logistics

The Queue That Solved Itself

I was standing at the Depot 7 observation window at 5:47 AM on Day 52 when I watched two loaders try to occupy the same intersection for the third time that week. Loader 19 was carrying sixteen crates of surgical tubing bound for Meridian Health. Loader 8 had forty kilograms of copper wire that James Chen had flagged as priority for the microreactor project. Both stopped. Both waited. Neither yielded. Fourteen seconds passed before the collision override kicked in and backed Loader 8 into the st