{"id":42702,"date":"2019-01-14T05:49:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T10:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42702"},"modified":"2019-01-14T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T10:50:13","slug":"grocery-stores-would-run-out-of-food-in-3-days-if-long-haul-truckers-stopped-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42702","title":{"rendered":"Grocery stores would run out of food in 3 days if long-haul truckers stopped working"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"post-headline-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"post-headline \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/grocery-stores-hospitals-gas-stations-would-suffer-without-truckers-2019-1\">Grocery stores would run out of food in 3 days if long-haul truckers stopped working<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure id=\"img-958087\" class=\"figure image-figure-image postload\" data-type=\"img\" data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5c268fee630d9b375421f1bd-750-563.jpg\" sizes=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5c268fee630d9b375421f1bd-160-120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5c268fee630d9b375421f1bd-320-240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5c268fee630d9b375421f1bd-480-360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5c268fee630d9b375421f1bd-640-480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5c268fee630d9b375421f1bd-750-563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5c268fee630d9b375421f1bd-960-720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5c268fee630d9b375421f1bd-1136-852.jpg 1136w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5c268fee630d9b375421f1bd-1334-1001.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/amp.businessinsider.com\/images\/5c268fee630d9b375421f1bd-1536-1152.jpg 1536w\" alt=\"soda supermarket grocery store\" \/><figcaption class=\"image-caption\" data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\">Your favorite products wouldn&#8217;t be available for too long if truckers stopped working.<\/figcaption><span class=\"image-source-caption \"><span class=\"image-source\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\">AP Photo\/Matt Rourke<\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"l-content\" class=\"is-right-rail\" data-track-page-area=\"Post\" data-post-content=\"\">\n<section class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<article>\n<section class=\"post-content typography \" data-track-content=\"\" data-post-type=\"post\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<ul class=\"summary-list \">\n<li>Trucking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trucking.org\/News_and_Information_Reports.aspx\">moves 71% of the freight in the United States<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the basic functions of society wouldn&#8217;t be effective if truckers were to stop working.<\/li>\n<li>And naturally, your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/amazon-prime\">Amazon Prime<\/a> packages would be delayed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div data-piano-inline-content-wrapper=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">Trucking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trucking.org\/News_and_Information_Reports.aspx\">moves 71% of the freight in the United States<\/a>. And if it were to suddenly cease, the effects would be more drastic than you might expect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/28\/americas\/brazil-truck-strike-fuel\/index.html\">In May 2018,<\/a> truck drivers in Brazil went on strike for a week, and it &#8220;paralyzed&#8221; the country in unexpected ways. As gas stations ran out of fuel, for instance, public transit halted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Without trucking, we would be naked, starving, and homeless,&#8221; Mike Robbins, a longtime trucker and leader of trucker strike group Black Smoke Matters, told Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trucking.org\/ATA%20Docs\/What%20We%20Do\/Image%20and%20Outreach%20Programs\/When%20Trucks%20Stop%20America%20Stops.pdf\">A study<\/a> by the American Trucking Associations outlined what would happen if truckers were to stop working. The effects would hit hospitals, gas stations, ATMs, grocery stores, and even your garbage can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And, of course, your Amazon Prime packages would be delayed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Within the first day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Basic medical supplies, like syringes and catheters, would be at risk of running out. Medication for cancer patients that use radiopharmacuticals, which only have a life span of a few hours, would expire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/28\/americas\/brazil-truck-strike-fuel\/index.html\">the 2018 truck strike<\/a> in Brazil, a lack of medical supplies was a key choke point for the country. Government security forces escorted trucks with supplies to hospitals and doubled fines against striking truckers who were carrying medical cargo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">Mail and package delivery could stop if drivers in last-mile, as well as long-haul truck drivers, were to stop working.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grocery stores would run out of food in 3 days if long-haul truckers stopped working Your favorite products wouldn&#8217;t be available for too long if truckers stopped working.AP Photo\/Matt Rourke Trucking moves 71% of the freight in the United States. Most of the basic functions of society wouldn&#8217;t be effective if truckers were to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9218,5211,23928,3237,10303],"class_list":["post-42702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-business-insider","tag-grocery-stores","tag-rachel-premack","tag-supply-chains","tag-trucking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42703,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42702\/revisions\/42703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}