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Voices
COVID-19 relief bill: Majority of owner-operators favor direct payment, small-biz assistance
Most owner-operators anchored behind support for working people as their top priorities for any eventual COVID relief/stimulus legislation out of Congress.
December 15, 2020
Voices
POLL: Have you/your business been approved for relief funding?
News emerged Thursday, April 16, that appropriated funding for the SBAâs Paycheck Protection Program COVID-19 relief had hit its limit with little more than a week and a half of taking applications. Did you apply to it or another program and achieve a result? Weigh in here.
April 16, 2020
Voices
POLL: Have you hauled in direct support of a natural-disaster relief/recovery effort?
Whatâs been your experience, such as it may be, hauling in support of immediate relief/recovery, and/or rebuild well after the fact, efforts after a natural disaster, whether a hurricane, flood, fire or another.
October 9, 2019
Business
Southeast inbound freight, volumes elsewhere, built as Dorian approached the coast
Spot rates, volumes were building as Hurricane Dorian approached the Southeast. The number of van, reefer, and flatbed loads posted from August 26 to Sept. 1 increased 7% compared to the previous week while capacity dipped 2.4% heading into Labor Day weekend. Market to watch: Washington apples.
September 4, 2019
Channel 19
Got room on the trailer? Driver-led group looking to coordinate available space for disaster relief
The Trucks With Room to Spare group was started at the instigation of Greenup, Kentucky-based trucker Shelli Conawayâs desire to assist areas hit by Hurricane Michael in Florida, an area she hauled to at the time. Toady, theyâre attempting to coordinate donated hauling with relief organizations in the flooded MidwestâŚ
March 20, 2019
Channel 19
Getting around âTruckermageddonâ; American Trucker season 2 âgets hardcoreâ
I-405 shutdown this weekend â the 405 will be shut down northbound in a 10-mile stretch between I-10 and U.S. 101.
July 14, 2011
Channel 19
Trucking continues coming to Joplin aid
The stories about relief efforts in Joplin keep coming in. Before I get to a couple more, I thought Iâd take a moment to note that I will be out of the office through June 7, though Channel 19 will continue to bring all manner of side routes and byways into the industry in my [âŚ]
May 27, 2011
Channel 19
Mission USAâs July I-75 âTour of Hopeâ
Ed Eubank, pastor of a nondenominational church in northwest Martin, Tenn., is hoping he can âmake a better connection with truckers so that we can better serve the people out there in genuine need.â Eubank, see, is also the primary man behind the humanitarians at Mission USA (www.missionusa.org), an organization providing relief to families and individuals displaced on the [âŚ]
May 19, 2010
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