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like this, our cat net for the cable news and talk radio, blame game, conservative commentator john laughlin, tweets that part of the california port situation is caused by a ban, which says all trucks must be 2011 or newer. and a new law called a b 5 prohibits owner operators, non union truckers are not investing in new trucks because law that makes them illegal in 2035. they must be electric trucks which do not exist. patrick fact check that for us and is politics contributing to the bottleneck? yes, so that whole bunch of legislations been misinterpreted. all right, so let's talk 1st about the, the trucks and plants 96 percent of trucks these days are in compliance. so right off the bat, that's the case. a b 5 is not in effect right now. so that's a lot of ours companies that are hired independent contractors to, to classify them as employees. and the 2035 standard has not been adopted yet. so you do not need to worry about that right now. it's still has to go through a whole bunch of regulatory bodies. it's got to be studied and so none of that is impacting what's happening right now in