It's not just Toro. Every manufacturer is struggling getting their equipment built, parts made and getting supplies. We import some product in China. It comes in a container. In the past we paid about $500 dock fee. Earlier this year the dock fee went to $2500. Last month the dock fee rose to $25,000....yes $25,000. A hell of a price for a container with only $40,000 worth of goods in it. And yes that will have to get passed on..
So piracy is alive & well in the USA
Did you get any reason for those increases ?
I would be having words to my politicans if they did it to me .
Port Botany put the lift rate up from $1200 to $ 1500 a while back .
This of course caused a knee jerk massive traffic jam with the extra trucks queing up to ensure they were there for the first lift
So the price rise backfired and it ended up going back to $ 1000.
Last thing I heard they are trying to get a new pricing structure through which will be 2 lifts for the first $ 2000 then $ 1500 per lift there after + $ 5000 per day after the first 12 hours for storeage.
The problem is sleaze bag importers deliberately miss their lift then let the box sit for 5 days till it goes into off site bond storeage.
They then go broke , the owner claims insurance and then buys back the contents at the bond forfeit auctions for 1/4 of the value of the goods .
When this happens the dock does not get their steverdorage fees but the truck drivers do get paid .
