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This is one of those nonsense fact checks that they roll out when something is true but people who love government interventionism wish wasn't. Their conclusions don't make any sense.

They have two points: The contractor ban is currently under injunction in court so why would that affect anyone's behavior. Well, but people do change their behavior when something becomes a legal grey area. And being an owner-operator in CA is not clearly legal anymore, so why risk it? If you're a company that wants to do shipping in CA, does your plan include using owner-operators now? It takes a high level of asinine pollyanna-ism to not be able to think for one second why this might have a substantial effect on shippers.

The second point, that the "truck ban" is not at fault is also total nonsense. First they say "oh the law has been in effect since 2008" well according to their own link, [1] it is loaded with ramp-ups in the emmissions requirements. As time passes the requirements increase. As of now nearly all of the most stringent requirements are in place.

So besides citing the law which doesnt make much of a case for their argument, they then quote a partisan who loves the law to say there's no evidence that this law is affecting anything.

And then they take this pile of nonsense to claim it is mostly false, ending with this non-sequitur: "The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread layoffs and factory closures that haven’t yet bounced back to meet the surging consumer demand. "

The ports are full of fucking containers you fucking nitwits! Full of containers filled by workers working at factories! How could this have any bearing on the port issue?

Politifact is a total joke. They're clearly being paid to give cover to whatever their paymasters want.

[1] https://www.buswestpreowned.com/carb-truck-bus-rule#:~:text=....