NY City probably has closer to a 3 day supply of fresh food than two weeks. Computers have made just in time delivery a real thing and real estate prices have made storage a real issue for smaller businesses. I do not know if this thing will catch on, but it would not take long for the impact to be felt if even 15-20% of truckers got involved. A better strategy than a full boycott would be to just Botox things up with no Monday Friday deliveries. You might get more truckers involved if they did not have to cut their own noses off.
2 weeks vs 3 days: My suspicion is that they would use other means to pull in resources from outside the area after the ‘just in time stuff’ ran out. Emergency rail was my first thought. I should have emphasized a key line out of the article:
“...perception is reality, and they already have a preconceived notion about us. Let’s use both to our advantage...”
Think about that.
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