Blizzard of 2006; Trucking Through; the Snow; Deliveries Are Slowed but Not Stopped for Most Couriers, Drivers

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For Tim Jung, there's enormous pressure to meet delivery deadlines for manufacturing companies - where an assembly line shutdown could cost thousands of dollars per minute in lost production.

But Friday was one of those days when Jung Express and other delivery companies had to exercise lots of patience with snow- clogged highways and snarled traffic from Milwaukee to Chicago.

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Blizzard of 2006; Trucking Through; the Snow; Deliveries Are Slowed but Not Stopped for Most Couriers, Drivers

"We had to inch along like everybody else," said Jung, vice president of Jung Express, in Milwaukee.

Some of the major truck routes through Chicago were closed as a result of the storm that also sent a Fed Ex car...

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