Swiss Truck

Received a telefone call today from a brother in Switzerland who owns a truck.
He offered his service - but es is asking 3000 Euro for the run.
The truck is available after August 15th.

I have a Romanian truck company that does these kind of runs for 1800 Euro. So now I have to see, if they can run for us, and if there is any change in price when they deliver into desaster areas.
There is always a certain risk when you drive into desaster areas: will the bridges hold? As many buildings are destroyed or seriously damaged - what do we unload into? This at times has led to delays up to one week.
At times there are security issues, as looting is often a problem in these areas.
Once we nearly lost a truck, because a groop of people went bezerk fearing they would receive any of the load! All that we said was, that we had to first UNLOAD before we could distribute. Fortunately a garrison was nearby and a bunch of soldiers pushed the crowd back to guard the truck.

We are praying that the Romanian government will relax it's stipulations: That it will be possible to deliver used (but very good) shoes, baby clothing, underwear and maybe even some toys.

We will have a board meeting today to decide how and when to proceed.