect anything.

[@wiseguy2469]

@squirts1 One the issues start this year with banning over 87k trucks in the state. The electric truck are double cost and wieght. No way of producing power for the charging stations. They calculated one 30 truck charging station takes enough power for 80k plus homes. It's like you never done any reading about this situation.

[@scotttyson607]

The way to fight this insanity is for trucking companies to refuse to operate in California. The political factors will quickly solve themselves.

[@danor6812]

1 week and the people will demand they fix what they screwed up.

[@CMiller87]

I've talked to a bunch of truckers about a boycott on California and most wouldn't take part because there ignorant to what it would do and didn't want to listen or just don't care about anything but the money.

[@danor6812]

@@CMiller87 So have I. Most don't seem to understand they would have the rest of the country to work in. That's enough work to pay the bills then some.

[@exoticlimo83]

So true!!!

[@exoticlimo83]

So true!!!

[@grsmnky1]

Truckers should cancel deliveries to California. it will not take long for the idiots in charge to see the light.

[@joeysartain6056]

California needs to go back on their own grid instead of a nation wide grid. Let them solve their own energy problems for a while.

[@fnusecurity5112]

I was wondering. Why is California getting energy from other states and not producing any themselves? Don't make any sense. Then complain about t? Like if you don't like how your energy is coming from, make your own.

[@rcpilot179]

5th largest economy in the world. I don't think that their worried about getting cut off, from anything. This electric vehicle plan is nothing new. They announced it over a year ago. Just faux news infotainment.

[@2fuzy]

@@fnusecurity5112 they do produce electricity in California and every state except TX gets and gives power from the national grid systems

[@customsolutions7167]

​@@2fuzygood for texas😊

[@2fuzy]

@@customsolutions7167 not always “My savings is gone,” said Scott Willoughby, a 63-year-old Army veteran who lives on Social Security payments in a Dallas suburb. He said he had nearly emptied his savings account so that he would be able to pay the $16,752 electric bill charged to his credit card - 70 times what he usually pays for all of his utilities combined. “There’s nothing I can do about it, but it’s broken me.” Mr. Willoughby is among scores of Texans who have reported skyrocketing electric bills as the price of keeping lights on and refrigerators humming shot upward. For customers whose electricity prices are not fixed and are instead tied to the fluctuating wholesale price

[@tp-mh2ji]

Let's do a truck boycott in California starting 10/1/2023...End boycott when Newsome resigns.

[@ryanguitargodfrey]

Yet no ban to stop private jets that output more carbon in 1 flight than a person will produce their entire lifetime of usage

[@fladave99]

Gov terminator use to fly his jet LAX to Sacramento DAILY

[@RowdyBorders-ni3ti]

Joey Kerry’s resembles that but he’s your boss

[@anunnakimenagerie]

If electric vehicles were really a good solution, those in power would be suppressing the technology, not pushing it

[@joeo8396]

They have invested heavily in electric. Its all about making money. Period.

[@michaelkendall662]

@@joeo8396 it is all about the PRC making money

[@Poxenium]

that's some double reverse conspiracy psychology thinking

[@bobhope8404]

Bingo

[@blackrhino3442]

That’s for sure

[@edwincathey5260]

I have been driving 18wheelers for 25years and I have been saying ever since I started that California is not truck friendly and should be boycotted until they are!

[@lieffian]

Simple fix, don’t deliver to Cali, that will turn the people against the government which will force them to renounce the policy

[@mrsleep0000]

Don't count on it, the people here are brainwashed and ignorant.

[@jexy_marshall]

Yep, resist the higher pay and boycott

[@carlos1750777]

This dumb law needs to be Repealed ! Vote every democrat out of office. Gets some new people in there .

[@bufordlee9468]

How about Just some Good People!! 15 yrs ago trump was a democrat. Lmao

[@kennethhowell1272]

You are still thinking we Americans have an honest voting system. We do not.

[@bufordlee9468]

@@kennethhowell1272 Right It's a farce!

[@bufordlee9468]

@@kennethhowell1272 re you still thinking america is even still in existance? It was Sold Long Ago.

[@rod675]

Do you ever get the impression that they have been messing with elections for YEARS now?...in California

[@leegilley221]

Simple, just stop delivering anything to California. Enough said.

[@michelleheryford4592]

Bingo! Let them be their own self sustaining mini country

[@rdmytuser6695]

it doesn't work, tons of shipping containers are arriving in CA everyday that need to be delivered to parts of the US

[@leegilley221]

@@rdmytuser6695 have ships go to other ports.

[@julesleg]

They can put all the illegals to work unloading boats from China instead.

[@julesleg]

​@@rdmytuser6695Went thru it before.

[@bobhope8404]

We need to stop complying and hold these people accountable. This is economic terrorism on the American people. Have you had enough yet?

[@steve7720]

Would you like regular terrorism from using diesel made from oil from terrorists in the middle east. Electric trucks run on American energy

[@cclvn]

Do you think the California voters would finally get a clue and connect the dots if Ca. was boycotted by the trucking industry. The green cult has no common sense. The level of incompetency by these legislators is frightening.

[@williamwheatley1604]

Get rid of all dumbocrats in a political position.

[@jdam568]

Sure have!

[@iamkesha.]

In order to red pill a Dem, give them exactly what they want. They don’t want trucks in California, don’t go and try to divert shipping ports to the east coast and use the Panama Canal like the Suez Canal. It might cost a little more but businesses can’t operate in that kind of hostile environment. When Californians start to starve, maybe they will change their policies.

[@downburst3236]

On day 3, when electric trucks cannot do the job, they will ask for the diesel trucks back, and the electric trucks will go to landfill.

[@jimvanderveer3203]

Its sad how politicians make laws to harm the trucking industry when they have no clue how it truly works

[@barbaradienna1497]

Politicians & Unions failing … Biden agenda of failure!!!!

[@jerroldrieger5345]

The democrats bidens handlers are using executive orders that are effing every American citizen I call what they are doing the ef America tour

[@lastmasterofcolor2223]

They know but they want to make it hard for Americans

[@joefell7845]

​@@lastmasterofcolor2223No, most politicians know squat about anything.

[@nicholasklangos9704]

These liberal commie Democrats constantly make laws that do NOTHING FOR REAL AMERICANS who keep this country and world working and alive!!!

[@andyharman3022]

If California persists, the trucking industry will just abandon making deliveries there and drop their trailers at the border. Then California can get all of their new citizens bicycles and they can carry the loads the rest of the way to their destinations.

[@shawngregg3796]

Mentioned that to a friend of mine months ago. Logical minds think 🤔 alike😊. Keep 💬🤔 thinking.

[@user-rx9rh1mq4o]

Hey dumb hit, when tesla FSD becomes fully operational, there will be no need for truck drivers...if you would do just a little research and you would see that the technology is improving rapidly

[@bobross8569]

That's literally what it will take.

[@user-jc8rz2jj9r]

I like it! Maybe they can hire all the illegals and homeless to help.

[@gregjames3001]

I have been telling driving companies being applied to for years that I will not enter the state of Caliphuckinya , ever ! & I have been told often that I'm not the only one who says that , , ,

[@patrickmiles9201]

When I was a truck driver in the 90’s, my carrier MANDATED that we could not get fuel in California because of the cost. THAT WAS THE 90’S!!! Now they want to go all electric. The trucking industry needs to cancel California the way Americans canceled CNN PLUS!

[@meandshe1518]

It's going to be really simple: the ports in California will cease to operate. Goods will then be imported through ports in Texas and the East Coast.

[@paulmiller657]

If all trucks stopped tomorrow going to California, it wouldn't take long for them to change their tune!

[@tmdrake]

They should be a good reason to move

[@Fargo2024]

100% Paulmiller !

[@2fuzy]

I haven't taken a run to California since 2009 simply because I hate dealing with their dot and speed limit and traffic...but as long as someone can make a profit going they will and being we buy lots of stuff from the other side of the pacific they will pay what it takes and as such so will you ....welcome to the free market it has no conscience

[@gary4507]

I'm a retired O/O since 2020,but I stopped taking loads to CA in 2010.

[@dobsr1184]

No they won’t They are not bright there

[@missyprissyable]

The trucking industry should leave California high and dry.

[@denniscartter6029]

O now that's a really intelligent comment Rethink before you leave your comments

[@388easymoney5]

@@denniscartter6029 No actually that’s exactly what should happen. The i d i o t s keep voting in the progressive left wing Marxist so they only have themselves to blame if there is nothing on the shelf.

[@JaneDoe-ng3zm]

@@denniscartter6029 let their store shelves become empty then they will beg ANY truck to bring them food ect

[@blackjackjoker2759]

Many times I think back to the Superman movie that starred Christopher Reeves as Superman and Gene Hackman as Lex Luther. Lex Luther’s plan was to buy up land in the Nevada desert for really cheap and then set off high powered explosives along a major fault line which would sink California into the ocean turning his cheap Nevada land into oceanfront property. His plan makes more sense now than it did back in the ‘70s.

[@DISOPtv]

Just stop delivering and picking up in California. Problem solved.

[@FoundationsofPause]

Just let the tesla auto pilot do your job. Find something better than picking up lot lizards.

[@annscrafts2965]

This is why math is no longer taught in schools. Google the number of semis just in the US. Figure for every 30 trucks they will use the electricity for 150,000 people (the population of the city mentioned) There aren't enough people in the world to "borrow" the electricity from.

[@muffs55mercury61]

So true ! There are a lot of things that it doesn't take rocket science to figure out.

[@sugarshaker9162]

That's right the government doesn't want us knowing math as if California Democrat liberal voters were not already stupid enough

[@ezrollerj]

boss we're at 99% capacity.... "quit using math white supremist"

[@generalbiochemistryi8498]

Have they checked with the municipalities to see if they can afford to charge all those trucks? I seriously doubt their infrastructure is prepared to handle the load.

[@sugarshaker9162]

Exactly they can't even keep the electricity on when there's a breeze or a heat wave

[@mikmik9034]

Establish the Rule, then force the need. California already has Grid problems, They expect that at 20 minimum wage per/hour, pluse OT plus increased Holidays, plus Family Leave, plus Paid Medical, plus paying people to not work? All in this time of Government caused Inflation? When I was a preteen I paid 10¢ for a Nickle Candy Bar, and the comic books were 10¢ goinh to 15¢. Telephone calls cost a Dime. jumping to 25¢, my last professional hair cut was $2.50 Minimum Wages only feed inflation, the worker is never going to 'catch up"

[@natcalverley4344]

As a retired driver with 45 years experience I can tell you just look north to what Canadian truck drivers achieved by peacefully banding together. If American truck drivers and transport companies did the same this madness would stop. A huge amount of food is produced in California so this would hurt on a level never seen in American history as grocery stores ran out of produce and foodstuffs. Food prices would skyrocket and civil unrest would be at a level never seen before. Apparently this is what politicians want.

[@L.Scott_Music]

I am a Californian and would hate to see this but maybe the California government needs to experience a trucker boycott of delivering goods to and from the state. A few days to a week will certainly be enough.

[@geoffsaemann4241]

I disagree. A trucker ban would be most harmful for ordinary citizens. The upper classes can either fly stuff in that they want, or leave the state entirely. Good idea, but in the end, you’d end up screwing over the wrong people

[@donnafisk2014]

​@@geoffsaemann4241shop lifting is ok in California,thanks to. Newsom ,and he wants to be America's president, polossi will have her power back then

[@FresherDenamug]

​@@geoffsaemann4241what about having all the companies and truckers affected to simply refuse. if every company threw the finger and just ignored it, what is Cali gonna do?

[@marcellabrowning315]

​@FresherDenamug fine them, seize the rigs and cargo, toss them in jail from check points. Truckers say the authorities make big money from their violations.

[@L.Scott_Music]

@@geoffsaemann4241 Except the people of California keep voting in rotten candidates. Like I said, I don't want this but it's getting to the point where the out of control legislation has to feel some political pain and the only way that happens is if the people of California give it to them. However, I must admit the example of San Francisco would suggest there is no amount of pain the people won't endure and keep voting these rats into office.

[@user-jc8rz2jj9r]

The government simply NEEDS TO GET OUT OF PEOPLES LIVES!!

[@customsolutions7167]

Vote them out ..

[@MarquosXoloVanda]

​@@customsolutions7167you'll learn that you CANNOT vote yourself out of this mess.

[@customsolutions7167]

@@MarquosXoloVanda So do what then. . 😊

[@kevinstenger4334]

My neighbor is one of the power distribution engineers for the TVA in Tennessee and he is in these meetings and conferences all around the country where they are discussing how to adapt the power grid and increase generation capacity to meet these needs. He told me he just came from one where they told everyone that TVA is all done building infrastructure for “potential and future” demands because they have been burned too many times when it doesn’t materialize. Most recently was Facebook saying they needed 400 megawatts for a new data center they were going to build, so TVA spent millions of dollars on capacity and distribution equipment and they end up using less than 20 megawatts. So now their position is that if you want to put in a hundred or even a thousand charging stations then go ahead, once we see the actual demand we will upgrade to supply it but not before. So this pipe dream of forcing a rapid shift to EV’s is just that, a pipe dream. Just back off and let the market drive the transition and accept the reality that EV’s are not a universal replacement in all applications and in all areas.

[@karlostj4683]

California in 2023 is behaving like California in the 1860s when "The Big Four" monopolized railroads in California. Anything shipped across CA - either from CA ports to other states, or from other states into CA or to its ports - had to be carried within CA by the railroads owned by Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.

[@headfirst6227]

California ports will simply go dark. Shipping will move to more practical sites and California will lose it’s most important asset.

[@larrysmith8635]

Good it needs to drop off into the ocean. Gone forever. Clean up America good bye california . Nothing but drugs and really sick twisted people

[@mikepalmer2219]

Good. Maybe they will go extinct.

[@jonathanjones3126]

California's only leverage left on the country is their ports, if their ports are forced to shutdown it would help California in the long term.

[@bertrpk]

With all of the rolling blackouts and energy shortages in California, where do you charge a truck.? And if a storm rolls in?

[@Harlandcromartie-nb8jr]

A good question on that because environmentalist climate change activist they didn't think that far ahead it's most likely the plan is to starve the entire population

[@Ricardo_Wade]

California hits 90° and we start with rolling black outs these charging system per company will blow out all our electric demand 😂

[@davidhenderson3400]

If they do this I see a giant landport being built just this side of the California state line

[@buckwhitetail1876]

A giant drop yard where trailers sit and wait for an electric tractor to finish the trip. What a clusterfork that would be.

[@Austin_Torres]

Newsome is to blame

[@Trump2024FJB]

dictator

[@larrynone6354]

You mean pretty boy.

[@anitablades6033]

And some people think if Biden doesn't run, they should ask him to fill in, get real !!!

[@denniscartter6029]

Really a intelligent comment

[@Trump2024FJB]

@@denniscartter6029 hey Dennis You didn’t spell Carter* right 😂

[@tempusfugit6637]

Ya can't sit down with them...they aren't interested in listening, it does not fit their agenda........ Control!

[@LazloArcadia]

There is a really simple resolution to this whole mess: Tell them no! and refuse to deliver anything across the state line into California other than on diesel powered trucks. Once they realize just how much of their consumer goods are delivered via trucks (virtually all of them) they will absolutely back off of this foolishness.

[@jackfntwist]

It's hard to do with the DOT and the Federal government backing this nonsense.

[@Thetreecutter]

It's very simple. STOP Delivering or picking up products to or from California‼️

[@AmericaFirst2]

Truckers should just stop delivering products to California and NYC 😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@DCBChump]

The problem is that the ports in California bring in most of our goods from Asia.

[@AmericaFirst2]

@@DCBChump we have ports on the east coast and in gulf just change the shipping routes.

[@TruthFiction]

@@AmericaFirst2 Sure, doubling the distance and time involved in shipping won't have any impact on increased prices.

[@AmericaFirst2]

@@TruthFiction California isn't the only state on the west coast, bring jobs back to the US and shipping won't be a problem will it 😉

[@yvestrembleau2396]

​@@TruthFictionunload ships in Mexico and send goods by truck or rail via New Mexico, Arizona and Texas

[@samuelhowie4543]

What some people don't know, is that a number of trucking companies don't operate in California because of the regulations. There are way stations at the state line where companies drop loads then companies that do operate in California pick them up and haul them wherever they need to go.

[@markmerkin3701]

It’s amazing how they’ve demonstrated in the last three years how many people they can hurt in order to not help us at all. 🤷

[@gospelaccordingtojohn8959]

JKC should move out of California. Then limit the deliveries to Californians. Perhaps the loons that still live there will revolt

[@Sirshackleton]

Let’s just stop delivering to CA. They can use their electric trucks to deliver their stuff. 😂😂😂

[@TruthFiction]

Goods aren't being trucked TO California, they are being trucked OUT of the state.

[@messagegoeshere741]

Change the routes. Go through Mexico if you have to, the Panama canal, heck! It'd be cheaper than going through Cali

[@dondoyle8474]

California will face major supply chain issues and prices nobody can afford. Better get out while you can 🤔

[@Zak6959]

They can’t even keep the lights on as we speak. Imagine plugging in all the trucks to the grid.

[@DR.6an6al-IRAQ]

As truck driver working in Washington and Oregon states, the moment we hear name of California we feel sick and reject any load going there.

[@t.dig.2040]

When politicians only knowledge of the supply chain stems from their maid's trip home from the grocery store.

[@cedricjackson7521]

The state of California did not think this through at all. They didn’t take into account what it was going to cost trucking companies by forcing them to buy EV semi trucks at three times the cost

[@jerrybriggs3233]

Stop delivering to California ! 😡

[@1776AmericanWarrior]

Given they allow people to identify with whatever they want in California, just have your diesel truck identify as an electric truck….

[@nitinnahar7801]

This would make perfect sense to a California politician.

[@meandshe1518]

Makes perfect sense to a Californian legislature and most of voters there.

[@FoundationsofPause]

*rolls coal in a manchild fit of rage* DESANTIS: "is that electric?"

[@grazz7865]

I love it😂😂😂

[@margaretanderson2547]

At some point it will be just to costly to ship goods through California ports.

[@diecast164andmore9]

There's an EASY solution to this right NOW. Stop delivery to California today 🙂

[@vernonbowling5136]

Stop moving anything in or out of California by truck.

[@tomsherwood4650]

I can see it now. All the trucks stop in Nevada and electric rigs hook up to the trailers to continue into California. Thus increasing the costs of transport there huge amounts but Californians are all rich and don't mind paying alot more for everything! ☺

[@makeitpay8241]

where are they going to park 50,000 trailers?

[@ButtmanAtHeart]

All this is going to is sky rocket the cost of goods of the people in my state. Great job newsome great job

[@donmunro144]

Just throw California out of the USA. Let them fend for themselves.

[@missingno81]

Sure, CA just provides the US with 30% of revenue that it doesn’t want.

[@brucemaher7621]

Get the government to sign a peace of paper saying that if electric trucks don’t work than the government WILL PAY FOR LOSSES...

[@davidneal5979]

Problem with that is that we would be paying for the losses since the government runs on our money.

[@brucemaher7621]

@@davidneal5979 True that... they win any way it goes...

[@haroldbenton979]

The Tesla semi weighs 3 tons more as a daycab than a standard OTR sleeper truck. It can't even make it over Donner Pass and back fully loaded on a single charge. Yet California wants to put 600k on the road.

[@generalbiochemistryi8498]

And yet they keep voting Democrat. You would think they would learn.

[@2fuzy]

Except they ran over donner from reno all the time

[@bobbo9058]

Democrats are whacked out .

[@2fuzy]

@patheticyoutube there was not a lot of them i think it was only two but they ran from reno to Freemont all the time

[@1982nsu]

The state of California has become a hostile work environment. The private sector simply needs to up and leave.

[@MrBonediver]

Truckers need to just dump their loads at the state line, let Newsome figure out how to do the rest!!!!

[@adamwolf4041]

STOP moving any freight in or out of California!

[@jameswyatt2739]

Can we push California into the sea. Think anyone would notice or would be peaceful. Green trucks would cost America more than biden by himself

[@MSDOGS1976]

Agree or boot them out of the USA.

[@Forzn7tu]

As a Californian we are fed up with this law maker making decisions for us. We already pay so much for absolutely everything. At this point this is abuse. We can’t afford it anymore. We don’t EV and we are tired of everything thinking we need at. If California collectively stops paying tax the rest of 49 states would file bankruptcy. We are done paying everyone’s bills.

[@roberthicks7021]

Only if Florida goes first.

[@MarekKolenda-cr8vr]

California state officials corrupt wants eliminate business competition because get paid for this

[@MarekKolenda-cr8vr]

@@Forzn7tuState officials corrupt get paid to eliminate business competition in trucking industry

[@gobysky]

A slow strangulation of the trucking industry in California will lead to all kinds of supply line shortages. When they can’t get the food they need maybe they will wake up and vote these idiots out of office. If they’re not smart enough to do so, let them go hungry.

[@gc1172]

Stay clear of CA for any loads. Three days and no food in stores.

[@dockilljoy9017]

Remove the port of goods from California and open in other states. California will collapse without the port that brings almost 100% of American goods to the US.

[@dfestoon]

Let California get their goods transported on their own. Just like the sanctuary city deal, let them eat what they sow. See how quickly they come to the realization that it won’t work.

[@TruthFiction]

The problem you apparently lack awareness of is that the vast majority of goods delivered to CA from Asia are being shipped through to the rest of the states. If you remove CA then you are simply removing access to the goods the rest of the country is buying.

[@dfestoon]

I am aware. How long do you think things could stack up in California ? There are other ports along the coast that could handle the freight. California is not the be all end all, they don’t control the rest of the US, nor should they.

[@jgesselberty]

If electric vehicles were as great as politicians think they are, the industry would be converting on their own, without legislation.

[@DCBChump]

Exactly.

[@squirts1]

The industry is converting on their own.... basically every industry is converting to electric.

[@julesleg]

And ALL politicians would be REQUIRED to drive one.

[@kharnthebetrayer1575]

@@squirts1and yet not 1 long haul Semi available, and the Tesla and Peterbuilt have a joke of a range .

[@squirts1]

@@kharnthebetrayer1575 Tesla semi range is 500 miles. Charges in 30 minutes. Long haul drivers are only permitted to drive roughly 700 miles in a day anyway... they definitely stop for bathroom, food, rest breaks. Pepsi drives the Tesla semi 450 mile routes one way every day. Look up the list of companies with contracts for Tesla semi. Each of those contracts comes with charging infrastructure.

[@berry1669]

Politicians live on a different Planet, all they know is their book and theory

[@geoffdevore6321]

People , not just truckers, but everyone needs to stand up to California!!

[@pathtopeaceministry6777]

It isn’t about pollution or caring about people it’s about under the table pocket lining

[@sinstyles666]

they have rolling blackouts during the summer in california how exactly do they plan to even charge the trucks in the first place

[@MrJayrock620]

For a state that already has roaming black or brown outs during a heatwave, I’m not sure they understand how electricity works. Or for that matter how stuff actually gets to stores.

[@j.r5801]

He made all the correct points

[@ronhamm]

Don’t stop it. Let people begin starving and watch how fast changes happen!

[@Gordys_Garden]

I'd like to see Walmart pull out of California if they can't get trucks in

[@muffs55mercury61]

That just might happen. If they have to invest all this money into an electric fleet which would need to be frequently shut down for recharging they would be losing money going into CA.

[@USA__WILL]

A lot of their merchandise comes from overseas. The port in Los Angeles is their main source of delivery so odds are all these companies will have to abide by the regulations whether they like it or not. Unless they decide to start picking up loads all the way in Washington

[@marks2254]

I’m a Californian and find our governor and his legislature to be without the tools to solve the simplest problem. They are ideal driven, not science driven. Embarrassing.

[@thomasmccarthy8625]

Insane,,,,just look at the state of California,,that should raise alot of red flags,,they can't keep the lights on now,,can't imagine trying to charge all the ev trucks and cars

[@sloth9669]

Good stop delivering there and triple the price. They will see they made a mistake.

[@shanenitzsche463]

or don't deliver to california at all !!!!

[@mattmoeller1105]

How about just letting California become its own country that governs itself?

[@donnafisk2014]

Let them for sure,but, evil has no boundaries, look at newsom, polossi,

[@johnhudelson2652]

Hey, that's a great idea. Just think - no more proposition 65's to clutter articles for online shopping, and no more undesirable characters in Congress like Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Eric Swalwell. and Dianne Feinstein.

[@larrysmith8635]

Companies and all Drivers should refuse to deliver into that horrible place

[@gvjester]

Well said, Dagen, very well said!!

[@jamebrooke894]

JUST DON'T DELIVER TO CALIFORNIA AND DO NOT PICK UP LOADS FROM THERE.

[@durgan5668]

Going to be difficult to fund their Utopia pipe dreams when the ports can't move cargo inland.

[@111jacare]

Bringing the rail into the port will not help matters. The ports, from what I know, are short on space at this time, so even if they assemble a 100 wagon train in the port area, the rail has not got the capacity to be moving the volume of containers that shipping will be bringing.

[@RobertCWarwick]

I'm for it,no truck enter California starting 2024

[@johnmadsen37]

They do not have the existing coal backed power grid to even support the load on it.

[@bofkaycee1970]

Answer Subcontract the work with out of state companies who don’t register vehicles in California.

[@bondjovi4595]

Before you start banning gasoline, diesel You need to have an efuel alternative available at the pumps.

[@Wolfcamp555]

Why?

[@blintzkreig1638]

@@Wolfcamp555 Now why do you think? If you do think that is.

[@TRmPisthebestEver]

​@@Wolfcamp555How you going to get food John 😂 are you an outdoorsman? Can you feed yourself off the land?😂👖🤡

[@jamesstrawn6087]

And to do that for semis you need a LOT.

[@jeffreygunn3530]

@@TRmPisthebestEver He orders takeout 🙃

[@independentfreethinkeroutl2176]

I DRIVE A SEMI TRUCK AND WERE ONLY ALLOWED TO WORK 70 HOURS A WEEK AND NOW WERE BAIRLY MAKING TO THE NEXT PAYCHECK IN CALIFORNIA... I HAVE 10 YEARS LEFT ON A 30 YEAR MORGAGE !! EVERY YEAR THESE SOB CRIMINALS KEEP TAKING MORE AND MORE INCLUDING FORCING THE COST TO LIVE RISE UP EVERY YEAR

[@johnrambo6314]

So your saying California should implement social regulations on housing? That’s socialism friend. Don’t you conservatives like capitalism?

[@blintzkreig1638]

@@johnrambo6314 No genius, they need to get real on their policies.

[@generalbiochemistryi8498]

@@johnrambo6314 NO. He is saying Democrats are stupid and are destroying what was once a great state. He is saying VOTE REPUBLICAN!

[@2fuzy]

Just how is this taking from you as a driver ?

[@1982nsu]

@@2fuzy The state of California has become a hostile work environment. The private sector simply needs to up and leave.

[@bradriney919]

Truckers, stop delivering to the CA capital.

[@user-rd8vp6nq8b]

Everybody take your trucking companies out of California

[@DesertScorpionKSA]

Everything will cost even more in California in the future. More families will move out and more homeless will move in.

[@choicemakings]

CA already has the worst regulations on trucks.. That whole state has gone to the dogs.

[@gregjames3001]

They're also just as voracious towards busses & airplanes

[@rogerbec5766]

Close shop in San Francisco and open a major water port in Baja California. They will be glad to get the business.

[@gdt5430]

Problem is simply solved, in 2036 all truckers drop their CA loads at the State Line and let the idiots in Sacramento figure out how to get it to where they need it.

[@FUBARandU]

If this happens, prices are going to skyrocket.

[@DCBChump]

Too late.

[@johnbartonsr5875]

Months along shut down of deliveries in California should bring some attention to this issue.

[@frotobaggins7169]

Look in to the energy consumption of an all electric truck stop.

[@gametimedaily7740]

The government doesn’t get to tell us what kind of trucks we drive!

[@billywoodruff7361]

They really are not going to have any business in cali here soon