SALINAS, Calif. -- Super storm Sandy is sweeping away business here on the central coast.
"We have trucks headed that way that were supposed to deliver last night," said Travis Lee of Dawn Transportation in Salinas.
But because of the storm ripping through the east coast, Lee said his drivers are on standby waiting outside the storm's path.
He said the refrigerated trucks were delivering produce and nursery products from the central coast.
"A lot of our customers are in the northeast, so it's affected us a lot more because that's where majority of our trucks were headed. New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, so it kind of affected us more so," he said.
The refrigeration will still preserve the product, but he said as a result many of the truck drivers are stuck at stops and companies are having to come more out of the pocket.
"They have to sit overnight. They can't move, and we're paying them extra money for fuel costs as they got to keep the trailer running to keep the product cold," Lee said.
Lee still doesn't know how much the company will stand to lose but said as bad as it is, the economic impact on the central coast could even be worse.
"In a blizzard, you got to worry about products touching sides of the trailer and freezing from the outside in," he said.
