But farmers are not the only people impacted by uncertainty.  To some extent, we all are carrying more inventory because of uncertainty about vendors or truckers’ delivering what is needed – when it is needed.  As we all love the reliability of Amazon and the constant updates they provide, the question is:  when will the rest of the world catch up?  We see one small corner of this:  orders sent to the warehouse that simply won’t fit onto the truck without damage or making the load fail at the scale.  To compensate, shippers set order maximums to be smaller than trailer capacity.  This was driven home in the last few weeks by clients weighing supposedly full trucks only to find that there was a ton or more of capacity wasted. How much longer can we afford this?  Stop waiting and get on this, Mr. Shipper!