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Downstate Delawareans feeling pinch in trucker strike
While the truckers’ strike apparently has had minimal impact on supermarkets and industries in northern Delaware, downstate firms are beginning to feel the pinch.
Poultry and food processors in Sussex County have experienced sharply reduced shipments….
Incoming supplies to Vlasic Foods of Millsboro have been virtually cut altogether while outbound shipments are minimal.
Winton D. Gouge, owner of H&H Poultry in Selbyville, said, “We could really be hurting if it lasts much longer.”
Harry Bonk, president of the King Cole Ranch, a Milton cannery, said shipments of hothouse vegetables from northern states have been cut, about half the company’s intake….
Federal and state mediators met yesterday for a second day of talks with independent truckers as effects of their shutdown spread quickly across the nation….
George Lavender, an independent owner-operator from Indiana, told newsmen the negotiations had snagged on the issue of a rollback in diesel fuel prices….