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Originally Posted by Mr V
I know that some other areas use PODS. The PODS are delivered to the warehouse that accepts the shipments from FIRST where they are packed for the current season's game, then the company picks them up and transports them to the venues. I don't know what they do about consumables, whether they pack it all from the begining like FIRST does with their trucks, whether they are transported by volunteers, or if the PODS are returned to a central location for restock. PODS then stores the fields during the off-season.
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In NE at least, we stock all consumables at the beginning of the season, labeled and allocated out to events, just as FIRST does on regional fields. (We also ship all carpets, something FIRST does not do). Since we have pretty much the full set of cases regional trucks have, (with a few cases being combined), we can do this. Once the PODS and fields leave the NE FIRST warehouse, they won't roll back through until after DCMP week 7.
While we try to not do consumable restocking, obviously things happen. In that case, we'll overnight extra materials, or have a volunteer/staff member bring them, depending on the situation.
We actually no longer use PODS for off-season storage. The fields stay in our warehouse, and off-seasons are responsible for arranging their own logistics to borrow fields.