For truckers like Mateo Carrera, freight bottlenecks mean a shortage of trailers, pre-dawn drives and long waits at rail and container yards.
scrambling to get goods across the Pacific Ocean and into stores. That rush has dissipated as consumer shopping has shifted this year, with more spending going to travel and other services, and the shipping volumes have started receding at seaports.
“The truckers have a saying here that there’s bad days and there’s worse days,” Mr. Carrera said as his truck crawled in a line of big rigs waiting to get into a rail yard. Many of the warehouses are stuffed with inventories after goods like patio furniture and spring apparel arrived too late for the seasonal sales cycles.
BNSF is so overrun it has placed timber across two tracks so containers can be stored and sorted there. “We have never at this facility ever covered up tracks to put boxes stacked upon,” said Scott Hernandez, assistant vice president for intermodal strategy and innovation at BNSF. Mr. Carrera arrived at the container yard that held the Michaels box at about 6:45 a.m. His was the seventh truck in line when the yard opened. But because his box was buried at the bottom of a pile, it was 9:30 a.m. before a forklift could reach the container and load it onto his chassis.
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