Anyone else seeing reefer loads drying up?

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  1. Cat sdp

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    Was on cnn ...tv
     
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  3. 88 Alpha

    88 Alpha Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I'll assume those growers are probably fairing better right now. Takes longer to grow them without the 'roids.

    Most of the birds we haul are not purchased directly by the end consumer. Most of ours are purchased at restaurant level. From what I understand, Publix only sells one line of our chicken and Walmart doesn't carry any of it.
     
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  4. Lonestar87

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    I read a similar one. It was talking about dairy farmers dumping half their milk and veggie farmers plowing 80% of their crop back into the fields because they couldn’t sell it. Between school closings, restaurant business being down upwards of 80%, and hospitals not accepting non Covid-19 patients, they don’t have a market for it. You’d think they would find a way to dehydrate all of that instead of letting it go to waste, but what do I know.
     
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  5. Big Boyz

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    Its returned to regular hit or miss out here. However I agree with the earlier post that you will see another run on stores. Produce will be the next big demand.
     
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    Warehouses aren't getting replenished, once the stores start running out of products and the warehouses cant replenish them, this will set of another panic buying of...... u guessed it toilet paper, round 2 of Panic Buyers VS Toilet Paper
     
  7. Iwegian

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    I haul dedicated to Walmart, Kroger, Aldi's, Sigma, ect. We have been running against our 70 hr clock for the last month.....finally getting back to our "normal". ....but I don't know what next week is bringing. Sorry for the edit
    I haul all meat products.....mostly poultry.
     
  8. Capacity

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    Hauled many ice cream loads out of Breyers in Henderson.
    They closed in August.
     
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    Why would breyers close.
    Couldn't possibly be there 8 dollar pints
    Of ice cream.
    Four times higher than anybody else.
     
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  11. LoneRanger

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    Not sure why reefer rates are drying up stores are empty here in Vegas. Well at least the ones I visit.
     
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