The domino effect of the three-day-old lockdown continued to tell on the goods supply chain across states on Friday, with government intervention failing to resolve operational complexities like 60% of the 1.2 crore trucks stuck on highways and cities being held up because they are laden with “non-essential” FMCG cargo.The All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) said these trucks have to be allowed to reach their destinations quickly and unload the cargo before they can be deployed to carry essential items and replenish stocks in markets that are being allowed to open but don't have much to sell.“Our trucks usually carry vegetables and fruits from villages to the cities and, on the return journey, they mostly carry packaged goods of FMCG companies. We are operating at reduced capacity because trucks carrying FMCG cargo deemed as non-essentials have been stopped,” AIMTC president Kultaran Singh Atwal said.Empty trucks not being allowed to ply on some roads is adding to the problem.While a few lakh out of the 30 lakh trucks stranded on national and state highways started moving on Friday, snarls along stretches wide enough for just two vehicles to pass are delaying supply to markets starved of essentials. This problem is particularly acute in the smaller states of the northeast that are dependent on fuel and essential commodities going from various parts of the country through Assam. “Petrol and diesel vehicles are standing along with vegetable, grain, sand and cement trucks. They have to allow all vehicles to pass,” said Peter Thokcham, a trucker from Manipur. “The roads leading off NH 315A and NH 515 are very narrow.”Unlike on the first two days of the lockdown, transporters and governments have managed to prevent more drivers from abandoning their vehicles on highways by arranging food and water at many locations.In NCR, around 15,000 trucks coming from states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand have been stranded on the Gurgaon border for three days, triggering fears of a shortage of packaged food items, medicines and medical kits. The current delivery cycle is already two weeks behind, sources said.For e-comm players, too, supply has become as daunting a challenge as distribution. Officials of some of the top e-tailers said that while governments had started removing restrictions, inter-state movement of goods was proving to be both a logistical and financial bottleneck. Given that trucks now have to travel empty one-way, prices of essentials are likely to go up by 2-10%, according to the founder of one of India's largest supply chain companies.“Inter-state movement is still not clear, trade borders are still sealed. When it comes to local permission, the authorities have been forthcoming. We managed to get passes in Bengaluru and Gurgaon, while we are electronically applying for the same in Delhi. Hyderabad has asked for permission letters, which we have submitted. By end of the weekend, it should be back to normal, at least for local movement,” said TA Krishnan, co-founder and CEO of Ecom Express, a third-party logistics company catering to online platforms.The biggest issue for e-comm companies has been getting their workforce back to the warehouses. One of the larger companies said that only 20-25% of its delivery personnel turned up for work on Friday.“We are working towards building and strengthening the morale of delivery teams and supply chain executives, and are hopeful that more executives will resume work soon,” said Rajneesh Kumar , chief corporate affairs officer of Flipkart, which has resumed grocery deliveries in five cities — Bengaluru, Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai.BigBasket became operational across 20-odd cities, including Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata. In Kochi, it expects to get permission soon. The company said it would first clear the backlog of orders before taking new orders.Amazon is expected to resume operations by Saturday, starting with Bengaluru and Delhi. It is in the final stages of getting clearances in Tamil Nadu, Telangana, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Lucknow and Uttarakhand.Some states like Maharashtra and Punjab are, however, posing a problem, a source said. In Mumbai, Amazon is facing jurisdictional issues as all e-comm warehouses are in Bhiwandi, which falls in Thane.(With inputs from Rachel Chitra, Madhav Chanchani & Siddharth Tiwari in Bengaluru & Gurgaon)