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Some reasons for trucks to stop are given in the article.

The article is true and I have witnessed that first hand.

I am a major prepper and was prepared when Ike was coming my way. I didn’t have to go to a grocery store to prepare so I was not in the crush of people who rushed to stores. I did get ice the day before at a small grocery - I knew the big stores (Walmart, Kroger, HEB) would be out.

Every grocery store was cleaned out in two days and there was no gas left. I filled up three days before it hit so I had two cars full of gas.

There was no gas from Galveston through Houston through my town and 60 more miles north and east and west.

I was without power for five days and was comfortable and had a working TV and working phone, plus many other comforts.

A funny aside: People want to spend money immediately after a storm passes - buy anything if you have cash, just to feel “normal”. There is a Shipley’s Donut store in my town and they cook with gas so they were open using candle light to light the store. I’m sure the rush started when one fellow saw a light there and stopped - then the whole parking lot was full of cars/trucks to buy donuts and other pastries.

So, food was gone, bottled water was gone, frozen food at grocery stores was stacked behind the buildings as it was trash at that point, and rotting.

As I said, power was off for five days. When power came back on, there was still no food or water delivered. Why? Because there was no gas in stations and supply trucks would not come until they could be assured their trucks could refuel.

It took another one, two, or three days, can’t remember, before any fuel trucks got here. Then, slowly, supply trucks began to arrive.

I noted that bread was the last item to get here, three days after other food was here. I assumed that was because our bread is made in Houston and bakeries had to start up again and make fresh bread.

I saw it and I know without trucks, we’re toast (and you won’t get bread to make toast).