Gasoline Pinch May Grind On for Week or More Amid Truck Shortage By Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- Fuel shortages plaguing parts of the U.S. East and South probably will drag on for a week or more because there aren’t enough tanker trucks to haul supplies to filling stations, according to one of North America’s biggest distributors. Now that Colonial Pipeline Co. has resumed deliveries that were halted for days by a criminal hack, the industry is facing a new challenge: a scarcity of trucks and drivers needed to ferry gasoline and diesel from distribution hubs to retail outlets, said Andy Milton, senior vice president of supply at Mansfield Energy Corp....
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