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It’s a simple fact of life for the commercial trucking industry: without replacement parts, the big semis stop rolling.
When the trucks stop rolling, store shelves across the United States won’t be refilled with products.
“It’s getting horrible” simply finding parts to fix the long-haul trucks, said Patrick Benford, general manager at Rocky Mountain Truck Centers, in Flagstaff, Arizona.
“We’ve run into a situation where parts are just not available.”
“What we’ve started having to do is search anywhere [parts can be found]. We’re using vendors we’ve never had to before,” he said.