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Gene Ash <[log in to unmask]>
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a Mike S snip followed by > my comment..
It's even more amazing when you consider 38 driving time doesn't count time spent refueling, both the vehicle and the drivers.  Even with two drivers trading off, I think there might bee some down time when both drivers need to not bee driving due to time behind the wheel constraints.

>I would think the time is somewhat a guess since it would depend on where in California you were going. It is a long drive from the ag-weight station at the southeastern border to the almonds.

>Although sometime denied such movement can be very hard on the bees especially if the weather becomes too hot or too cold.  With the later being more of an issue at this time of year. When we use to haul bees from Texas to North Dakota (about a 30+ hour drive) we calculated an average loss of about 5% as long as the air temperature was within normal boundaries.  It never happened to me but there were times when essentially all the hives on the load were lost to either overheating or excess chilling.

Gene

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