MINNEAPOLIS – Car repair shops are beset with delays getting parts. At Jessie’s Auto Body in northeast Minneapolis, owner Jessie Villalobos said he has had one truck t sitting in his garage three months. “This one that we’re doing is a company vehicle that they needed. They needed to use it every day, you know, so they basically losing money,” Villalobos told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “They have to rent another truck to provide their service to people.” A survey by the newspaper found part of the problem is unloading delays at U.S. seaports. Then too there is a shortage of truckers to get parts to repair shops. Ed Peltier at White Bear Body Shop told the Star Tribune that some parts take two, three or four weeks and catalytic converters sometimes two months. One truck, he said, had been waiting five days for a new bumper, which was two days most before the supply chain crisis.
Slow time at car shops. Supply chain broken. Replacement and repair parts not being delivered.