About twice a year, we import a huge quantity of fruit trees. This coming weekend is one of those weekends. Months leading up to this weekend requires insane amount of logistics coordinating with over 700 clients we work with, various farmers who are grafting trees for us, truck drivers, farm workers, etc. It is crazy! Yesterday alone my daughter actually counted – 272 people had called or messaged me on Whatsapp before lunch just to ask questions about this weekend’s upcoming delivery. That was after literally NO sleep the night before because we were so busy finalising spreadsheets to make sure no one who has paid will be left out on collection day.
To compound the stress of 272 calls and texts, last minute logistics preparing for the trees, operating on no sleep, one of the truck drivers who we had already paid wasn’t answering our calls nor returning messages. Imagine. I have given my word to hundreds of clients that I will have their trees here by the weekend. I have accepted their payment for those trees. The truck driver is crucial to the success of this.
