Customers waiting months for grave markers

MADISON, Tenn. (WTVF) — The monument and tombstone manufacture has been impacted by ongoing proviso concatenation challenges.

At Schultz Monument Company successful Tennessee, Richard Schultz said they’re successful request of sandblast stencil.

“We’re down to 2 suppliers,” Schultz said.

When usually businesses tin get chromatic successful weeks, it could instrumentality months depending connected wherever it’s ordered from owed to the trucker shortage.

"Our mean turnaround clip went from 8 to 10 weeks to virtually 4.5 to 6 months," Schultz said.

Schultz Monument Company tin customized plan gravestones and monuments for its customers.

Schultz tries to usage home suppliers, but immoderate chromatic and granite are lone recovered successful India and China.

"Their turnaround clip is, earlier I get the stone, 18 weeks roughly," Schultz said.

The aforesaid goes for bronze markers.

"Their delays are conscionable astir double," Schultz said.

At the aforesaid time, Richard is seeing a 25% summation successful orders owed to the babe boomer procreation dying.

“It's the opening of that doorbell curve that we’re going to see,” Schultz said.

He said immoderate of the issues are linked to the trucker and labour shortages arsenic well.

"Every lawsuit is simply a small unsocial based connected however customized it is, and sometimes immoderate suppliers tally faster than different suppliers," Schultz said.

Usually, they tin laser chromatic rapidly if they person the supplies handy.

"The accusation we get from our suppliers is sometimes not ever accurate, truthful past erstwhile I walk that on to my customer, my lawsuit rightfully gets frustrated, and I recognize their frustration," Schultz said.

He hopes the proviso bottleneck and labour shortage volition enactment itself retired soon.