National Guard has people and trucks. Load up trucks and drive them, drop off and unload stuff. Maybe the National Guard can even make some money off of it.
Isn't everyone blaming car shortages, etc. on the lack of chips due to factories in third world countries closing down due to the pandemic?
OK, this is just weird. You need a Class A license to drive a Semi, you can't just grab any random National Guard member. There isn't a shortage of trucks, and the trucks that National Guard has aren't configured for freight.
This before we get into the concept that the National Guard is not comprised of full time Guardsmen - they are people with real jobs, so you try to plug one hole and create another one.
The chip issue isn't that simple, comes down to some poor planning and basic short term greed by the car companies. TSMC will run their fabs flat out, they only have so many wafer starts they can run. Cars, microwaves, etc.. have a lot of low cost low margin chips that do things like control the power mirrors/etc... the companies that design them and order them from TSMC are working on super low margins, so they don't carry a bunch of loose stock, they have a designed order flow with TSMC or Samsung.
When the pandemic hit and car sales hit the floor, the car companies stopped their orders, so the chip companies did the same. TSMC said "fine" and reallocated wafer starts to companies like Nvidia and Qualcomm that buy higher margin parts. Now the suppliers of the car companies have to get back into the wafer lines, and even if TSMC just put them at the front of the queue, the process from wafer start to packaged parts is weeks. The car companies let their pipeline go dry, it's their own fault.
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