The California Truckers Association is warning that 70,000 independent truck owner-operators will be taken off the roads of California later this week as a draconian new law, “AB-5” kicks in: (emphasis ours)
In addition to the direct impact on California’s 70,000 owner-operators who have seven days to cease long-standing independent businesses, the impact of taking tens of thousands of truck drivers off the road will have devastating repercussions on an already fragile supply chain, increasing costs and worsening runaway inflation.
The new law, passed and signed by Democrats, essentially outlaws independent contractors from operating transport trucks in the state of California. When it goes into effect later this week — after the US Supreme Court refused to intervene last week — California will be hit with a “truckpocalypse” shutdown of transportation capacity.
While some transportation companies maintain full-time employees to operate long haul rigs, many drivers are “owner-operators” who own their own trucks and who pick up contract jobs from the hundreds of shipping and transport companies that operate in California. These owner-operators pay their own taxes, buy their own health insurance and cover their own fuel costs. California Democrats, however, think that independent freedom for truckers should be criminalized, since they want all drivers to be union workers in corrupt union organizations that Democrats routinely use for money laundering operations (dems vote to award public money to the unions, and the unions agree to kick back campaign donations to Democrats).
So they’ve outlawed independent contractors in the trucking industry. The new law goes into effect this week and is expected to cause widespread logjams, cost increases and delays to transportation across America. Say hello to accelerated food inflation…
Catastrophic collapse of trucking and transportation in California
As FreightWaves.com reports, the implications of this law will be nothing short of catastrophic for transportation infrastructure in and out of California:
Matt Schrap, the CEO of the Harbor Trucking Association, which represents drayage companies, issued a brief but harsh statement in response to the high court’s decision.
“It is extremely unfortunate that this Court couldn’t see through their own political agenda to identify the obvious preemption that exists under the F4A,” he wrote in an email to FreightWaves. “This ruling will have far reaching impacts that will upend the industry as we know it. Tens of thousands of truck drivers will be driven out of established business relationships within a week. No doubt this will further stress the supply chain.”
Not only do transport trucks carry food and consumer goods in and out of California, they routinely distribute ocean freight containers from California ports to inland destinations. The containers move from ships to trucks, and those trucks take them to retail distribution hubs or domestic manufacturers for offloading.
Under California’s new AB5 law, the logistics challenge of receiving good carried by road are going to be a nightmare. Added to this is the fact that Union Pacific railroad is already slashing the number of rail cars it carries for existing customers (such as CF Industries, a fertilizer manufacturer), which means railroads have no excess capacity to pick up the slack from trucking.
America’s logistics infrastructure is crumbling. And with diesel engine oil additives in short supply and expected to run out in about 7 weeks, a huge question looms over America: How will food, coal, spare parts and consumer goods get delivered anywhere? If the truckers are blocked from California’s highways, and diesel engine oil is running out, and railroads are slashing rail cars, and diesel fuel itself is running out in some areas, the scenario for the second half of 2022 doesn’t look very rosy at this point.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
States rights, two edged sword. I’ll gladly take my produce from Mexico.
Time to declare war on California.
sounds like a good idea.
Thats Commiefornia
Unions have owned the Democrat party for decades. Now the union leadership will reap the return on their investment. It’s the American way.
You mean Democrats have owned the unions. They’re nithing but a money kaundering arm of the party.
Reason number 3,627 why Texas should just secede from this crumbling mess.
This is a bad law, no doubt, but it doesn’t affect owner/operators who run under their own authority. It affects owners who are leased to motor carriers.
Dummy over 85% of owner operators are lease contractors to somebody and they far out number operators with their own authority.you’re probably one of the ones that think if lease operators are gone there will be more freight for you.same thinking of the demorats that are ruining our country.the same thinking as the mega carriers,if the little guys are gone more for them.a lot of those assholes forgot where they came from.they too were once the little guy.how soon they forget and greed takes over.
Florida ports are open and we love Independent Truckers. We will gladly take all the business that California has outlawed. Our Hovernor has already announced this, earlier this year.
Governor. Sorry about the typo.
Along with EVERY subcontracted worker in the state who will lose their jobs as current held.
In my opinion trucking or any type of transportation must be done by,, Citizens’’ only – same to Brokers and dispatchers .
Many truck company’s expedite and dispatch company’s are operated from Foreign country , they even send there drivers to operate trucks and cargo vans . They also provide fake address . While us US resident drivers can’t get no cargo -stop work visas , sTransportation for Citizen’s only -problem will be Fixed .
Are you Californians done voting for democrats NOW?
There are many Patriots here in California who Republican. Problem is, the voting system is rigged here. . . .but to answer your question, yes many OTHER people in Ca are tired of voting Dumb-O-crat.
name the democrats and in what state that passed this
All the Democrats. State of California Only.
But some D’s in Congress are trying to do the same thing federally too.
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assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez
AB 5 was introduced by California assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez and endorsed by Governor Gavin Newsom. It was approved by the California State Senate 29–11 on a party-line vote, by the Assembly 56–15, and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 18, 2019. It took effect January 1, 2020.
This whole article is just propaganda by the trucking companies who have been scamming their “lease operators” for years!
If the company takes a financial loss, they make up for it by shorting the lease operators on miles but still demanding their lease payment for the truck, but the. The drivers are not allowed to find their own loads to make up the difference.
It’s a capitalist scam by the corporations to profit of the working man.
It’s time we put the RED back in red neck!
You are confusing O/O’s that lease their equipment TO a Californian Carrier and haul freight under that Carrier’s authorities vs Individuals that Lease Equipment FROM an established Carrier.(AKA Lease/Rent to OWN)
HE WE GO AGAIN THE SACRAMENTO DEMOCRATS HAVE DONE IT AGAIN . SACRAMENTO IS JUST NOT HAPPY UNLESS THERE. TAKING JOBS AWAY FROM CALIFORNIANS AND HAVNG COMPANIES LEAVING CALIFORNIA. JUST ANOTHER REASON TO STOP VOTING FOR THESE SACRAMENTO DEMOCRATS AND THAT GOES ALSO FOR NEWSOM . CALIFORNIA HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS AND NOW WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE. WHEN ARE CALIFORNIANS GOING TO RELIEZE THAT THE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS ARE DESTROYING THIS STATE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM AND NEWSOM IS NOT HELPING US CALIFORNIANS AT ALL HE PROVED THAT BY NOT DOING ANYTHING AT ALL WITH THE GAS TAX. BUT NEWSOM AND THE DEMOCRATS WILL SEND THOSE CHECKS OUT IN MID TO LATE OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER TO BY YOUR VOTE FOR THE NOVEMBER ELECTION THATS WHY THE DIDN’T WANT TO DO ANYTHING EARLIER . THEY WANT TO BUY YOUR. VOTE SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS ARE ALL A BUNCH OF CRIMINALS DISGUISED AS POLITICIANS
Spot on! When the criminals are making the laws, you know you’ve got a problem. We’ve had that problem for a long time here in Crapifornia.
That’s fine, California can refund my IFTA.
Oh wait, isn’t there a law, they can’t stop people from making a living either.?
But, the people in CA let those that be, run amuck.
I’m eagerly awaiting the day when someone nukes SacraDemento and San Franfeces. Crapifornia’s two sister Crapital northern cities are and have always been run by Vatican Jesuit Mafia. They need to be wiped off the map to rid our once beautiful state of the demonic vermin at the head offices. Make sure to add the DC “representatives and leaders” to the bonfire and wear a double or triple mask or a quality gas mask to keep from breathing the putrid toxic waste smoke that would come from it.
If you all would read the law you would see how wrong your comments are. #1 It has nothing to do with unions.
SApoken lke a true Union hack!
Bad spelling day
Spoken like a TRUE Union hack!
I get that you hate democrats. Good for you. Now… WHAT WAS THE FUCKING STORY? Maybe you can scrape together 2 braincells and put out an article that actually says something other than “my wittle feelings are hurteded and I want to bitch my brains out about it! 😭”?
Regulations have come from big business. This is nothing new! It did not come from democratic law rather from the demolition of small businesses. Regulations grew from republican armed business growth shutting out those of little value to cities. Unions have always protected the wee ones. Life will go on. Wee ones will have jobs. Watch and see.
“Republican Armed” business convinced Gavin Newsom to enact these laws? You’re hilarious! LMAO you lefties still pimp big business as being a wholly owned subsidiary of the feckless and stupid Republican Party. Democrats the party of the little guy LMAO. I am a union craftsman whose jobs depend on oil refineries. Which party is it that vows to end fossil fuel usage and the oil/energy industry?
It’s idiocy not idiocracy. Idiocracy is a movie
One time they were threatening to deport illegal they were getting scared and running back across border it was hard then to get produce loaded on truck in California
We all know what is needed in this country and it is a Revolution!!!
WHO CARES? It’s KALIFORNISTAN!! Tell ALL truckers to stop trucking to California and watch how quickly they reverse this idiocracy. Let their shelves be empty. Show them the error of their votes.