Eyes To See: -- The Reality Of A Trucker Strike

Eyes To See: -- The Reality Of A Trucker Strike

Posted By: Watchman
Date: Tuesday, 8-Oct-2013 10:09:51

…If you wonder what will happen if this goes off as planned, consider what one trucker had to say about the strike:
Close your eyes and clear your mind. Now open your eyes. Open a cupboard door. Look inside.
Everything in that cupboard was on a truck at some point in time. The cupboard was on a truck, either as a completed cabinet ready for installation or as the lumber and hardware needed to make that piece of furniture.
Look at the room where the cupboard is. Everything in that room was transported by a truck, including the building materials to build the house/apartment that the room is part of.
If You Own It – A Trucker brought it to where you could buy it. If you have a garden the seed for that garden came by truck. The only thing the truck didn’t deliver was the plot of ground.
If there are any soil amendments or fertilizers applied to that ground, guess what? It came by truck.
If the trucks stop the economy grinds to a halt, and with most stores using just-in-time inventory control there is nothing in back to put on those shelves when they empty until the next truck arrives.
A three day slowdown in deliveries means disruptions in the delivery chain for a month or more. A slowdown of this nature in mid-October means a lot of Christmas Inventory is going to be delayed, causing delays for the stuff scheduled for the following week, etc. clear into December…
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