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“California’s shipping backlog is, in part, caused by a “California Truck Ban which says all trucks must be 2011 or newer and a law called AB 5 which prohibits Owner Operators.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: The shipping pileup at California’s ports is part of a worldwide supply chain crisis exacerbated by the pandemic and a lack of supplies, equipment and workers, not the state’s rules and regulations on trucking