Truck Broken - Blessing For Many

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  1. Don Alaska

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    Not really a garden thing, but it is food related. We were notified on Saturday that a refer unit on a semi coming up from the lower 48 had broken, so the store would not accept the delivery. They contacted a local small food pantry with which my wife is affiliated, and we had to help arrange distribution of tons of peaches, nectarines, grapes, plums, kales, lettuce, zucchini, etc. to the community. A lot of people received a lot of food, but apparently the poor trucker was stiffed on the run, so he had to take a loss. I guess the produce distributor didn't get paid either. Sad and happy at the same time.
     
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  2. John Brunner

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    There is a Walmart distribution center not far from me. I've seen them refuse deliveries of food (I forget the reason), and the driver would open the back and let folks take whatever they wished. Our local food pantry is hooked in to some of this stuff from Walmart and from other places. I've received calls to come get perishables if I wanted it, and I'm certainly not "in need." But if nobody takes it, it goes to waste.

    Regarding that trucker: I don't know how guys like that can afford to absorb those costs and stay in business.
     
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  3. Don Alaska

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    Wife works seasonally with the trucker's wife, so she knows he barely makes it financially. The trucker is conservative but his wife is an ultra-liberal Biden supporter, and her family is suffering greatly from the dramatic rise in fuel prices.
     
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    I fel sad for the trucker.
     
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