Monthly Archive: May 2020

White House Honors Truck Drivers During Coronavirus

White House Honors Truck Drivers

Last month the White House honored truck drivers who continue to serve during the pandemic, calling them the “lifeblood of our economy.’’ “In the war against the virus, American truckers are the foot soldiers who…

Cummins Making Face Masks, DuPont Making Face Masks

Cummins, DuPont Making Face Masks

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, Cummins Inc. and DuPont are helping address the nation’s shortage of N95 respirator masks. Cummins’ NanoNet and NanoForce Media technology, which uses DuPont’s Hybrid Membrane Technology (HMT)…

Job Postings, Drivers Need To Sanitize Their Cabs

Drivers Need To Sanitize Their Cabs

According to officials at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), just about every surface inside a truck’s cab, even the door handles and glad-hands, can transmit the COVID-19 virus. Even though CDC stresses that physical…

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Recessions Often Draw Workers To Trucking

During previous recessions and regional downturns, trucking recruited workers laid off from other industries. That built freight supply just at the moment when aggregate demand was typically soft.
Consider what happened during two recent downturns…

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Pesticide May Disinfect Truck Cabs

A anti-microbial pesticide under consideration as a treatment for bed bugs is now considered an effective disinfectant treatment for trucks whose drivers have been confirmed as COVID-19 carriers, according to the American Trucking Associations…

Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act

Federal Relief Available For Trucking

With many small businesses across the country uncertain of how the COVID-19 outbreak will temporarily, or permanently, affect their bottom lines, the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act may offer…

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