Commentary The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are brimming with activity, and the 900,000 Southern California workers related to that activity are feeling it. Truck drivers hired by one company are now making $25 per hour rather than the $18 per hour they were making before the pandemic—a 40% increase in just 18 months. Assuming a 40-hour work week and 50 weeks of work per year—that truck driver’s annual pay went from $36,000 a year before the pandemic to $50,000 a year now. Railroad companies, the longshoremen (the union workers at the docks), the warehouse workers, and many others are all feeling the extra activity. Across the US, some 2.98 million jobs are related to the activity at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, otherwise knowns as the San Pedro Ports Complex. The ports are owned by the cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles and …