With much of the country (slowly but surely) returning to on-site work and downtown dining and commerce heading back toward full capacity, already complicated urban delivery environments are about to get even more complicated — or, at least, return to a more familiar level of complication. And, so far, the Delta variant doesn’t really seem to be putting a dent in that.
“During the pandemic, we did notice less traffic on our delivery routes,” says Kurt Strickmaker, president of BountyBev in Nashville — whose population grew more than 20% between 2010 and 2020, putting significantly more vehicles on the road. “The traffic seems back to normal currently.”