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| truckers a year after E.coli outbreak
More questions than answers for truckers a year after E.coli outbreak 9/14/07 Quote:
One year ago – on Sept. 14, 2006 – OOIDA member G.W. Monday was hauling pallets of bagged spinach on his truck when his load was rejected by a Kroger grocery store in Atlanta after a voluntary recall was issued because of an E.coli outbreak.
Outraged by Kroger officials’ refusal to accept the potentially contaminated product that they had ordered, Monday was stuck with the pallets on his truck, and called to ask the important question that Land Line Magazine and OOIDA are still asking one year later, “What’s a produce hauler to do?”
Monday eventually drove to a landfill in Atlanta and paid someone to dump the cases of bagged spinach because he had to head to his next destination. One year later Monday is still asking that same question. He said his goal is to make sure truckers aren’t left “holding the bag” again when a voluntary recall is issued and truckers have potentially contaminated product on their trailers.
“The government has to step in and do something – that’s the only way anything is going to get done here,” Monday told Land Line on Friday.
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