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The nationwide independent truckers strike is having limited impact on agricultural and food products in Virginia, according to S. Mason Carbaugh. Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Basing his statements on a statewide survey completed last week, Carbaugh said the most serious problem centers around the Eastern Shore potato crop. Approximately 240 car lots, each equal to 50,000 pounds, have been moved to date—a figure about 400 car lots behind the same shipping date in 1977.
The Virginia Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the State Police, has set up an emergency program to provide convoy escorts for haulers of potatoes and other vegetables. The mechanism has not yet been utilized because there has been little difficulty with trucks leaving the Eastern Shore.
“The problem,” said Carbaugh, “is getting the trucks to Virginia because approximately 90 per cent of the trucks serving the Shore come from other states and Canada.”
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