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Peaches, nectarines, plums and table grapes from Chile are now arriving at ports by boat on both the East and West coasts. That fruit is distributed all over North 
American via truck. The stone fruit arrivals should start arriving in larger volume by the end of January….The heaviest volume for grapes should begin by late January as well and continue through March, when a seasonal decline will start, with the season ending by May.
The East Coast ports at Wilmington, N.C. and Philadephia receive a majority of the Chilean produce. The primary port on the West Coast is at Long Beach, CA.
California, Arizona and Texas are all importing winter produce from Mexico. There are Baja tomatoes coming into California. The biggest change is happening in Arizona where various types of veggies and melons are crossing
the border at Nogales. Volume is building and plenty of action should be taking place at the many distribution loading docks on this side of the border between now and the next three months or so….Still overall produce loads are not nearly as plentiful as other times of the year in the U.S. Too often produce truckers are facing multiple picks ups starting in Southern California, then proceeding to Yuma, AZ and possiblity even Nogales.
Mexico produce in crossing the border at McAllen, TX ranging from various veggies to citrus and tomatoes. You might have to fill out the load with Lower Rio Grande Valley citrus or cabbage from the Winter Garden District, just south of San Antonio.
Texas produce – grossing about $2600 to Chicago.
Nogales mixed loads – around $5500 to New York City;
$3500 to Chicago.
Goal is Reduce Potential Disputes with Produce
January 17, 2012 – The North American Produce Transportation Working Group (NAPTWG), representing produce transportation stakeholders from 
associations and industry groups across North America, announced today the availability of the new North American Produce Transportation Guidelines. The document integrates multiple existing transportation guidelines into one best practices document which can be used throughout North America to ensure the ongoing vitality of the carrier sector. These best practice guidelines were agreed to by various stakeholders in the produce supply chain and were reviewed and endorsed by the Blue Book and the Dispute Resolution Corporation (DRC) to ensure compliance with industry trading guidelines for North America. The NAPTWG aims to provide necessary guidance for seamless product movement and to ensure that the produce industry continues to have sufficient access to carriers to meet the needs of the produce industry in North America.
“The new guidelines represent an incredible volume of work by industry associations and produce organizations involved in the transport of fresh produce,” noted David Dever, President and CEO of Sun World International and United’s NAPTWG Chairman. “We all know how crucial ensuring the vitality of our carrier industry is to the long term viability of the North American produce industry and this is one tool to support that.”
Best practices are generally-accepted, informally-standardized techniques, methods or processes that have proven themselves over time to accomplish given tasks. By following proper processes, checks and testing, a desired outcome can be delivered more effectively with fewer problems and unforeseen complications. In addition, a “best” practice can evolve to become better as improvements are discovered. The NAPTWG compilation of best practice guidelines is intended to be an evolving document to guide efficiency in produce transportation.
“Transportation carriers are facing increasing costs and complexities today,” said David Owen, President of National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC). “If we don’t all play our part in assisting carriers and making produce a desirable industry to do business in, we could face shortages of carriers in the future. The guidelines should be used by all to ensure that doesn’t happen.”
The document is available free of charge to the produce industry and carriers at www.naptwg.org.
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The North American Produce Transportation Working Group (NAPTWG) is comprised of more than 25 national and regional produce industry associations, transportation service providers, grower/shippers and perishable receivers. In cooperation with United Fresh Produce Association, NATWG works to provide best practice resources to those involved in the fresh produce supply chain.
By Larry Oscar
Life is a journey of learning, or at least it should be. Sometimes I wonder if people realize that we were created to learn, and we should never stop learning. We have the largest brain for our size of any species on the planet. It’s a shame that some folks just don’t use it. As you get older it’s even more important that you exercise your brain just as much as you should exercise your body. Failure to do so results in a slower mental function and more rapid 
deterioration of your faculties. That goes for other things too…. but I digress.
New technology has helped a lot of us improve our lives, but it requires us to learn and use our brains even more. We all could use more education. Education is the key out of poverty. It is the source of innovation and economic prosperity. It is also the fuel that keeps your life fire glowing. Without it we can become a walking vegetable, our life gets boring, and we will shrink into a society of Eric Blair’s (George Orwell) vision of 1984.
Blair was a committed socialist. Ironically his novels educated us, at least for those people who took the time to read them, on the evils that socialism brings. We are a species that continually asks questions and challenges the status quo. That’s not a bad thing, that’s a good thing. For by doing so we learn what works and what doesn’t. In the sixties we challenged darn near everything including the length of a persons hair. As a result, we found out what matters, and what doesn’t. Hair length doesn’t. Unprotected sex does.
Recently we have all witnessed the good and the bad of so called “change.” The recent Tea Parties our tax paying citizens are attending reminds me of the sixties protests. I was at some of those protests. They were a great place to meet chicks!Those protests were supporting individual liberties and an ever expanding freedom from slavery. They brought about new civil rights legislation aimed at insuring that all of us enjoy freedom. Not just a certain group, but all of us.
Today our nation is “changing” back to an era when slavery was considered a normal part of the society. Our leaders are creating a “slavery class” out of taxpayers. Think about it. What’s the difference in being forced to work for the sole benefit of plantation owners under forced involuntary servitude, and in being forced to work for six months out of every year for the sole purpose of the government under forced involuntary tax servitude. No difference, in fact, for those fifty percent of us that are forced to work to pay income taxes so a special few, forty eight percent of us who don’t pay income taxes, can feed off of the producers in our society.
There is no difference at all. What kind of “change” is it that simply rotates the tires. If you have a car with four bald tires, what good does it do to rotate them? Today we hear all of the talking heads spout out, “The polls show that the American people want……..”. We need true leadership in our nation and we are not getting it today. Not from either party. To tell the American people that “The peopleknow they must live within their means”, and then in the next breath to say to them, “We must pass this $787 billion dollar stimulus bill….”, funded by borrowing, is the ultimate in hypocrisy. That’s not the change that was voted for. It’s not what the American people “want” that our leaders should be focusing on. It’s what the American people “need” that they should be focusing on. What the American people “need” is to be forced to live within their means. That refers to individuals, local governments, state governments, and the federal government as well. The American people “need” to be educated and we must never stop getting educated.
We “need” to learn from the lessons history has given us. We “need” to put our “needs” in front of our “wants”. “Wants” are an emotion, but “Needs” are the requirements of life. We have been living in a false economy. When seventy percent of our economy is consumer spending, and those consumers are in an all time high credit card and mortgage debt, then our economy has been funded by false wealth. You can’t borrow a million dollars and then call yourself a millionaire. We have been called “The richest nation on Earth”. How can we be the richest when we have more debt than any other nation in the world?
The truth is we are a nation of undereducated debtors who don’t want to pay the bills for the lifestyles we have been living. If you’re going to give a dance, you have to pay the band. Enough said. I’m running out of space and time, and to top that off I “NEED” more scotch and another cigar. Rats!I ’m out of both…….Oh well, I’ll do what seems to be the “new patriotic thing”, and go mooch them from my neighbor.
Do I ever love asparagus! Absolutely, it’s in my top five
favorites with it come to veggies! Not only does it taste great
but it is one of the most nutritious vegetables around.
Asparagus is the leading supplier of folic acid. It’s also a good
source of potassium, fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B6
and thiamin. Asparagus is low in sodium and contains no fat
or cholesterol. Cooking asparagus takes only minutes. It can be boiled, steamed, microwaved or stir-fried. You absolutely do not want to overcook asparagus. Overcooking will cause the asparagus to lose many of the nutrients.
Trim the stem ends slightly. Boil asparagus in ½ cup of water or steam in the steamer in 1 ½ -2 inches of water. Either method takes about 6-8 minutes. Cook until crisp and tender.
To microwave asparagus, use a microwavable baking dish or
bowl. If cooking whole spears, arrange with the tips in the
center. Add ¼ cup of water, cover and cook for 4-7 minutes
for spears, 3-5 for cuts and tips. To stir-fry, cut spears
diagonally in ½ inch pieces, leaving the tips whole. In a
skillet, add pieces of butter or hot oil and cook at
medium-high heat for only 3-5 minutes. Stir constantly
until tender.
Food Lion stores over the years developed a pretty bad reputation for the way it treated truckers delivering produce and other items to its distribution 
centers. Some say this situation has improved over the past five years or so.
Whatever the case, Food Lion’s parent company Delhaize America is planning to shutter 126 stores and slash 49,000 jobs, plus discontinue its Bloom banner, which some stores operated under, according to the Food Lion website. Delhaize has 1,600 stores operating in 16 states, mostly in the Southeastern part of the country. Among its operations are Bottom Dollar Food, Food Lion, Harveys, Hannaford Supermarkets, Reid’s and Sweetbay.
Closings of the stores should take place within the next month.
Oranges, potatoes and sweet potatoes are among the larger volume produce items shipped during the bleak, cold winter months. In a 
recession (or is it a depression?) that has been going on for at least three years, big crops of potatoes mean good movement (loading opportunities) as cash strapped consumers look for something less expensive to eat.
Idaho easily leads the nation in potato shipments. Rails haul a lot of them, but there are only so many rail cars and tracks, so big rigs are still hauling the marjority of the product. Idaho potato shipments are expected to be up 6%, while the nation as a whole is up 7%…..As for sweet potatoes, eastern North Carolina has the most shipments, with loadings also available from California, Louisiana and Mississippi. Total loads are forecast to be up 13% over a year ago.
As for oranges, Florida expects to ship 147 million boxes compared to 58 million boxes for California. Florida is up some from the previous season, while California is down slightly. Florida’s forecast could eventually be reduced some if a recent freeze damages some of the citrus.
California sweet potatoes – grossing about $4800 to Atlanta.
North Carolina sweet potatoes – $2200 to Detroit.
Florida citrus – $2000 to Baltimore.
Idaho potatoes – $3400 to Dallas.
When everything we seem to buy anymore is going up in price, two items that should be bucking the trend are pears and kiwifruit. Both are now in abundance.
Wholesale pear prices have actually dropped a little from last season coming of Washington state. The question is whether you’ll see any lower prices at retail. Retailers love to pay less for product, yet pocket the savings for themselves. Much of it depends on how much competition the retailer is facing. I’ve tried 3 varieties of pears so far this season. The Bartlett pears were tasty and juicy; yum, yum. However, the Bosc variety and Red pear was not nearly as good.
I recently wrote about kiwifruit from New Zealand and Italy with NZ winning the taste competition. Now kiwi from California is in abundance and it’s really good in quality and taste. While retail prices on many produce items are climbing, kiwi continues to be one of the best buys in the produce department.
By Bully Dog
In 2011, after establishing a reputation for producing industry-leading tuning products for a myriad of heavy duty applications, Bully Dog introduced the Heavy Duty WatchDog. This product was a revolutionary leap forward from the previous generation: a multifunctional digital gauge pack designed to help truck drivers improve fuel economy, reduce vehicle wear and tear, and improve on road safety. But along with the WatchDog came the promise of more: A device combining the capabilities of the WatchDog with the time-tested tuning platform that Bully Dog has spent years perfecting.
The new Heavy Duty Gauge Tuner (HDGT) is the culmination of those efforts: Bully Dog’s premiere Heavy Duty product. It incorporates Bully Dog’s time-tested and Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) approved economy tuning with the complete gauge package, diagnostics and proven Driving Coach software of the Heavy Duty WatchDog. The HDGT was engineered to safely improve the operation of heavy duty trucks by providing a more efficient fuel burn, enhanced real-time feedback and heightened driver awareness. This translates to money in the pockets of fleets and owner-operators in the form of fuel and time savings. The multitude of available features and top-shelf tuning the HDGT offers have been carefully assembled to offer the maximum value to drivers and companies, and is compounded by the fact that Bully Dog offers unique custom tuning for every truck at no additional cost.
Users who previously purchased the Heavy Duty WatchDog also have the option to upgrade their devices with GT Tuning capabilities by visiting the Bully Dog website. Initially being offered for ‘03.5 – ’11 Cummins applications, the Heavy Duty GT will add support for Caterpillar and Detroit applications in the near future. Visit bigrig.bullydog.com for more details.
Union workers at the Hunts Point Terminal Wholsale Market in Bronx, NY have not went on strike in 25 years, but they are threatening to if a labor agreement is not met with market representatives. If you are on your way to the nation’s largest wholesale produce receiving facility just be aware the laborers are saying they’ll strike at 12:01 a.m. on January 17th.
Negotiations are continuing and you can bet Hunts Point wholesalers will do what it takes to stay open even if the strike occurs. How smoothly trucks would move in and out of the market is something to keep an eye on.
Peaches, nectarines, plums and table grapes from Chile are now arriving at ports by boat on both the East and West coasts. That fruit is distributed all over North American via truck. The stone fruit arrivals should start arriving in larger volume by the end of January….The heaviest volume for grapes should begin by late January as well and continue through March, when a seasonal decline will start, with the season ending by May.
The East Coast ports at Wilmington, N.C. and Philadephia receive a majority of the Chilean produce. The primary port on the West Coast is at Long Beach, CA.
California, Arizona and Texas are all importing winter produce from Mexico. There are Baja tomatoes coming into California. The biggest change is happening in Arizona where various types of veggies and melons are crossing the border at Nogales. Volume is building and plenty of action should be taking place at the many distribution loading docks on this side of the border between now and the next three months or so….Still overall produce loads are not nearly as plentiful as other times of the year in the U.S. Too often produce truckers are facing multiple picks ups starting in Southern California, then proceeding to Yuma, AZ and possiblity even Nogales.
Mexico produce in crossing the border at McAllen, TX ranging from various veggies to citrus and tomatoes. You might have to fill out the load with Lower Rio Grande Valley citrus or cabbage from the Winter Garden District, just south of San Antonio.
Texas produce – grossing about $2600 to Chicago.
Nogales mixed loads – around $5500 to New York City;
$3500 to Chicago.
Goal is Reduce Potential Disputes with Produce
January 17, 2012 – The North American Produce Transportation Working Group (NAPTWG), representing produce transportation stakeholders from associations and industry groups across North America, announced today the availability of the new North American Produce Transportation Guidelines. The document integrates multiple existing transportation guidelines into one best practices document which can be used throughout North America to ensure the ongoing vitality of the carrier sector. These best practice guidelines were agreed to by various stakeholders in the produce supply chain and were reviewed and endorsed by the Blue Book and the Dispute Resolution Corporation (DRC) to ensure compliance with industry trading guidelines for North America. The NAPTWG aims to provide necessary guidance for seamless product movement and to ensure that the produce industry continues to have sufficient access to carriers to meet the needs of the produce industry in North America.
“The new guidelines represent an incredible volume of work by industry associations and produce organizations involved in the transport of fresh produce,” noted David Dever, President and CEO of Sun World International and United’s NAPTWG Chairman. “We all know how crucial ensuring the vitality of our carrier industry is to the long term viability of the North American produce industry and this is one tool to support that.”
Best practices are generally-accepted, informally-standardized techniques, methods or processes that have proven themselves over time to accomplish given tasks. By following proper processes, checks and testing, a desired outcome can be delivered more effectively with fewer problems and unforeseen complications. In addition, a “best” practice can evolve to become better as improvements are discovered. The NAPTWG compilation of best practice guidelines is intended to be an evolving document to guide efficiency in produce transportation.
“Transportation carriers are facing increasing costs and complexities today,” said David Owen, President of National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC). “If we don’t all play our part in assisting carriers and making produce a desirable industry to do business in, we could face shortages of carriers in the future. The guidelines should be used by all to ensure that doesn’t happen.”
The document is available free of charge to the produce industry and carriers at www.naptwg.org.
###
The North American Produce Transportation Working Group (NAPTWG) is comprised of more than 25 national and regional produce industry associations, transportation service providers, grower/shippers and perishable receivers. In cooperation with United Fresh Produce Association, NATWG works to provide best practice resources to those involved in the fresh produce supply chain.
By Larry Oscar
Life is a journey of learning, or at least it should be. Sometimes I wonder if people realize that we were created to learn, and we should never stop learning. We have the largest brain for our size of any species on the planet. It’s a shame that some folks just don’t use it. As you get older it’s even more important that you exercise your brain just as much as you should exercise your body. Failure to do so results in a slower mental function and more rapid deterioration of your faculties. That goes for other things too…. but I digress.
New technology has helped a lot of us improve our lives, but it requires us to learn and use our brains even more. We all could use more education. Education is the key out of poverty. It is the source of innovation and economic prosperity. It is also the fuel that keeps your life fire glowing. Without it we can become a walking vegetable, our life gets boring, and we will shrink into a society of Eric Blair’s (George Orwell) vision of 1984.
Blair was a committed socialist. Ironically his novels educated us, at least for those people who took the time to read them, on the evils that socialism brings. We are a species that continually asks questions and challenges the status quo. That’s not a bad thing, that’s a good thing. For by doing so we learn what works and what doesn’t. In the sixties we challenged darn near everything including the length of a persons hair. As a result, we found out what matters, and what doesn’t. Hair length doesn’t. Unprotected sex does.
Recently we have all witnessed the good and the bad of so called “change.” The recent Tea Parties our tax paying citizens are attending reminds me of the sixties protests. I was at some of those protests. They were a great place to meet chicks!Those protests were supporting individual liberties and an ever expanding freedom from slavery. They brought about new civil rights legislation aimed at insuring that all of us enjoy freedom. Not just a certain group, but all of us.
Today our nation is “changing” back to an era when slavery was considered a normal part of the society. Our leaders are creating a “slavery class” out of taxpayers. Think about it. What’s the difference in being forced to work for the sole benefit of plantation owners under forced involuntary servitude, and in being forced to work for six months out of every year for the sole purpose of the government under forced involuntary tax servitude. No difference, in fact, for those fifty percent of us that are forced to work to pay income taxes so a special few, forty eight percent of us who don’t pay income taxes, can feed off of the producers in our society.
There is no difference at all. What kind of “change” is it that simply rotates the tires. If you have a car with four bald tires, what good does it do to rotate them? Today we hear all of the talking heads spout out, “The polls show that the American people want……..”. We need true leadership in our nation and we are not getting it today. Not from either party. To tell the American people that “The peopleknow they must live within their means”, and then in the next breath to say to them, “We must pass this $787 billion dollar stimulus bill….”, funded by borrowing, is the ultimate in hypocrisy. That’s not the change that was voted for. It’s not what the American people “want” that our leaders should be focusing on. It’s what the American people “need” that they should be focusing on. What the American people “need” is to be forced to live within their means. That refers to individuals, local governments, state governments, and the federal government as well. The American people “need” to be educated and we must never stop getting educated.
We “need” to learn from the lessons history has given us. We “need” to put our “needs” in front of our “wants”. “Wants” are an emotion, but “Needs” are the requirements of life. We have been living in a false economy. When seventy percent of our economy is consumer spending, and those consumers are in an all time high credit card and mortgage debt, then our economy has been funded by false wealth. You can’t borrow a million dollars and then call yourself a millionaire. We have been called “The richest nation on Earth”. How can we be the richest when we have more debt than any other nation in the world?
The truth is we are a nation of undereducated debtors who don’t want to pay the bills for the lifestyles we have been living. If you’re going to give a dance, you have to pay the band. Enough said. I’m running out of space and time, and to top that off I “NEED” more scotch and another cigar. Rats!I ’m out of both…….Oh well, I’ll do what seems to be the “new patriotic thing”, and go mooch them from my neighbor.
Do I ever love asparagus! Absolutely, it’s in my top five
favorites with it come to veggies! Not only does it taste great
but it is one of the most nutritious vegetables around.
Asparagus is the leading supplier of folic acid. It’s also a good
source of potassium, fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B6
and thiamin. Asparagus is low in sodium and contains no fat
or cholesterol. Cooking asparagus takes only minutes. It can be boiled, steamed, microwaved or stir-fried. You absolutely do not want to overcook asparagus. Overcooking will cause the asparagus to lose many of the nutrients.
Trim the stem ends slightly. Boil asparagus in ½ cup of water or steam in the steamer in 1 ½ -2 inches of water. Either method takes about 6-8 minutes. Cook until crisp and tender.
To microwave asparagus, use a microwavable baking dish or
bowl. If cooking whole spears, arrange with the tips in the
center. Add ¼ cup of water, cover and cook for 4-7 minutes
for spears, 3-5 for cuts and tips. To stir-fry, cut spears
diagonally in ½ inch pieces, leaving the tips whole. In a
skillet, add pieces of butter or hot oil and cook at
medium-high heat for only 3-5 minutes. Stir constantly
until tender.
Food Lion stores over the years developed a pretty bad reputation for the way it treated truckers delivering produce and other items to its distribution centers. Some say this situation has improved over the past five years or so.
Whatever the case, Food Lion’s parent company Delhaize America is planning to shutter 126 stores and slash 49,000 jobs, plus discontinue its Bloom banner, which some stores operated under, according to the Food Lion website. Delhaize has 1,600 stores operating in 16 states, mostly in the Southeastern part of the country. Among its operations are Bottom Dollar Food, Food Lion, Harveys, Hannaford Supermarkets, Reid’s and Sweetbay.
Closings of the stores should take place within the next month.
Oranges, potatoes and sweet potatoes are among the larger volume produce items shipped during the bleak, cold winter months. In a recession (or is it a depression?) that has been going on for at least three years, big crops of potatoes mean good movement (loading opportunities) as cash strapped consumers look for something less expensive to eat.
Idaho easily leads the nation in potato shipments. Rails haul a lot of them, but there are only so many rail cars and tracks, so big rigs are still hauling the marjority of the product. Idaho potato shipments are expected to be up 6%, while the nation as a whole is up 7%…..As for sweet potatoes, eastern North Carolina has the most shipments, with loadings also available from California, Louisiana and Mississippi. Total loads are forecast to be up 13% over a year ago.
As for oranges, Florida expects to ship 147 million boxes compared to 58 million boxes for California. Florida is up some from the previous season, while California is down slightly. Florida’s forecast could eventually be reduced some if a recent freeze damages some of the citrus.
California sweet potatoes – grossing about $4800 to Atlanta.
North Carolina sweet potatoes – $2200 to Detroit.
Florida citrus – $2000 to Baltimore.
Idaho potatoes – $3400 to Dallas.
When everything we seem to buy anymore is going up in price, two items that should be bucking the trend are pears and kiwifruit. Both are now in abundance.
Wholesale pear prices have actually dropped a little from last season coming of Washington state. The question is whether you’ll see any lower prices at retail. Retailers love to pay less for product, yet pocket the savings for themselves. Much of it depends on how much competition the retailer is facing. I’ve tried 3 varieties of pears so far this season. The Bartlett pears were tasty and juicy; yum, yum. However, the Bosc variety and Red pear was not nearly as good.
I recently wrote about kiwifruit from New Zealand and Italy with NZ winning the taste competition. Now kiwi from California is in abundance and it’s really good in quality and taste. While retail prices on many produce items are climbing, kiwi continues to be one of the best buys in the produce department.
By Bully Dog
In 2011, after establishing a reputation for producing industry-leading tuning products for a myriad of heavy duty applications, Bully Dog introduced the Heavy Duty WatchDog. This product was a revolutionary leap forward from the previous generation: a multifunctional digital gauge pack designed to help truck drivers improve fuel economy, reduce vehicle wear and tear, and improve on road safety. But along with the WatchDog came the promise of more: A device combining the capabilities of the WatchDog with the time-tested tuning platform that Bully Dog has spent years perfecting.
The new Heavy Duty Gauge Tuner (HDGT) is the culmination of those efforts: Bully Dog’s premiere Heavy Duty product. It incorporates Bully Dog’s time-tested and Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) approved economy tuning with the complete gauge package, diagnostics and proven Driving Coach software of the Heavy Duty WatchDog. The HDGT was engineered to safely improve the operation of heavy duty trucks by providing a more efficient fuel burn, enhanced real-time feedback and heightened driver awareness. This translates to money in the pockets of fleets and owner-operators in the form of fuel and time savings. The multitude of available features and top-shelf tuning the HDGT offers have been carefully assembled to offer the maximum value to drivers and companies, and is compounded by the fact that Bully Dog offers unique custom tuning for every truck at no additional cost.
Users who previously purchased the Heavy Duty WatchDog also have the option to upgrade their devices with GT Tuning capabilities by visiting the Bully Dog website. Initially being offered for ‘03.5 – ’11 Cummins applications, the Heavy Duty GT will add support for Caterpillar and Detroit applications in the near future. Visit bigrig.bullydog.com for more details.
Union workers at the Hunts Point Terminal Wholsale Market in Bronx, NY have not went on strike in 25 years, but they are threatening to if a labor agreement is not met with market representatives. If you are on your way to the nation’s largest wholesale produce receiving facility just be aware the laborers are saying they’ll strike at 12:01 a.m. on January 17th.
Negotiations are continuing and you can bet Hunts Point wholesalers will do what it takes to stay open even if the strike occurs. How smoothly trucks would move in and out of the market is something to keep an eye on.