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    Company fails to protect drivers from COVID-19, port truckers claim

    Date: March 16, 2021 | Author: | Category: Coronavirus|News|State|Courts

    A pair of California truck drivers filed a formal complaint Container Connection, alleging it failed to protect its drivers from COVID-19.

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    Feds move to get trucks COVID-19 shot

    Date: March 04, 2021 | Author: | Category:

    A federal agency indicates that a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine may soon roll out to truckers via truck stops, something OOIDA pushed for.

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    COVID-19 need-to-know info, brought to you by Land Line, OOIDA

    Date: March 01, 2021 | Author: | Category:

    Brought to you by Land Line, OOIDA’s COVID-19 resources guide compiles everything truck drivers need to know about COVID-19.

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    FMCSA extends COVID-19 emergency declaration through May 31

    Date: February 15, 2021 | Author: | Category: Federal|News|Coronavirus

    An emergency declaration providing truckers an unprecedented HOS waiver to help provide coronavirus relief will remain in place through May.

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    OOIDA to feds: Get COVID-19 vaccine to truckers

    Date: February 11, 2021 | Author: | Category:

    OOIDA urges the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prioritize truckers to get a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine where they frequent.

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    COVID-19 vaccinations: How is it going?

    Date: January 14, 2021 | Author: | Category:

    COVID-19 vaccinations are in the news constantly, but how is the overall effort going? Also, homeland security lists its concerns for 2021.

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    COVID-19 vaccine rolls out with truckers at the wheel

    Date: December 15, 2020 | Author: | Category:

    The COVID-19 vaccine rolls out with truckers at the wheel; breaking down the logistics of getting an entire nation inoculated. Plus, red-light cameras in Florida.

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    Take a number: COVID-19 vaccine rollout plans

    Date: December 10, 2020 | Author: | Category:

    It won’t be long before truckers are asked to take a number and get in line for a COVID-19 vaccine – the latest chatter surrounding...

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    DOT prepares for quick transport of COVID-19 vaccine

    Date: December 01, 2020 | Author: | Category: Federal|News|Driver Fitness|Coronavirus

    The U.S. Department of Transportation says it is making all the necessary preparations for a swift delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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    COVID-19 vaccine could be available to truckers in early 2021

    Date: November 25, 2020 | Author: | Category: Federal|News|Coronavirus

    A COVID-19 vaccine could be available to truck drivers and other essential workers in late January or early February.

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    Researcher highlights widespread implications of COVID-19 and trucking

    Date: November 19, 2020 | Author: | Category: Opinion

    Dr. Michael Lemke's research on long-haul truckers and COVID-19 draws from his experience as a former trucker driver himself.

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    COVID-19’s toll on trucking topic of next ‘Live From Exit 24’

    Date: September 18, 2020 | Author: | Category: OOIDA|Truck Shows|Coronavirus

    The next “Live From Exit 24” will focus on COVID-19 and its effect on trucking and how it forced the reimagination of events like GBATS.

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    COVID-19 testing expands as part of Ontario pilot program

    Date: August 01, 2020 | Author: | Category:

    Ontario’s provincial government launched a pilot program making it easier for truckers to access COVID-19 testing.

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    As COVID-19 cases rise, truckers share their stories of diagnosis and recovery

    Date: July 30, 2020 | Author: | Category: Opinion|Coronavirus

    As positive COVID-19 case numbers rise in the US pandemic stories from trucking industry professionals become more prevalent in the national spotlight.

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    COVID-19 hot topic in trucks, Congress

    Date: July 17, 2020 | Author: | Category:

    Two members of Congress want the U.S. DOT to speed up the march toward automated vehicles – in part, to help stem the tide of...

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    COVID-19: Survival for people, business

    Date: July 15, 2020 | Author: | Category:

    An owner-operator who survived COVID-19 is now fighting to full recover; meanwhile, pandemic uncertainty may slow the recovery for freight and rates.

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    Ontario pilot program expands COVID-19 testing for truckers

    Date: July 09, 2020 | Author: | Category: News|Coronavirus

    Ontario is launching a pilot program aiming to improve the accessibility of COVID-19 testing for the trucking industry at high-volume truck traffic locations.

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    Motorists who visited Topeka service area possibly exposed to COVID-19

    Date: July 08, 2020 | Author: | Category: Coronavirus

    If you visited the Topeka service area off of Interstate 70 on July 2-4 and are feeling under the weather, seek medical attention.

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    FMCSA offers discretion on drug, alcohol testing during COVID-19 outbreak

    Date: July 07, 2020 | Author: | Category: Federal|News|Coronavirus

    FMCSA issues a notice of enforcement discretion for motor carriers whose random drug and alcohol testing may be disrupted because of the pandemic.

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    COVID-19 hangs over rising rates

    Date: June 24, 2020 | Author: | Category:

    Freight and rates continue to climb ahead of the Fourth of July, but the question of rising COVID-19 cases hangs over the post-holiday future.

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    COVID-19 victim survives – and thrives

    Date: June 22, 2020 | Author: | Category:

    Land Line Now, June 22, 2020. Click on the play button to hear our latest podcasts. An owner-operator from southeastern Kansas who survived COVID-19 is...

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    How Gharmalkar LLC survived owner Anil’s bout with COVID-19

    Date: June 12, 2020 | Author: | Category: Features|Coronavirus

    hat happens when a small-business trucking company owner becomes too ill with COVID-19 to run his company? This is Anil Gharmalkar's story.

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    Effects of COVID-19 downturn on the truckload rates are murky

    Date: June 01, 2020 | Author: | Category:

    Because of the breadth of it, the coronavirus pandemic has hit supply chains like no other disruptive event in memory.

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    COVID-19: The drivers’ perspective

    Date: June 01, 2020 | Author: | Category:

    Land Line’s Wendy Parker shares the stories of four truck drivers and what they have gone through during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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    OOIDA to Sen. Wicker: ‘no place’ for drivers to fight COVID-19 on the road

    Date: May 15, 2020 | Author: | Category: Federal|OOIDA|Coronavirus

    Sen. Roger Wicker, chairman of the Senate committee that oversees transportation, had questions about COVID-19’s impact on trucking. OOIDA provided answers.

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