of long beach is just experimenting now with around the clock operations. >> what this is a wake-up call for everyone in the industry to realize you can't operate in. >> reporter: the goal, with the next link of supply chains, moving containers out of the port. >> every day, five, six hours in the harbor. you have to wait like six hours. >> reporter: six hours? >> i was in there for nine hours. >> reporter: nine showers reuben ponce lost because he could have been delivering merchandise. >> i can't do the rounds. >> reporter: national data says there's a truck driver shortage, but ponce says the problem is even more basic than that. >> the port is backed up, us, the truckers are backed up, everyone's backed up. it's a big problem. >> reporter: so it's like a chain reaction then. >> exactly. exactly. >> reporter: delayed trucks means delays at warehouses like canton food company in los angeles. >> i have about eight containers