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2020 has been a crazy year and the trucking industry has had to work hard and adapt to one crisis after another, so, now, as if we didn’t have enough to worry about, we have the weather creating issues. The impending La Niña weather system is upon us and going to cause more problems.

So not only do truckies have to make sure they keep the correct social distance at all times, get regular Covid tests, and strictly keep all of the other rules and regulations around where we can and cannot go in a service station, or at delivery or collection sites, now we have to be aware that large swathes of the highway system maybe knocked out by floodwaters for an undefined period.

Luckily, if there is one characteristic of the trucking industry you can rely on, it is the ability to deal with problems, and ensure that the goods which the community and industry require get to their destination in the best possible condition and in as timely a manner as possible.

Unfortunately, dealing with the floods as the predicted, much higher than normal, rainfall occurs, at the same time as the number of cyclones increase, is not going to get truckies brownie points in the same way that ensuring the supermarket shelves were still fully stocked as the panic unfolded at the beginning of the Covid crisis.

Hopefully, the fact that there are plenty of warnings about a dramatic potential weather event arriving will have its usual effect, not occurring just to make the experts look foolish. However, there will also be many who will be welcoming any increase in rainfall with open arms, the inland drought effected farming areas. 

In actual fact, trucking operators will not need to make many adaptations to the mitigate the predicted downpours, many already have contingencies built into their systems. From an individual truckie’s point of view, it will probably be a good ideas to bring plenty of food along, both refrigerated and tinned. You never know just how long some of those river crossings or floodplains are going to be impassable.

as if we didn't have enough to worry about

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