Why the Supply Chain Crisis Is About to Get Much Worse by Leah Barkoukis for Town Hall
The Biden administration on Thursday announced the deadline for his private employer vaccine mandate, raising serious questions about how the rule will exacerbate the supply chain crisis.
According to RealClearPolitics’ Tom Bevan, there is no exemption for the trucking industry and there will likely be drivers who quit over the mandate.
“So all the biggest trucking companies in America – who already face major driver shortages – will see a % of their workforce quit. Supply chain crisis is going to get much worse – very soon,” he warned.
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Bevan noted that a significant percentage of drivers are unvaccinated, which doesn’t make much of a difference given “the very nature of the job is iconoclastic: they spend most of the day alone in the cab of a truck, having very little interaction with other people.”
This also means their risk of transmission is lower than other occupations, he said.
More (1) A large percentage of truckers are not vaxxed. The very nature of the job is iconoclastic: they spend most of the day alone in the cab of a truck, having very little interaction with other people.
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) November 4, 2021
More (2) So they are much lower risk for transmission than, say office workers or healthcare workers. But there is no group in America that is more vital to the function of the economy. If they stop driving, EVERYTHING stops.
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) November 4, 2021
Bevan wasn’t the only one to sound the alarm, however.
Jon Sampson, executive director at the American Trucking Association, warned the House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday about how the supply chain will be affected by the mandate amid a shortage of drivers.
“The trucking industry is not anti-vaccination, we are anti-supply chain inefficiency,” he said. “A lot of larger truck lines have drivers with vaccine hesitancy.”
