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CDC issued coronavirus guidelines for long-haul truckers

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By: cdc.gov / iTrucker  / Mario Pawlowski    As a long-haul truck driver, you spend many hours alone in the cab of your truck. However, there are times when you will be at increased risk of exposure to COVID-19. For long-haul truck drivers, potential sources of exposure include having close contact with truck stop attendants, store workers, […]

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Almost 90,000 trucking jobs were lost in April only

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Story by: John Kingston at FreightWaves.com   With a staggering 88,000-plus jobs lost in the trucking sector in April, the question becomes whether the change is temporary or more structural. Since trucking is an industry in which barriers to entry and exit are so low, calling anything a “structural” change is always a bit risky. […]

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Trucking company that hauls for USPS, asked to give back PPP funds

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Story by: John Kingston at FreightWaves.com   A publicly-traded Phoenix-based trucking company, EVO Transportation that received $10 million under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has been asked to give it back. The company, EVO Transportation and Energy Services, mostly hauls for the U.S. Postal Service. Much of its fleet appears to be powered by compressed […]

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Trucking industry unites to provide hand sanitizer, masks for drivers

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Story by: Clarissa Hawes at FreightWaves.com   Ingrid Brown, a 40-year trucking veteran, says she was just “venting on social media” in mid-April about the struggles truck drivers were experiencing to find personal protective equipment, including face masks and hand sanitizer, at truck stops and other places out on the road, when she quickly discovered […]

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Freight brokers push back against Trump’s price-gouging claims

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Story by: John Gallagher, Washington Correspondent at FreightWaves.com   Representatives of the truck brokerage industry swiftly refuted President Donald Trump’s allegations of price gouging against small-business truck drivers after the President took sides with the drivers on the issue. Trump, who tweeted his support for the drivers during last week’s “May Day” demonstration rally held by […]

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Trump says on the Live TV that he knows the truckers are “price gouged”

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President Trump was interviewed by Fox News on May 8th, and responds to reporters’ questions regarding truckers being price gouged by saying, “they are price -gouged.” Hundreds of truckers came to Washington DC last Friday, May 1st, to protest low freight transportation rates, brokers transparency, safety, and more. As iTrucker iTrucker reported last Friday, President […]

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OOIDA asks Congress to mandate brokers supply deal data to carriers

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Story by: John Kingston at FreightWaves.com   The continuing anger on the part of independent owner-operators targeting the broker community for low trucking rates has now led to the owner-operators’ trade group asking Congress to amend a current federal law governing broker-carrier relations. In a letter sent Wednesday to all 535 members of Congress, Todd […]

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Good news for truckers: Ta-Petro begins reopening dine-in restaurants

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Story by: Alan Adler at FreightWaves.com   TravelCenters of America (TA-PETRO), (NASDAQ: TA) is slowly reopening dine-in restaurants at its travel plazas where allowed, but some changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic may never be reversed. “We have already undertaken rolling some locations on and we’re doing it in a prudent and self-disciplined way,” TA […]

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Amazon’s brokerage operation goes national

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Story by: Brian Straight at FreightWaves.com   As demand for goods from its own warehouses as well as third-party suppliers skyrocket, Amazon is expanding its brokerage division, first launched just a year ago. The e-commerce giant is now offering brokerage services in 48 states, a spokesperson confirmed to FreightWaves. Amazon’s shipper-focused website, freight.amazon.com, now says service areas include […]

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