So, been reading about the possible railroad worker strike starting Friday, and while I’ve got some essentials stockpiled, just wondering if anyone here with logistics knowledge knows what goods will be most impacted if this strike happens?
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Literally everything. People don’t understand how much is moved by rail. I worked at a trans loading sugar plant years ago. Each railcar had 200-250k pounds of sugar. That was 4-5 tractor trailer loads per car. Every night, the train would come past and pick up our empty cars and drop off full ones. Without daily deliveries, we would have been out of sugar in less than a week. We were sending anywhere from 4-10 tractor trailer loads per day to Quaker Oats, Hershey, Pepsi, etc. Here’s how quick this snowballs from just that one business. Once they’re out of sugar, that is 30+ tractor trailer loads per day not going out. All those truck drivers are now out of work. Quaker Oats, Hershey, Pepsi, etc. rely on daily deliveries and would shutdown in a week as well. Now all the deliveries from those plants to stores aren’t going out. Now all those truck drivers are out of work. The stores rely on daily deliveries and now the shelves start emptying out without being replenished. This is the snowball from one location and one product not having the trains running. Get anything you don’t want to run out of now.