After dumping anywhere from several inches to even a foot or two of blow in the region late Saturday night to throughout Sunday , people such as Wes Summer of Carolina Fresh Sales LLC in Raleigh , NC say moving produce was a challenge the next day .
“ It was the typical stuff — trucks were shut down and had to pull over or could n’t run or they could n’t get out of the 1000 or because their drivers could not get to their M to pluck up the trucks , ” says Summer , who also owns Freedom Freight & Logistics , a DoT and third - party logistics company . “ It slow down everything down for a span of days and motortruck could n’t deliver . ”
tempest affects on clientsAt the same time , Summer notes that not all client were open to receive goods either . “ Some of our folks did n’t give up either because the snow touch them in such a fashion that they could n’t obtain trucks or had to receive them on a check cornerstone , ” he adds .
All told , it result to a minor back up in moving product . “ With customer , when you ca n’t transport to their stores , eating house or schools for a day and a half , then your product backs up and your orders slow down , ” he says . “ And when you reorder like they did today or will tomorrow , or else of acquire a full load , they ’ll get a ¾ or one-half load because they did n’t ship for two day . They do n’t need as much production because it ’s sitting in the warehouse . ”
West Coast travel challengesMeanwhile Summer , who moves intersection in from California , Idaho and Arizona , say that while it was challenging to get trucks through neighboring states , particularly Tennessee and North Carolina , they did make it through .
Over at Bailey Farms Inc. in Oxford , NC , Randy Bailey consort that the storm was significant and other for the arena . And he too noted subsequent trucking challenges .
“ Our business impacts were mostly receive truck out of the storm arena on Saturday before it run into to minimize the effects on our customers who were not in the storm ’s path , ” says Bailey . “ Then on Monday we had to control on a skeleton crowd to process edict and pack because as we all know ‘ produce never stops . ’ ”
He also added that there were no crop impacts from the tempest .
For more information : Wes SummerCarolina Fresh Sales LLCTel : +1 ( 919 ) 349 - 8163[email protected ]
Randy BaileyBailey FarmsTel : +1 ( 919 ) 690 - 1524[email protected]http://baileyfarmsinc.com/
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