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Tin Foil Hat Equipped
Location
Saratoga Springs, UT
Things are just getting weird, work has restricted travel until the end of April unless you get C-level approval.

Then I saw this in the news https://www.ksl.com/article/4672873...rence-will-be-via-technology-only-church-says
SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Wednesday that April's general conference sessions will be held virtually, some incoming missionaries will train remotely, and gatherings of multiple congregations in some areas will be postponed.
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Hickey

Hickey

Burn-barrel enthusiast
Supporting Member
Location
Grantsville, Utah
Skylinerider said:
High Volume Distribution Center. Commonly referred to in the DC as remix. It's things that they don't need to stack in the trucks that usually just come on pallets. I'm surprised I remember that. It's been a few minutes since I worked transportation at the DC.
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Good grief, you should free up space in your brain and forget that useless info!
 
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DesertRam

Active Member
Location
Southern New Mexico
Crazy time in New Mexico. The governor declared a public health emergency after three residents tested positive. She canceled all large gatherings that the state controls and recommended that those in control of other large events cancel. White Sands Missile Range cancelled the 31st annual Bataan Memorial Death March, at which more than 10,000 walkers were expected to celebrate the survivors of the namesake event.

I better head out for some toilet paper and hand sanitizer or I'll end up like you guys in Utah.
 
JeeperG

JeeperG

Well-Known Member
Location
Riverdale
Hickey said:
As a delivery driver who actually delivers these goods on a daily basis, it's just incredible to me to see how much demand has ramped up.

My company (that one big one) has 3 basic delivery types for our stores.
1-General Merchandise
2-Frozen Food and Dairy
3-HVDC

HVDC stands for High Velocity... I can't remember the rest of it. Basically it's the items that sell out the fastest after hitting the shelves. It's mainly Toilet Paper, bottled water, and other paper products. I don't know the statistics off hand, but I would guess those HVDC loads are 40% of our total deliveries. There is at least one 53' semi trailer delivered to every single store in America, every single day... BEFORE this madness all began. Many stores get as many as 3 semi trailers a day for HVDC.

Anyway, I've been sent to the PNW for this week to help delivery the extra loads. I'll take some pics of the inside of these trailers for y'all.
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As someone who builds trailers, maybe your bosses could start ordering some more? 🙂. Definitely interesting to watch all this play out, prior to this virus the trailer building business slowed down considerably since last year, we had a huge layoff not long ago and shut down most of night shift, most of us where also forced to 30 hour weeks for a month, I don't think it'll get any better and imagine we'll have another layoff soon with all of night shift shutting down, certainly be more economic impacts coming.
 
Hickey

Hickey

Burn-barrel enthusiast
Supporting Member
Location
Grantsville, Utah
JeeperG said:
As someone who builds trailers, maybe your bosses could start ordering some more? 🙂. Definitely interesting to watch all this play out, prior to this virus the trailer building business slowed down considerably since last year, we had a huge layoff not long ago and shut down most of night shift, most of us where also forced to 30 hour weeks for a month, I don't think it'll get any better and imagine we'll have another layoff soon with all of night shift shutting down, certainly be more economic impacts coming.
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They've had a pretty steady supply coming in this year. More than usual, but maybe not from your company.
 
glockman

glockman

I hate Jeep trucks
Location
Pleasant Grove
They are taking some seriously extreme measures at my work. I've been here 19 years and never seen anything like it. Trying to create a workplace where if someone contracts it, they are segregated to only a percentage of the workforce being exposed or put at risk. It's pretty cool they are going to this length to essentially protect us but seems a bit overboard. I guess we will see.
 
Kevin B.

Kevin B.

Not often wrong. Never quite right.
Moderator
Location
Stinkwater
glockman said:
It's pretty cool they are going to this length to essentially protect us but seems a bit overboard.
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I'm not sure it is. Assuming that the hospitalization rate we're seeing in other countries holds here in the US, we're looking at getting overwhelmed hospitals, which raises the fatality rate. We're not going to stop the spread of the virus, but the more we slow it, the more we spread out those hospitalizations and give the health care industry time to do their job.

abcnews.go.com

Why flattening the curve for coronavirus matters

Why flattening the curve for coronavirus matters.
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Cody

Cody

Random Quote Generator
Supporting Member
Location
Gastown
Talking to downtown bars and restaurants, most are down close to 50% or more this week. The salt palace canceled all conventions in March. That's about 50k visitors no longer coming and spending money. The NBA is postponed now. No crowds for the ncaa tournament. That's a lot of workers in the travel, tourism, service, and bar/restaurant industry that will be severely impacted. Most of those people don't have savings, so that's going to trickle down into late mortgages, debt payments, etc. I feel like this is how you jump start a recession.
 
jeeper

jeeper

I live my life 1 dumpster at a time
Location
So Jo, Ut
Cody said:
Most of those people don't have savings, so that's going to trickle down into late mortgages, debt payments, etc. I feel like this is how you jump start a recession.
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And then it's Trumps fault and Sanders get elected to fix our problems :spork:
 
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