The docks are shutting down. You're listening to Motley Fool Money.

I'm Ricky Mollie. I'm Ricky Mulvey joined today by Motley Full analyst David Meyer.

David is not on strike.

He's showing up to work today.

Appreciate you being here.

Thanks for joining us on Motley Full Money. Definitely not on strike today.

Doc workers though on ports across the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico have

stopped work. These are members of the International Longshoremen's Association.

David, they want a few things. They want more pay. They want better benefits like

employer contributions to retirement, better health care plans. And one biggiegie and that is to stop advanced

automation from taking jobs. If you say why should I care about the International

Longshoremen Association well it's because this stoppage is good to affect more than half of U.S. imports,

J.P. Morgan analysts expect this strike to cost about $4 billion per day. That's a good place to start. This is a temporary

disruption but which companies are going to be feeling the impact from this.

Yeah, it's a good question to start off.

Look, the obvious one is trucking companies.

And in fact, the stocks of companies

like Old Dominion Freight Lines,

J.B. Hunt Transportation, to name a few. They were off a little more this morning,

but are down 1 to 2 percent as we tape this. Look, that makes sense, right? Trucks are one way that those shipping containers get from the

ports and move around the country and a prolonged strike would see their trucks not moving at the same

speed that they once were and when those

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