Often when people buy a product at a store, they don’t think about how the product came to be there and how the trucking industry assisted in getting the product to the store. So I thought I would take this opportunity to share a little bit of what I know on this.
Next time you are in the grocery store, take a look at a box of cereal.
The box is made of cardboard, often at places like Omaha box in Omaha Nebraska. They are then loaded on trucks and shipped to a print shop, like Nordenia in Jackson Missouri.
Print shops like Nordenia do not make the ink that they use to print. The ink is made a places like Seigwert in Des Moines Iowa. The ink is then loaded into tankers, bulk containers or 55 gallon drums and shipped via trucks to various print shops.
At the print shop, the pictures are made and printed onto the boxes. The empty cereal boxes are then loaded on trucks and shipped to places like Kellogs in Battle Creek Mi.
In Battle Creek Mi the boxes are then loaded with cereal and shipped via truck to various distribution centers around the united states like Hyvee distribution center in Chariton Iowa or the Walmart distribution centers in Mount Pleasant Iowa and Sterling Il. From the distribution centers, the cereal is the loaded on trucks and delivered to various stores, like the ones your moms and dads shop at.
With the exception of Kellogs in Battle Creek, I have picked up from or delivered to all of the places listed above.
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