Delayed

 It's been a long while, I feel like, since our Fish Truck has been delayed.

I mean. We've had delays where the Truck has broken down or gotten stuck.

But it's been ages since the truck hasn't arrived the same day they said it would arrive.

Mostly because we've switched in the last year or so from having our supply truck and fish truck be the same truck. 

To All the stores in our state having all our fish on one truck. And the truck starts at the north part of the state and works it's way down to us.

Which is frustrating in some ways...being the last store. Because that means we don't get our truck until later in the day...often when it's busy.

On good days it shows up around 3 or 4 pm. On other days...it won't arrive until 6 or 7. 

And yesterday....it was a rather stormy day for the state.

As it's been snowing off and on for like the past week.

But yah, yesterday was still pretty stormy. 

In any case.

We were still pretty hopeful that the truck would arrive last night. Despite the storms.

Yet, around 4pm I checked our tracking map...and it showed that the truck still had 4 other stores to go to before reaching ours. But the estimated time was around 7pm for arrival.

Not ideal. As I was off about that time. So that would mean one less person to help with the fish shipment.

But still. It would be before we closed.

However. 

A couple of hours later, I check again.

And the tracking has only shown that the truck has moved to one more store in that time frame. Meaning there were still 3 more stores to go before reaching us.

And the estimated arrival time had jumped another hour to being closer to 8.

But judging by the timeframes of where the other stores were located and the amount of time it takes to unload...yes...in normal conditions the truck would have probably gotten to us by 8.

But with the storms and all the snow and the fact the truck had barely made progress...made me think that the time to get to our store would be doubled or tripled the expected timeframe.

Not to mention that I know the truck drivers can only 'drive' a limited amount of hours each shift. So if they took too long...they'd have to stop for a mandatory rest period before they could move further.

And the dude had been going since the morning.

So yah. I was estimating that the truck may not come to our store at all last night. Or if it did it would arrive after we had closed. 

Which I was right.

The truck arrived about 20 minutes after we closed last night.

Which meant I had the fun task this morning -since the fish remained on the truck overnight- of unloading all our fish.

And the shipment was a lot larger than I expected.

Mostly because I didn't do as deep as a fish count this week having done a deeper fish count last week.

But last week's fish shipment was like barely a layer and a couple of boxes.

Which didn't match at all the deep fish count I'd done last week.

So I'm guessing that the holidays messed with the supplier's ability to replenish our fish wall.

Because today we had a nice hefty 3 layers of boxes that I got to go through this morning.

But considering that the fish spent like a good 12 hours longer on the truck than they should have...they overall did pretty good. 

So that's good.

Still kinda weird that the truck got delayed that much.

But at the same time, with all the snow?? Not surprising at all.

Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

Sarnic Dirchi