Trucking to Trump Admin: Help Keep Rest Stops Open
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:45 am
Washington, D.C. (News release) - The trucking industry is asking the Trump Administration and government leaders at all levels to assure America's trucks--carrying essential goods like food, water, medicine, and fuel--can continue to deliver the basic and vital necessities critical to mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic and its broad impact. "As governments consider public health decisions to limit travel, shelter in place, close public facilities and quarantine communities, we ask that you consider trucking with these specific policies," said Chris Spear, American Trucking Associations president and CEO, in a letter to President Trump and VP Pence. "Absent policies like these, it will be more difficult to ensure that the shelves are stocked and emergency supplies reach first responders and medical personnel," Spear said, citing the following policy imperatives:
As communities across the United States adapt to the unfolding pandemic, Americans are witnessing what truckers do each and every day, through good times and hard: Deliver those basic and vital necessities--food, water, fuel, medicine and health supplies--essential to daily living. ATA is calling Americans to join the call in saluting the millions of hardworking men and women throughout the trucking industry on the front lines in the country's fight against coronavirus.
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