As supply chain issues continue to beset the promotional products market and other industries, a new survey suggests that Americans expect action from elected officials to help fix the problems.

The Consumer Brand Association, which polled residents in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and New Hampshire, found that “the supply chain is going to be a major issue with voters in the 2022 midterm election — and that they expect their elected officials will act on solutions to prevent the next supply chain crisis.”

For example, nine in 10 respondents feel it is important to expand trucking capacity next year to meet supply chain demands. Some eight in 10 expect their senators to take action to improve the trucking situation.

Top tactics that respondents supported included creating an “air traffic control” to match empty trucks with available loads and offering hours of service flexibility to truck drivers.

Other strategies consumers generally supported were allowing reasonable increases in truck weight limits, government funding for truck driver recruitment and training, and government funding to accelerate production of new trucks.

“Support for solutions to increase trucking capacity are not in the hands of consumers or entirely up to private industry,” the study said. “There is a critical role for elected leaders to play.”

The Consumer Brand Association is an organization that represents leading food and beverage, household, and personal care companies. They include Procter and Gamble, General Mills, Hostess, Campbell Soup, ConAgra, Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s and Clorox.

The Biden Administration has taken steps to mitigate supply chain bottlenecks in the U.S., but problems due to port congestion, lack of truckers and other issues remain.

In the promo industry, supply chain problems like labor shortages, port logjams here and abroad, factory shutdowns, delays in importing, and more expensive shipping and domestic transportation costs have fueled issues like inventory shortages, longer production times and higher product prices.